Senior data scientist & engineer at Slack. Psychology PhD from Stanford. I build open-source research tools, productivity software, and write about data, cognitive neuroscience, and building things.
Current article
Shawn T. Schwartz, Haopei Yang, Alice M. Xue, Anthony D. Wagner
This article reviews recent advances in understanding how attention mechanisms shape episodic memory, examining neural substrates, oscillatory rhythms, age-related precision changes, and closed-loop experimental approaches to establish causal attention-memory relationships.
A look at the process, trade-offs, and philosophy behind building an app from scratch, and what I learned about constraint, incentive design, and building for real users as a solo developer.
An Introduction to this Blog and What to Expect
How the Rhythm of Our Focus Shapes Our Memories
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