5 simple ways to inject creativity into your life. buff.ly/Y7hTG57

Garry Tan A sizable bloc of American voters are in favor of Scandinavian-level taxes in exchange for Scandinavian-level social services. The rub: California and New York already pay Scandinavian-level taxes, without anything close to the same level of services provided.

Practice the art of small daily discomforts. Modern life is optimized for convenience and comfort. Your food can be delivered straight to your door. Your car seats can be heated. Your favorite show is available at the press of a button. We all enjoy convenience and comfort,

Late rise. Olympia Coffee cold brew in the sunshine with anne black and the doggos. St. Maximus the Confessor reading, what a dude. Manno down for a nap midday. Deadlift session top set 3x295#. Doggo walk. Making potatoes. Grandfather's birthday BBQ in the evening. Solid summer

From Scott Galloway's newsletter. One hell of an infographic. H/T Turney Duff

I've been lucky to live through this dynamic several times and it is magical to be a "native" in a new technology. In my just 10 weeks at my first internship after freshman year (at $150/week): • Setup the first PCs at local Martin-Lockheed office • Showed COBOL mainframe

Evolutionary science is and should be neutral with respect to the question of whether the process of evolution has a teleology. --John O'Callaghan hubs.la/Q03x1Rhc0

GitHub released Spark yesterday, their extremely well crafted prompt-to-app platform for creating and iterating on React apps with user auth and persistent storage I like it a lot! I reverse engineered it with Spark itself, the details are fascinating simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/gi…

Disciple: What then of the afterlife, Socrates? Socrates: What do I look like, the New York Times?

Your first side hustle isn’t making money. It’s education. Few will understand.

Boring. Impoverished view of humanity.

GS: "Predictions technology will reduce the need for human labor have a long history but a poor track record... while technology destroys jobs, it also raises demand for employees either directly in new occupations or indirectly via technology-driven increase in aggregate demand"

MCP Dev Days starts tomorrow! A two-day event dedicated to all things MCP with demos from Microsoft, GitHub, and the community - and you'll see plenty of Visual Studio Code in there too! Register now: aka.ms/mcpdevdays

YESSSS.... I got the photo of the Blue Angels screaming past the billboard on Rainier Ave in Seattle during their prqctice for their upcoming show for Seafair Weekend. THEY ARE STAYING FOR GOOD #SORRYNOTSORRY!!! Photo ©️ 2025 David Rosen/SlickPix Photography

New sweatshirts are in.

A tasty bijou: Big Gin, Dolin dry vermouth, Marie 🪴 orange liqueur (unparalleled), dash of Fee Brothers bitters, LUXARDO cherry. Best way to unwind with anne black after a three day work trip. ❤️

If I see one more AI therapist pitch, I will need therapy myself

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is

Courage isn’t an instinct; it’s a muscle built through consistent, values-aligned action. s.hbr.org/4my2qUl

Smelling a little bit of Autumn in the air and THAT IS NOT OKAY