writer, programmer
humor
In a distracted attempt to write "Finding", I accidentally wrote "Fondong" and I paused in my tracks. Friends, I think "Fondong" may indeed be the funniest word ever written down on happenstance. In the The Beginning of Infinity, Deutsch talks about the universality of
humor
INT. YING-YANG MUSIC VIDEO SET - EVENING The actors take their places on set, an actress sits in the middle of empty set on a black couch, Ying Yang twins off set. Twin #1 is snoring in chair, is abruptly awakened by Twin #2 shaking his shoulder. Twin 2: Aye
Why did our ancestors develop agriculture, society, medicine, and the like? To survive. The elements of our world were once just solutions to fears. (Location 46) Very similar to the debunking David Deutsch did in The Beginning of Infinity about Spaceship Earth. The Earth is not a calm or peaceful
obsidian
Graph View Filter any tags in the to-process inbox (used in BHOV-2023) -tag:#to-process
tv
Although Sweeney is now becoming a household name, she’s been working in Hollywood for over a decade. When she was 12, she drafted a five-year career plan and presented it to her parents in a PowerPoint to convince them to let her work as an actress, according to
programming
i see a lot of programmer blogs inform people on the homepage that they "love coding". it's unnecessary to say that. by virtue of fighting through the insane difficulty that is getting working code shipped, you almost have to love it by definition. loving to code
social-media
When people become too successful, they often downplay their success in order to remain in good standing with those from whom they desire approval. This is what is happening with Elon Musk and his Twitter takeover, and it is a reminder of the 'Great Filter' for intelligent life to emerge.
entrepreneurship
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; (Location 871) pretty much the opposite advice of Taleb and Naval: The one thing
deep-life
But mandatory retirement came at age sixty-five . . . and so he retired. The next week he had a heart attack and died. (Location 1102) “Those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state,” said Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of
deep-life
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” was his response. “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” (Location 1149)
ai
I have aspired and failed multiple times to build a federated embedded search experience to data that is important to me. But when it comes down to it, I just want peace from the deluge of new items to process. I also am using the amazing new technology of Rewind
computer
“Computer multitasking in single core microprocessors actually involves time-sharing the processor; only one task can actually be active at a time, but tasks are rotated through many times a second.” (Location 2169) “Screwing up two things at the same time isn’t multitasking.” (Location 2180) Project MAC, the world’