Freelance Writer
Specializing in Technology, Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
Publications and Articles
Commercial Publications
- “Getting Your Best Rate”
- How to maximize the rate you get from your clientele.
- Creative Party
- “What Writing Taught Me About Coding”
- A discussion of the parallels between writing and coding and the importance of iteration and
understanding the audience.
- Creative Party
- “Data-driven Willpower“
- What is willpower and how can our devices help us “increase” it.
- Banapana
- “The Language User Interface (LUI)“
- A very early speculation on the value of an artificially intelligent command line.
- Banapana
- "Kickstarting Education”
- How Kickstarter offers real potential value to teachers and their classrooms.
- Eduhacker article
Self-Published Articles
- "When Wrong Does Not Apply”
- Design is subjective; many designers in their critiques, miss this fact.
- Medium article
- currently 25K hits
- “To Photoshop or Not to Photoshop”
- Pixel-perfect design was never meant for web interfaces. The proliferation of new devices
proves it.
- Medium article
- currently 1.2K hits
- “Glasshouse, Symmetry and Facial Indication”
- The design of Google glasses underestimates the subconscious value humans put on symmetry in
faces.
- Medium article
- currently 2560 hits
Academic Publications
- Warner, Russell, Todd Stoess, and Patrick Shafto. "Reasoning in pedagogical versus deceptive
situations." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 32. No.
32. 2010.
Paper
- Warner, R.G, Shafto, P., Baker, C.L. & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2009). Abstract knowledge guides
search and prediction in novel situations. Proceedings of the 31st annual conference of the
Cognitive Science Society.
Paper
- Montague, Robert, et al. "To catch a liar: The effects of truthful and deceptive testimony
on inferential learning." Cognitive Science Society, 2011.
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