Andy Matuschak

Prospects for consumer silent speech interfaces

Relatively soon—maybe in our lifetimes, maybe next century—we’ll have full duplex input and output links from our brains to computers. We’ll have synthetic telepathy. We may find ourselves ...

This Friday: live Q&A session (2022-07-22 @2PM PDT)

[Edit: oof, I accidentally recorded with no sound! Apologies! Thankfully, all who sent me questions came live, at least. We'll try something different next month…]

Hello, a...

The joyful surprises of user observation

I designed something new, and I’ve spent much of the past few weeks watching people use i...

First usable prototype for the new mnemonic medium: Shape Up

Making the demo/talk on the new mnemonic medium last month really helped me refine my ideas...

June office hours; seeking (in-person?) testers for new mnemonic medium prototype

Announcing office hours for June! Note that the first one is this Friday (2022-06-15 21:17:54 +0000 UTC View Post

May office hours (including one tomorrow—Fri, May 13)

Announcing office hours for May! Note that the first one is tomorrow, this Friday (2022-05-12 22:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Demo/talk: a new peritextual mnemonic medium

Last year, I worked with authors to test the mnemonic medium (i.e. Orbit) in a bunch of contexts beyond Quantum Country. And… it didn't work nearly as well! Since late last year I've been working...

Office hours tomorrow; prototyping sneak peak livestream

Hi, all! First, a timely reminder that the second April office hours is tomorrow (2022-04-29 04:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post

April office hours

Just sending out this reminder of office hours for April; note that the first one is this Thursday (2022-04-12 01:38:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Implicit practice - a sight reading parable

The best scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers I know pour themselves into their work. You couldn’t capture their working hours on a timecard. Their creative gears turn restlessly, and insight...

March office hours

Just sending out this reminder of office hours for March; note that the first one is tomorrow (2022-03-10 03:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Exponentials and forgetting in Quantum Country

Now equipped with several years of data and the results of several controlled experiments, I’ve spent the last few months making sense of what’s happening on Quantum Country. I’d like to disc...

February / March office hours; feedback/ideas?

Continuing the office hours experiment in February and March (2022-02-08 19:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Lessons from 2021

URL for the "official" public version of this post: https://andymatuschak.org/2021 

January office hours; tier experiments

Happy new year, all! The office hour experiments last month were intriguing enough that I'd like to experiment with twice-monthly office hours, at least for a few months. I'll alternate times to tr...

Tools for thought: science, design, art, craftsmanship?

“It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked worldwide.

2022-01-01 04:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Experimenting with "office hours" next week

I hope you all are having a peaceful and bright holiday season. This isn't one of my usual "letters from the lab"—more a time-sensitive invitation.

tl;dr: I'm holding "office hours" next Mo...

Quantum Country’s suspiciously flat forgetting curves

Since 2019, I’ve been running a series of randomized controlled experiments on Quantum Country readers. The main reason I haven’...