Highlights
Books, articles, podcasts, and videos that shaped my thinking.
Books
“You will always be who you want to be"
Note: Given a limited time in life, you can either sit and think. FOREVER. Or, you can take action now.
Note: Neuroplasticity at work
Note: Neuroplasticity at work
Articles
1. The cure for overthinking is writing.
Let's start by clarifying what 2.4GHz actually means in the context of computer peripherals. It refers to a type of proprietary wireless technology called [USB-RF](https://www.howtogeek.com/429291/usb-rf-vs.-bluetooth-mouse-and-keyboards-which-is-better/), where devices like mice and [headsets](http://www.howtogeek.com/dont-buy-a-gaming-headset-buy-headphones-and-a-mic/) use a small USB dongle to connect to your computer. Unlike Bluetooth, this 2.4GHz connectivity is specific to each manufacturer. In fact, some manufacturers, like Logitech, have multiple 2.4GHz "standards" with varying levels of compatibility, but we'll touch on that later.
Fleeting notes are temporary notes.
Midnight Commander (or mc) is always the first tool I install after setting up a Linux system. It’s a powerful, full-screen, text-based file manager that makes it easy to navigate your filesystem, move or copy files, delete entire directories, search for files, and run commands in a built-in subshell.
**Be more consistent than most.**
One of the most common mistakes people make is not positioning their speakers at the correct height. If you primarily listen to music while seated, the tweeters should be at ear level. If you place speakers too high or too low, the sound may be directed above ear level or towards the floor, reducing the clarity and causing the sound to feel disconnected.
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.
If you were able to see into the black box of many enterprise systems, you would be shocked to find how much duct tape is holding things together. It often doesn’t take a lot to make things crumble. This is often down to time pressures to get things out of the door and not having the time to solve the hard legacy issues they might have.
But here's the thing: Artificial intelligence isn't yet (and likely won't ever be) conscious. This is despite the fact that a lot of people — especially those building the 'intelligent' machines — just want it to be. To that end: Why?
. In the 1960s, the US Department of Defense took interest in this type of work and began training computers to mimic basic human reasoning.
Humor offers psychological benefits, strengthening social bonds, reducing stress, and enhancing approachability.
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Claude can infer intent, but it can’t read your mind. Reference specific files, mention constraints, and point to example patterns.
Coding agents are changing how software gets built.
Another big part of this is making sure your AI has the best tools available.
Your Tweeter Matters
One of the biggest hurdles for soundbars is directionality. When an audio engineer mixes a film, they use the spatial arrangement of speakers to position each sound in the room carefully. A creaky floorboard might come from your left while a character’s voice echoes from behind you to create a sense of presence, as though you’re right there in the scene.
You'll find helpful links throughout the site for creating your own experiments, and you can also explore resources like WebGL Globe and our workshop of tool
Obsidian Bases allow you to create database-like views of your notes.
Customize your Obsidian Publish site's appearance using static assets like `publish.css`, `publish.js`, and favicons.
Agentic AI shines by smoothing out three common types of friction:
Apple announces that its long delayed ’smarter Siri’ will be powered by Google [[Gemini]]
Second, by separating frontend generation from frontend grading, we can create a feedback loop that drives the generator toward stronger outputs.
Oxytocin is sometimes called the "love" hormone and is associated with how people bond and trust each other. Certain activities like kissing, hugging and having sex can trigger the release of oxytocin in the brain.
During the Second World War, noted British computer scientist Alan Turing created the Enigma Machine, which could decipher German code.
Computer scientists also created a system that can be used to generate new educational games based on existing video games.
Step three, avoid anything even remotely uncomfortable or challenging. Everyone knows that growth requires some amount of discomfort, and if we're growing, that means things are getting better in some way.
It’s hard to overstate how overpowered feedback is. If you aren’t trying to get real feedback from people who know you, you’re cooking without tasting. This is among the lowest-hanging fruit for self-improvement, but few people really try to pick it.
