It is a nice day in DC

most likely you will not get the most out of yourself by 996ing. generally that’s a way to destroy the self. I subscribe to the Ferris bueller’s day off theology that says you’ll probably get the most out of yourself by being maximally uninhibited so the universe sings with you

Lunch, brunch, Edvard Munch

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TIL that the subatomic particle of a quark was named so by Murray Gell-Mann as a reference to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

Incredible work

Most people are still running scarcity scripts from a world that’s already obsolete. What’s happening right now (in AI, in energy, in materials, in biology) is the shift from allocation to creation. But our political and cultural systems were built for managing scarcity: who

You know what I’m going to say…

There’s nothing I love more than a good blow-by-blow public debate between people who take their subjects seriously

It’s good that math is one of the two subjects taught from grade 1 through 12, and I think it should continue afterwards. I graduated from college 9 years ago, after doing math for about ~16 years straight of my life (wow). I'm beginning to really miss it. It feels like there

A feature of industrial revolutions and paradigm shifts is that it's often not clear at all where the revenues/profits will accrue Railroads? Nobody knew. Most people got it wrong. Internet? Nobody knew. Most people got it wrong. AI? Nobody knows...

Reflecting on modern education, I think there has been too much focus on “ways of knowing”, “critical thinking” and not enough on facts — dates, names, numbers. So much of contemporary sociopolitical discourse is marked by this: nuance upon nuance that paralyzes both writer and

it is, in fact, so easy

I keep getting emailed ads like this. I've been offered dozens and dozens of pairs of airpods. Maybe there's a play here: - Create lots of fake businesses (landing pages) - Aggressively get into all the business directories -- Apollo IO, etc. - Wait for the airpods calls - ebay

Californians should be deeply alarmed by the high electricity prices because the correlation elsewhere in the world is unmistakable: there are no rich/growing countries with high electricity prices

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