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the academic monk with a farmers heart
Book Review – Stoner by John Williams Stoner invites you to read slow because life moves quick. You savor this book and it distorts your feeling of time. A friend recently said the older she gets the more her life accelerates. My intuition when time flies is to respond with active change but our farmboy…
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the sun casts no shadow
notes on sam harris × tristan harris, making sense #469 There is an aftertaste which doesn’t go away. Like after eating garlic. It’s the resistance of someone telling you to stop playing with your favorite Toy. And coincidentally your favorite Toy is a Mini Atom Bomb. The Podcast “Escaping an Anti-Human Future” with Tristan Harris…
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reading the mind of god
notes on “the infinity machine” by sebastian mallaby I expected a book about artificial general intelligence. I got a book about a man who commits to protein structures the way some people commit to holy texts. I had known Google’s AI Space for the solid and flattering synthesis into Podcasts. Now I realize that its…
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Listening to Fire
What I Learned Building a Glove to Catch My Dreams I am still fresh to software engineering like an arctic fish is to tropical water. The successes and failures in my projects are still imaginary. I was surprised by the powerful effect of creating in reality. Cutting and burning my fingers and getting pleasantly dizzy…
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dream yourself clean?
quit fucking around. that’s my epiphany of the last few days. but without my newest insights into sleep science those words seem like betrayal. i fuck around and find out and that’s my excuse to smoke a lot of weed. can the positive effect of this be achieved in any more serious way? dream science…
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rabbit undresses zebra
a rabbit is a holy habit a rabbit thus is the spirit animal of the culture kids with actimel who grow up to find party swollen the rabit is the pleasure animal if the carrot is the vulture on the grill the zebra is a fancy horse the question what to wear brings it in…
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kinder cocaine
Tearing into that Kinder Surprise (überraschung-ei) foil as kids—that violent unwrapping—reveals more about our neural wiring than any calcified LinkedIn post about “embracing uncertainty” ever could. That moment before discovery isn’t cute; it’s fucking primal. Our adult brains chase that same hit through increasingly desperate channels: promotions, purchases, porn, whatever gets our synapses to twitch…
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shit bucket junkies
[Disclaimer: What follows is written by my shit bucket junkie alter ego not by me but yeah who is me.] We’re not in love with narrative—we’re in cold sweat of narrative withdrawal. The same cold grip you feel when six faces turn to you at dinner and you realize you’ve got absolutely nothing to say.…
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Sweet Spot or Sweet Trap?
Tension is the gap between expectation and reality. Most of us spend our lives saying “I want to be happy” on repeat, like stuck vinyl records. But what if complete satisfaction is actually our enemy? What if that tension—that delicious, frustrating gap—is exactly what drives us forward? The Archer’s Wisdom Strategy is the north star…
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