In the morning, he is a creator, in the afternoon he’s a copier. Mindless tasks go later in the day. This is the single biggest change you can make to improve your odds of success.
If you clicked on this article just to find out what thock means, I don't blame you. The term gets thrown around a lot in the world of mechanical keyboards, sometimes even being used synonymously with "good."
How to write great documentation for your open-source project[
Scholars researching how people read can have expertise in a broad range of areas such as psychology, linguistics, semiotics, literary critics, vision sciences, and anthropology
I think we are on the cusp of an era in human history that is unlike any of the eras we have experienced before. And we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare. We don’t know what this will look like, what it will feel like. We don’t know how labor markets will respond. We don’t know which country is going to get there first. We don’t know what it will mean for war. We don’t know what it will mean for peace.
For any “disruptive tech”, there is friction. And AI is disruptive on many levels:
three key constraints of a project:
[[Codex]], [[Claude Code]], and [[Gemini CLI]] are all "agentic" coding CLIs that differ in maturity, openness, and workflow opinionation.
They need to also, importantly, convince others to give them resources to fulfil that vision.
**Prompt engineering is just "guessing strings" until something works**.
I’ve created dozens of MOCs in my [[vault]], and I’ve learned a lot. One of my favorite ways to build a MOC is by using this single-line [[Dataview|Dataview]] query:
Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
Subagents are pre-configured AI personalities that Claude Code can delegate tasks to. Each subagent:
• All processes have a core of complexity that cannot be designed away and therefore must be assumed by either the system or the user.
[What This Means for Zed](https://zed.dev/blog/acp-registry/#what-this-means-for-zed)
Note: "Eppur si muove." (interjection/phrase): "And yet it moves" — a defiant claim that reality or truth persists despite denial; used to assert independence or stubborn adherence to fact 🌍💫
The bootcamp model worked because it was a pipeline into "training on the job" positions. You'd learn enough to be productive on day one, and companies would invest in developing you further. Junior developer roles were abundant. The expectation was that you'd learn the missing skills over the years of professional practice.
*Slow Productivity* makes the argument for a different understanding of productivity. It is less centered on checking off items on a to-do list, and more focused on doing work that will build a legacy.
> The browser asked: *“How do we let untrusted code run safely?”*
Here is a script that opens Google Chrome using the Ctrl+Alt+G shortcut:
The tiny DJI Mic Mini has incredible audio and just enough features to make it a near-perfect choice for the creator and influencer.
A human makes the same error a few times. Eventually they learn not to make it again. Either because someone starts screaming at them or because they're on a genuine learning path.
==On Sunday, Ukraine's national security adviser Rustem Umerov said delegations reached a 'common understanding on the core terms' after Geneva talks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.==
People will recommend [Playwright MCP](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp) or [Chrome DevTools MCP](https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp) for the use cases I illustrated above. Both are fine, but they need to cover all the bases. Playwright MCP has 21 tools using 13.7k tokens (6.8% of Claude's context). Chrome DevTools MCP has 26 tools using 18.0k tokens (9.0%). That many tools will confuse your agent, especially when combined with other MCP servers and built-in tools.
Most plans offer a second tax-savings option. This is commonly known as Roth.
The basic process goes a little like this:
common counter-argument to pro-privacy movements is the notion that one doesn't need privacy if they have **"nothing to hide."** This is a dangerous misconception, because it creates a sense that people who demand privacy must be deviant, criminal, or wrong.
They need to also, importantly, convince others to give them resources to fulfil that vision.
Docker is designed as a software development tool and a tool for system administrators to deploy software to their infrastructure. That doesn't make it difficult to use, but it does mean there's a bit of a learning curve, and most tasks require using Docker from the command line.
