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Koby Ofek

In defense of being an asshole

Jaron Lanier claims that I’m an asshole. I’m part of an asshole machine and I’m assisting in the production of little baby assholes. Chances are that you are too. It’s quite offensive to think of yourself as an a-hole. After all, my friends consider me…

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Koby Ofek

Getting Things Done

I started to re-read Getting Things Done on May 31, 2020. It was about 17 years after studying it for the first time. The first time around impacted me greatly. It changed my work habits in a time I was overflown with corporate work and…

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Koby Ofek

On Reading, Marcel Proust

I have countless memories of me reading. They interwind with each other. Some are more vivid. Others are vague. However, there is a certain cloak of reading that covers my childhood memories. I was cradled into reading. I have never been a good eater. I…

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Koby Ofek

This Snack Does Not Exist

This project is no longer active This little project creates random snack possibilities from food parts as our crawler found online, and grades them for plausibility of marketing success. The system can generate far fetched ideas such as "Robin Williams' lock of hair ice cream…

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Koby Ofek

What makes something a digital garden?

Lately I have been thinking quite a lot about digital gardens. For me a digital garden is a beautiful publicly available somewhat-curated partial snapshot of your brain. I'll try to go over my definition in parts to help myself and whoever reads this follow my…

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