growing-up
Great Dining Room Table Books
also somehow a book for every type of boy: These books had no business being so good (View Tweet)
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math
Giving Numbers a Reality TV Drama
“I indulged in extravagant anthropomorphisms, just as I had earlier when it came to numbers, and I used to fancy, for instance, how three 37s yearned, just yearned, to merge to form 111. When it came to the elements, I felt sorry for the inert gases—they fascinated me perhaps
philosophy
Wittgenstein and Sacks
A simple life, a good one We venture next door to the Science Museum, in the vast interior vault of which we are immediately confronted by huge engines. “Wittgenstein loved it here, as did Auden. Wittgenstein could think of no afternoon more pleasant than one spent fixing a friend’s
love
Do Hippos Make Good Lovers?
We drift out of the invertebrates, through the Hall of Amphibians (“I loved Eryops: clumsy amphibians out of water who took on grace and ease once back in it.”) and presently into a room featuring a display of stuffed hippos. “Ah, my friends!” exclaims Oliver, rapt. “I used to have
humor
A better love story than Twilight
Bro was like never mind https://t.co/GxZ2ablrfn (View Tweet) A modern Greek tragedy. And still a better love story than Twilight Pairs well with literally any of these songs:
physics
Vortex Ring State
The vortex ring state (VRS) is a dangerous aerodynamic condition that may arise in helicopter flight, when a vortex ring system engulfs the rotor, causing severe loss of lift. The vortex ring state is sometimes referred to as settling with power. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sees these terms as
vc-culture
LLM Economics, LLC
Hypothesis: The unit economics of the machine learning space LLM 2020's startups are not similar to the social networking space in the mid-2000s. This will create a five year vacuum in VC's expecting returns Why? * Metcalfe's law is at play for people-run networks, but
computer
Do not put jpegs in the Hazel Compression Folder
do not put jpegs in hazel/screenshots folder lol 202212230034, it causes the whole thing to reset 202301150045 2023-01-16 00:33:48.129 hazelworker[61713] Processing folder Screenshots 2023-01-16 00:33:50.200 hazelworker[61713] 202A3B5A-CB81-4383-9F6F-0B2E4138CCFE.jpeg: Rule Compress matched. 2023-01-16 00:33:50.933 hazelworker[61713] [Error] Shell script
entrepreneurship
Should I write a book?
Open Question for 2023: Do I need a book if my published graph is impressive and deeply linked enough? Book pros: * a long standing market * most dense linear knowledge transporter in existence * paper + digital * author support * resilient to time * depth of a single topic Digital Zettelkasten Pros: * non linear * wild
psychology
Straightforward Communication
She said, in her muffled voice, “The happiest thing right now is, I learned to talk openly. It works really, really well. Today, you thought I didn’t want you to come to the Space Needle, so you made a face. That’s insanity. You have to tell everybody what
memes
Nobody Here Knows I
Some of my favorite examples of this format: (View Tweet)
tv
The Last of Us Thoughts
Episode 1 is there actually no cure for fungal mind control? how would it control a multiprocess organism w nervous system, circulatory, etc? I guess the brain does it with no problem so perhaps a fungus that could get low enough into the brain stem could force muscles to move,