Podcasts
**AI Washing Makes Layoffs Harder To Read**
**AI Takeoff Is Reaching A Tipping Point**
**Mainstream Must Disavow Extremists**
**Relaxation Improves Performance**
**Design Thinking For Life Wayfinding**
**Four Million Person Risk Taking Gene Study**
**Early Warning About Social Media And Email Overuse**
**How Manipulators Warp Reality Confidence**
**How Outrage Became A Scalable Media Hack**
**Oxytocin Creates Selective Compassion**
**Why Baumeister Says Cultures Exploit Men**
**How Phil Collins Turned Betrayal Into Two Hits**
**Why Self Awareness Feels Like A Poison**
**Wealth: Getting vs. Keeping**
**The Power of Obsession**
**Limits of Human Intelligence**
Is Terminator Coming?
Towards Generalization, I think it's a Good Idea
The Art of the Maximized Life
**Simple Doesn't Mean Ordinary**
Mojo programming language improves AI accessibility and usability.
**Mackey's Regret**
**Mackey's Regret**
**From Wartime Budapest To Early Hustles**
**Living With An Imposed Identity**
**Sam Hinckley Quit Bain To Build A Sports Analytics Career**
**From Bronx Public Housing to Congress**
Scaling laws suggest linearly scaling network size, training time, and data improves model performance.
**DeepSeek Models Overview**
**Linked List Epiphany**
**Left vs Right Ideals**
**How Communication Tech Dug Us Into A Social Hole**
**Humble Beginnings in Chennai**
**Berlin-Munich Drug Divide Shaped Politics**
**Dark Traits Are Continuous**
**Pick Coding Tools By Control Level**
**One-Hour WhatsApp Prototype**
How to Survive a Startup Culture
Investing in Cryptocurrencies
**Control, Standards, and Loneliness**
**Misunderstanding Strategy**
**Offline Advantage Wins In The Age Of AI**
**Remote Work Benefits**
**Communication as a Skill**
**Difficulty Understanding Emotions**
**Happiness vs. Success**
**Digital Economy Ascends, Industrial Declines**
**Cosmic Relevance and Resilience**
**Understanding Speciation and Species**
**Reason Is Built For Persuasion Not Truth**
**OpenClaw Used As Telegram Companion**
Memecoins have no inherent value; their worth is driven by hype and jokes.
**Ski Trip Footage**
**Ruthless 20x Quota Rule**
**Automation Expands The Engineering Pool**
**Autonomous Agents Are The Tsunami**
**Incumbents Have Durable Moats**
Product management is the combo of art and science
**Skills Unlock Hidden Productivity**
**Agent As A Reactive Loop**
**Listen Through The Hijack Moment**
**Germany's Strategic Vulnerability**
**Productized Services Over Agencies**
**How Coffee Trading Works**
**Censored Return: Banned Website And Fear**
**Meta's Open-Source AI Plea**
**AI Shrinks Intelligence Haystacks**
**Diapers.com Acquisition**
**Skills Turn AI Workflows Into Portable Assets**
**AI Doomerism Sensationalism**
**Why American AI Sentiment Is So Negative**
Duolingo's mascot, Duo, was killed off in a Cybertruck crash in a TikTok video posted by the CEO.
**How A Climate Startup Pushed Karen Hao Into AI**
**Capital-Driven Capability Flywheel**
A Song, She's Alive On The Love Below
**December Marked The Agent Workflow Flip**
**The Mellon Approach to Wealth**
**Thomas Mellon's Inspiration**
**Anthropic Turned Coding Into An Enterprise Wedge**
**Roomba's Troubles**
**Anthropic's Big Bet On Scale And Growth**
**Davos Encounter With Gavin Newsom**
**AI Agents Running Overnight ML Research**
**Attention Peaks During Transition**
**Take Ownership of Communication**
**Capability ≠ Instant Societal Change**
**AI As A Source Of Geopolitical Power**
**Wealth: Getting vs. Keeping**
**Gaming As The Internet's Anchor**
**Bond Market Signals Fiscal Trouble**
**Happiness as Virtue**
**Short-Form Video Shrinks Attention**
**Choose Investors Who Help, Not Meddle**
**Snipd on Apple Watch**
**Convergence Will Boost Global GDP**
**Borderline Content Drives Political Influence**
**Origin Story of ChatGPT Codex**
**The Ultimate 10-Step Money Allocation Framework to Build Wealth**
**Happiness vs. Life Satisfaction**
**Why AI Could Create Millions Of Tiny Businesses**
**Big Blob Of Compute Explains Progress**
**AI Amplifies Work, Not Replaces It**
**File Search Removes RAG Infrastructure Burden**
**DeepSeek's Impact**
**Quitting Work To Spend Final Months Together**
**Delhi Summit Photo Op Overshadows Policy**
**Austerity In Vogue**
**Gracias' DOGE Role**
**Four Pieces of Advice**
**Control Yourself First**
**iPhone Apps Reopened As A Big Opportunity**
**Use Real Robots To Close Sim-To-Real Gap**
Is This What They Want?
