Cabinet of Wonders

☞ Building a Historical Sense in Computing

Unearthing weird and fun facts from computing history

23 hrs ago • 

Samuel Arbesman

7

September 2025

☞ I Want More Risk-Taking in Philanthropy

More crazy bets please!

Sep 11

13

5

August 2025

☞ The Conspiratorial Mindset and AI's Latent Spaces

Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Artificial Intelligence

Aug 6 • 

Samuel Arbesman

18

3

July 2025

☞ Musical Perception in Fiction

Diegetic Music and its Delights

Jul 7 • 

Samuel Arbesman

9

5

June 2025

☞ "The Magic of Code" and the Humanistic Computation Project

More on the Humanistic Computation Project...

Jun 9 • 

Samuel Arbesman

13

2

May 2025

☞ Creating Organizational Edge Cases

Plus, "The Magic of Code" is out next month!

May 6 • 

Samuel Arbesman

18

3

April 2025

☞ "The Phantom Tollbooth" Was Supposed to Be a Nonfiction Book About Cities

Unexpectedness in Funding and Grant-Making

Apr 8 • 

Samuel Arbesman

27

3

March 2025

☞ The Orthogonal Bet: Season Two

And now on its own RSS feed!

Mar 5 • 

Samuel Arbesman

13

1

February 2025

☞ Milton's Rainbow

Colors, Language, and How We See the World

Feb 19 • 

Samuel Arbesman

13

2

January 2025

☞ The Humanistic Computation Project

A reading list for computing as liberal art

Jan 7 • 

Samuel Arbesman

20

December 2024

☞ Creating a Typeface: Humanist Computer

Type Design as Hobby and Tool Creation

Dec 11, 2024 • 

Samuel Arbesman

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8

November 2024

☞ Computation and Wonder, Soon in Book Form!

You can now preorder my forthcoming book "The Magic of Code"!

Nov 13, 2024 • 

Samuel Arbesman

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