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We had a beautiful panoramic view of Constantinople, cats, and the other café customers.

There's something glamorous about how such remarks, which the author themselves seemingly didn't think much about, stick out from otherwise homogeneous points.

Here's a simple framework I use for improving the performance of your fav agent on (semi-)complex tasks.

Identity is this strange word, it means two opposite things: your identity is that which makes you unique and your identity is that which make you identical, the same as other people [in the group]

during the ecstasy, the lovely, the i-forgot-life-can-be-so-lively lovely

A counter for overthinking, "it is not that deep" has found a place in our culture.

Human resiliency fascinates me.

Some ideas get adopted by the mainstream, and inevitably lose nuance during the adoption.

At 30 years old, I am saddened that I beat all of my computer science students when it comes to AI workflows.

I have a British lad in my head going "bit bittersweet, innit?"

humans are really not built for first principles analytical thinking. even smart people find it incredibly exhausting.

In Q2 2026, you should either max out being a specialist or max out being a messy/composer/glue layer.

Links and notes from June 12, 2026.

They really thought they were cookin'.

Most advice on performance will only help you to get better incrementally.

consume guilt free, compound everything, recover faster from the inevitable crashdown.

AI has a new fool's trap each year.

phrases that never achieve anything, ever

I'm a MacBook snob, I have declined attractive job offers because they only allowed Windows machines for work.

the thing about living through history is, they don’t prepare you for how cringe it’ll all be

You take a hit, you focus on your breath, you let your mind run, the coffee tastes better, the cigarette burns up your throat in just the perfect way.

Zen's minimalist aesthetic is timeless.

The premise that even if we competed in China, that we're going to lose that market anyways… You're not talking to somebody who woke up a loser.

Or: What do you do, spiritually, with a psychopath roommate?

I just ran a marathon without real training.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love

My trick for getting out of the bed is to keep moving.

Knowledge is knowing your discarded toenails contain keratin, which in turn, contains nitrogen.

Two months until thirty.

i have tried prudent planning long enough

For me, eating oatmeal at lunch every day is almost a spiritual experience.

International flights, connect me to the Wi-Fi

Ozempic is the moment society stops pretending that discipline alone should govern the body.

A young man rushed to Nasreddin Hodja's house, breathless and wide-eyed.

In the theme of 2026 and new habits, here's what worked for me: the no days off principle.

Why giving good universal advice can be bad or I wish I could pre-filter psychopaths

Two tweets for twenty-sixteen

Two observations about how people interact with differing opinions they encounter:

I don't want to come across as negative, though I know some posts might read that way.

A common social media trope is posting advice from people on their deathbed.

Two simple observations and my own two cents

The classic explanation of growing bureaucracy inside an organization is that the people who benefit from the processes (i.e., bureaucrats) have an...

People flip out over rearranged or occupied desks at work.

We fetishize time, let's put it in a nice dress

You could see meditation as mental stretching: standard intellectual skills are like training for grip strength, you get better at grasping concepts, but...

You can never make any explanation that can be made in a more fundamental way in any other way than the most fundamental way.

My life changed when I learned what simple really means.

It is hardly possible to overrate the value, in the present low state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to...

Let me decide what's best for me

That "subscribe wherever you get your podcasts" is a miracle