**Early Encounters With Epstein**
The Unmistakable Creative
**How Resistance Training Drives Hormones**
**Errors Drive Plasticity**
**Morning Wake-Up and Light Exposure**
**Brain Plasticity and Sleep**
**The Galleries Lafayette Incident**
**AI Fear Messaging Is Becoming A Strategic Liability**
**Jason's Sperm Check**
**Managing Reactions for Respect**
**SaaS Fear Is Over-Extrapolation**
**Neural Networks Beat Logic AI**
**Iran Conflict Is Far More Uncertain Than It Looks**
**Grok's Performance Ceiling**
**H‑1B Fee Forces Market Repricing**
**AI's Usability Changes Perception**
**Lukianoff's Origin Story**
Kevin Roos dropped his phone onto a subway platform.
**Matt Mahan's Path From Watsonville To Governor Run**
**Scott's FTX Bankruptcy Win**
**Jason Lemkin's AI Body Double**
**Davos As A Global Reality Check**
Most people pursue unconscious goals instilled by parents and society, hindering their personal fulfillment.
**Need for a Rule Book**
Bob McGrew joined OpenAI to learn deep learning after realizing robotics wasn't ready for startups.
**Learning Is Now AI-First**
**Remote Control Changes The Mental Model**
**Friendship with Trump**
**Asymmetric Risk And Portfolio Power Law**
**Colin and Samir Interview**
ADHD is diagnosed based on 18 symptoms, 9 inattentive and 9 hyperactive-impulsive.
**Abdi Aziz Joined Uber To Survive The Taxi Collapse**
**Why Inference, Not Models, Is the Hard Problem Now**
**Design For The Next Model**
**Premonition About A Social Network For AI Agents**
**Operation Focused On Disarming Not Prolonged Regime Change**
**Why Internal AI Wins Can Still Mean Falling Behind**
**War Lacks Clear Objectives And Political Oversight**
**Short Sharp Conflict Narrows Economic Damage**
**Markets Move On AI Narratives Not Facts**
**Separate Impact From Capability**
**Curved Monitor Inspiration**
**Long-Term Greed**
**Macroeconomics Shape Tech Investing**
**Naval's Twitter Origin Story**
**NVIDIA Became An AI Factory**
**Eurasian Expansion Drivers**
**Limits of Human Intelligence**
Unmistakable Creative Back Stage Pass
**Why PCP Drives Human Influence**
**Democratization of AI**
**AI Became Real After Decades Of False Starts**
**Three Colliding Historical Forces**
**Run Companies To Real Revenue Before Scaling**
**AI Overreach Eroded Windows Trust**
**Irritation Leads to Innovation**
**Wealth, Money, and Status**
**Model Training as Art**
**Super Bowl Sparked Massive Interest**
**OpenAI's Contract Leak Forced Rapid Damage Control**
**Local Agents Unlock Real-World Power**
**Context Is Decision Grade Knowledge**
**Technology Restored American Deterrence**
**Early Bets That Shaped Tech Paths**
Max Levchin's grandparents, both physicists, survived WWII due to their defense work, sending them to Siberia.
