# Honest Optimism with Spencer

> is there free breakfast here?

## Recent Posts

- [a letter to myself from 2020](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/letter-from-2020): dug up from a weekend in the archives of my college google drive
- [Money well spent](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/money-well-spent): Notes on tasting menus, egalitarian food, and a dinner at House Brooklyn 
- [5 quick takes on AI interfaces](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/five-ai-takes)
- [It makes me feel alive](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/it-makes-me-feel-alive): On presence, pain, and smiling during the New York City Marathon
- [On Type 1.5 Fun, Earned Fatigue, and a Weekend Backpacking in Yosemite](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/type-15-fun)
- [Excerpts from Steve Jobs' 1983 talk "The Objects Of Our Life"](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/objects-of-our-life): Prescient thoughts on the progression of human-computer interaction and new technology mediums
- [There’s no rule against that](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/theres-no-rule-against-that): On playing, working on projects with friends, and the Unisnap photobooth
- [In Search of Magic: AI Interfaces Beyond the Chat Box](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/in-search-of-magic): 3 promptless AI mobile app prototypes and other thoughts on UX Arbitrage
- [On Yakiniku, Status Dining, and Food Made For Care](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/yakiniku)
- [On Identity Formation and the Infinite Personalized Feed](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/on-identity-formation-and-the-infinite-personalized-feed): a mini essay 
- [Is the Music Still Playing and Other Rhetorical Questions on My Crypto Journey](https://paragraph.com/@spencer/is-the-music-still-playing): Can devs do something? Wen token?

## Blog Information

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