If you're not familiar with the CMU DB Group you might want to check out their eccentric teaching style [1].
I absolutely love their gangsta intros like [2] and pre-lecture dj sets like [3].
I also remember a video where he was lecturing with someone sleeping on the floor in the background for some reason. I can't find that video right now.
Not too sure about the context or Andy's biography, I'll research that later, I'm even more curious now.
I used to do this too but soon I realized I wanted my phone for payments (say, coffee) and/or unlocking public bikes (like Lime).
Now I have 2 phones:
- Phone A with my SIM, internet, payment cards, but unlogged from any internet account
- Phone B, no SIM, usually connected to Phone A via hotspot, with email, messaging apps, logged into hacker news and everything.
When I want to take an offline walk/ebike-ride I only bring Phone A with me.
> We have a sense of what we would most love to do but we immediately push it aside. Why? Typically because “it is not realistic” which is code for, “I can’t make money doing this.”
I see more and more blog posts that contain interactive elements. Despite the general enshittification of the average blog and the internet, this feels like a 'modern' touch that actually adds something valuable to the sufficient ad-free no-popups old blog style.