Weekly Links Thurs June 25th, 2026
https://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Talks/RCI-110213/index.html
I find this so cool.
A U of T prof made this PDF viewer where you can designate sections of the PDF as "slides". A camera/viewpoint above the plane of the PDF pans in/out and slides across the page in one smooth motion to the next slide when you click the next key.
It's very fun to view in and of itself, and ✨ so meta ✨ because this specific PDF is an explainer of the math used to calculate the camera's path.
https://role-confusion.github.io/
Blog post style writeup of a paper - one of the most interesting papers I've read recently.
https://pointingatthings.substack.com/p/questions-that-make-people-say-things
In conversation, I try really hard to make space for people to share things on a deeper level than is common.
(For example to talk about something they find fascinating, or to be especially vulnerable).
This is a list of questions (not written by me) that you can ask people to make this happen.
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