Tried a textual podcast about organoids with @aneeshsathe.com. Also had Bompa (an AI persona) contribute based on a D20 roll. Promising format that could manage to capture the deliberate nature of long-form writing and the informality of trad. podcasts. roamresearch.com#/app/kinocom...

Sharing is this easy.

Technology and globalisation massively reduced daily physical load for large segments of the world. AI is potentially reducing daily cognitive load for large segments of the world. Q: Will we see the same chronic decay in our evolved cognitive capabilities? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

While reading about the origins of international law, I learned about Grotius’ and his wife’s ingenious escape plan—receive trunks of books, get sent out in said trunk. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...

Putting together a list of “pilgrimages” for my site. Basically, unreasonably long texts. Whereas "quake books" instantly and irrevocably alter one's inner landscape, "pilgrimages" are long and toilsome initiatives undertaken mostly on faith in the transformative power of the journey itself.

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Old but scary article. Expect it’s even worse now, across many more sports. How does the cycle get broken, though? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Today’s reading is Kleptopia, about the swirling undercurrents of capital amidst the world of high finance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptopia

For some reason, sync engines feel like a Whiteheadean advance in tech. They sweep away a whole bunch of distributed systems problems in a way that feels more substantial than elegant abstractions. electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04...

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” But when everything is a meme, the timeline ain’t that long. At all.

Today’s reading is Kafka on the Shore. Just one book across fiction and non-fiction for a few days, and it’s actually quite pleasant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...

The Simple and Sinister training protocol is GOATed—100 swings and 10 TGUs. Straightforward, quick, flexible. For optimal experience, do under a bright blue sky. www.strongfirst.com/tag/simple-s...

Came back to this a few times over the last week. www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

Went for some fiction for this AM’s reading—Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Murakami’s prose always gets me with its blend of directness and aching beauty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...

Finished The Math Academy Way this AM. Real nice meta-review of what it takes to accelerate talent development. justinmath.com/books/

New podcast queue approach I’m enjoying: don’t save episodes to listen to later. Instead, only one saved episode allowed and that episode must be listened to immediately. In practice, follow a bunch of interesting/reliable shows and choose an episode in the moment after very quick browsing.

Looking for keystone reads on reducing complexity in software engineering. Blogs and essays, not books. To me, reducing complexity means removing non-essential capabilities and/or adding graceful abstractions. What’s the prior art on this?

Reading about cognitive learning strategies in The Math Academy Way. Realised that these ideas are starting to infect how I think about my learning in basically every area. justinmath.com/books/

Not into high finance at all but this seems like a neat approach. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This AM: read some more of The Math Academy Way—and then did my daily math. justinmath.com/books/

This week has started strong: ZACH LOWE IS BACK.

Big tech’s relation to attention-as-resource is similar to how states relate to wind-as-resource? open.spotify.com/episode/0ZIJ...

Wild. On how one can come to own the wind. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NBA YT is usually trolling when they title “MUST SEE” and “WILD” endings—not this time. youtube.com/watch?v=B5xt...

Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! might actually be required reading for how to orientate in this increasingly sloppified, intensely memetic cultural moment. austinkleon.substack.com

“But the web is now 18 years old. It has reached adulthood.” web.archive.org/web/20240522...

Gobbling up neural data makes sense on one hand, but I also can’t help thinking that it seems like a little bit of a tarpit idea. “Just a little more data and we’re good.” … “No, just a tad more, I swear that’ll solve it.” … “C’mon, we’re almost there.” www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

Taking a spin through JS’s Advice on Upskilling and The Math Academy Way. Helpful right now as I’m trying to advance a bunch of skills in parallel—computing, entrepreneurship, BJJ, math, climbing. justinmath.com/books/

Imagine human bodies grown without complete brains, without consciousness. These are "bodyoids." And today in MIT Technology Review, researchers from Stanford University are ready to talk about them. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1...

Braudel’s Civilisation and Capitalism? Done. Newfound appreciation for the consistent & compounding ingenuity-at-scale of humanity across millennia & a renewed appreciation for how the forces of capital, labour, tech & ecology entangle & perpetuate one another. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...

Folks, this is going to be big: “Hype Studies is an emergent, transdisciplinary research arena aimed at inquiring hype as a powerful and pervasive phenomenon that influences economic trends, political agendas, media narratives, and technological developments.” hypestudies.org

If the model doesn’t match the reality, then the model’s the issue. I think this goes for the analytics movement in the NBA. Not everything can be quantified and optimised. And within that “everything” there’s probably gonna be some critical factors. youtube.com/watch?v=3G5k...

👀 “What the global moment calls for is neither accelerators, nor brakes, but steering technologies... World logics based on fundamentally new principles and ideas that comprehend the chaos well enough to allow us to govern and steer.” protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/sop-2025-a...

Kinda like experiments involving blind wine tasting—stuff like this makes me sceptical of the whole “taste is the final frontier in a super-abundant world” shtick. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read more Braudel today—this time on the rise and decline of Amsterdam. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...

Is something like Spacetime… spacetimedb.com

“A new question tends to erase its own origin; it is hard to imagine that there ever was a time when the question was not there. The effort immediately shifts to figuring out the answer to the new aspect of reality illuminated by the question.” genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

TIL from Braudel that Antwerp and Genoa were influential in the development of Europe. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...

“Relax to win”—perennial truth of peak performance. www.espn.co.uk/mma/ufc/stor...

Reading about Venice’s rise and decline in Braudel’s epic trilogy this morning. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...

Deep Research products should return a knowledge graph plus context rather than text walls. Interactive artefact > low dimension consumable. Agentic Deep Graph Reasoning Yields Self-Organizing Knowledge Networks arxiv.org/abs/2502.13025

“Fixing our trust infrastructure, in other words, requires fixing our data infrastructure.” - @arnaud.bsky.social gestalt.cafe/trust-infras...

Handy movement sessions to try out. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Wondering: can one stitch together cross views to make a 3D movie? moultano.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/y...

We’re doing moon stuff again apparently. fireflyspace.com/missions/blu...

New post: Visual programming is stuck on nodes-and-wires. All the node-and-wires visual languages assume we figured out the function part, and all we have to do is layer visuals on top of languages we already have. What if there was a different way forward?

A new version of Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. + Summary stats and streaks + Compound search queries + URL clean-up + Import and export Head to the site to see it in action and/or get access right now. subset.network

Oh no—I’ve been application-specific device pilled. l sincerely want a DC for reading ebooks and doing math. daylightcomputer.com

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - The Perspective of the World- University of California Press Onto the final volume of this epic trilogy. Shaping up to be the best yet. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...

Young [Plural Improper Noun] Are Using [New Technology] for Everything, Giving Blank Stares When Asked How [Lower Level Abstractions] Actually Work futurism.com/young-coders...