I'm joining Anil Dash in expressing my dislike for email forwards. These chain letters and recycled jokes were a constant annoyance in 2001, and I completely agree that they need to stop cluttering our inboxes.
I explore why currency forwards are not unbiased estimators of future spot rates but function instead as certainty equivalents. This distinction clarifies risk-adjusted forward pricing and connects financial valuation concepts to the Kelly criterion principles.
I never saw the point of forwarding joke emails. Instead of cluttering inboxes, I prefer visiting curated archives like rec.humor.funny to find the best content without the repetitive chain message spam.
I link to evidence of MSN intentionally sabotaging the Opera browser by serving it malformed CSS. This anti-competitive browser sniffing forced Opera users into a broken layout to encourage switching to Internet Explorer.
I curated a collection of classic science jokes and puns, including Lewis Carroll's witty take on the branches of arithmetic. This archive covers humor across physics, biology, and math for fellow enthusiasts of academic wit.
I turned my email into an AI agent, "Ask Anand's AI," to answer internal questions using my personal data and tools. This improves responsiveness, provides better answers, and helps nudge organizational AI adoption by leveraging trusted human interfaces.