Derek Kedziora

I’ve spent the last week in Arizona.

The first time I heard a Llama Llama book being read was my wife reading the Ukrainian version to our daughter.

I recently listened to two completely unrelated Buddhist lectures that involved developing equanimity as an important part of Buddhist ethics.

The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?

It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping.

My daughter’s first birthday came and went.

The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion.

I’m back to thinking about constraints.

There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing.

A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to even write along with building and maintaining websites.

I’m in the market for a home battery, because it is soon going to be less profitable to sell electricity back to the grid in the Netherlands.