**How Peter Yang Uses Zoe As A Personal Agent**
**Epstein's Financial Leverage Explained**
**Most Doctors Use AI For Admin Work Not Diagnosis**
**Build With Tools Instead Of Debating Them**
**Midjourney Advancements**
**Five Forces Driving National Decline**
**Reconciling Political Differences**
The Next Level of Human Existence
**Private Markets Have Reallocated IPO Returns**
How Do You Navigate Human Relationships?
**Vertical Stack Powers The Mission**
**Value Creation in Tech**
**Agentic Engineering Rewrote Programming**
**OpenClaw Exposed Agent Power And Peril**
The Short History of Enterprise Architecture
Siqi Chen joined Zynga as a Director of Product after his company was acquired.
**Embrace Imperfection's Beauty**
**Market's Shift From When To If For AI Risk**
**AI Built A Complete App By Itself**
**Big Labs Push AI Video Into Feeds**
**Why A SpaceX IPO Could Enable A Tesla Merger**
**Price For What Customers Will Pay**
**Nonverbal Cues for Warmth**
**Dopamine Drives Future Anticipation**
**Fentanyl Crisis and Tariffs**
**Tech Stock Impact**
**How Kepler Turned Bad Guesses Into Real Laws**
**Ingenisoft: Early Natural Language Interface**
**Iterative Development Process**
**Jensen's Favorite**
**Performance Versus Vibes Will Decide Adoption**
**Influencer Deal Turns Into Moral Doubt**
**Shopper Overwhelmed By Hidden BNPL Debt**
**General New Year's Practices**
**Universities Need New Funding Mix**
**OpenAI's Real Bottleneck Is Adoption Not Models**
**Agentic Workflows Collapse The Software Lifecycle**
**Agents Act Like Colleagues**
**Recursive Self Improvement Without Retraining**
**Juries Found A Side Door Around Section 230**
**AGI's Capabilities and Potential Impact**
**Tariff Announcement and Market Reaction**
**Overcoming the Fear of Quitting**
**Validate Ideas with Waiting Lists**
**Claude Used In Military Analysis Despite Supply Chain Concerns**
**Father's Discouragement and Unspoken Love**
**Anthropic Versus The Pentagon Over Military Use**
**Pentagon's All‑Lawful Uses Demand**
**Claude Code's Rapid Rise From Side Project To Core Revenue**
**The Piano Sales Pitch**
**Nvidia Signals Demand at Unprecedented Scale**
**Widespread Public Skepticism In The U.S.**
**Floating Hole-in-One Golf Business**
**Use Liquidation Reselling To Learn With Low Risk**
**Missed Opportunity**
**AI Shifted From Chatbots To Agentic Systems**
**Surprise Plumbing Charge**
**Larry Page's AI Ventures**
**ChatGPT Met A Rate-Hiking Cycle**
**Eliminate Distractions**
**Pokemon Go Pivoted Into A Mapping Data Goldmine**
**NVIDIA's Strategic Expansion Potential**
**NVIDIA Pushing Accelerated Computing As The Default**
**Body-Related Service Businesses**
The Cost of Extending a Model
**Summit Chaos Behind The Scenes**
**Trump Phone's Conflict Potential**
**US Export Controls on AI Chips**
**Tariffs' Limited Impact on AI**
**Netanyahu Pushed The War Not U.S. Strategy**
**AI as Secondary Literature**
**AI as Secondary Literature**
**Understanding Financial Decisions**
How to Get Extremely Strong Activation of a Neural Circuit
**Passenger Trapped In Looping Robo-Taxi**
**Silk Road Story**
What Do You Learn From Your Parents?
**Val Kilmer Returns Through AI in Final Film**
Anthropic's Economic Index analyzes actual AI usage logs instead of relying on surveys.
**Besties visit the White House**
**Intersecting Tech Waves**
**White Collar Panic Misses A Broken Pipeline**
**Moldbook Went Viral Then Got Hired By Meta**
**LLMs Lack Continual Learning**
Videos
AI augmentation systems should amplify human capabilities rather than replace human judgment and decision-making in workflows.