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I’ve been trying to put words to what makes some people so good at thinking through product problems.

I ran across this YouTube channel called The Sagegazers, which uploads what seem to be archival recordings of obscure ambient and new age cassette tapes, mostly from the 1980s.

Ordinary Abundance This simple narrative timeline walks you through the sheer number of inventions that we take for granted every single day.

In a recent episode of EconTalk, with guest author Stewart Brand, Stewart had a throwaway line I loved.

This piece from Kevin Kelly is both an interesting future-look at what LLMs may have in store for us (with Kevin's typical energizing optimism), and a great layman's primer on what the tech itself is actually doing — on how LLMs work in general.

A good reminder from The Culturist to spend more time creating new things than consuming from others.

Watch video Orson Welles discusses making Citizen Kane at age 25.

Just read this take from Elad Gil: AI will eat closed loops first AI will first automate away the things that are easier to form a closed loop learning system on.

An interesting piece from Joseph Heath that compares the opposed theories on the origins of human intelligence posited by Yuval Noah Harari and Joseph Henrich: What makes the field of human evolutionary theory so interesting right now is that, deep down,…

Kids don’t need their every moment curated.

Tyrell's owl.

With AI-generated work — writing, visual art, music — there's something missing that we can often identify viscerally (at least if we spend a few minutes paying attention), though not articulate exactly what it is that's missing.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

I read a lot, and most of what I read flows through Readwise.

Michael Whelan's inspiring cover art for Arthur C.

Watch video Father/son duo Brian Owens and Thomas Owens, Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come."

C.S.

10M Search an archive of artworks by mood, feeling, style, or similarity.

How I Take Notes in the West End of Toronto Vin Varma's thoughtful notes on his note-taking process.

Flexport Atlas Flexport built a slick app for visualizing global shipping and rail traffic.

The latest issue of Res Extensa draws parallels between the story of Ford and Rolls-Royce and Stewart Brand's framework of Low Road and High Road design, from How Buildings Learn.

The Initiation Well at the Quinta da Regaleira estate in Portugal.

Using a combination of Claude, Opus, Nano Banana, and lots of satellite imagery, Andy Coenen built this incredible pixel art map of New York City.

Mysticism keeps men sane.

The folks over at Every published this excellent guide to a new paradigm for software, using what they call "agent-native architecture."

Luca Dellanna on Resistance: The point is that going to the gym is an activity, like many others, where you can technically produce its inputs in a negative mental state, but they won’t be good enough to bring satisfying results unless done with confidenc…

I started out the year with the goal to run 1,000 miles.

What the American Constitution established was not simply a particular system but a process for changing systems, practices, and leaders, together with a method of constraining whoever or whatever was ascendant at any given time.

In today's accidental internet discovery, I ran across the "gulet", a two-masted style of sailboat from Turkey.

But the strongest prop of American order, Tocqueville found, was their body of moral habits.

For the rest, we should look for the improvement of society, as we seek our own individual improvement, in relatively minute particulars.

We're deep into 3D printing over here after getting a Bambu Lab P2S for Christmas.

Software builders already spent quite a bit of time on the terminal.

Watch video Herbie Hancock on his introduction to Miles Davis.

My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file Jeff Huang writes about his 14 year old productivity system of simply using an ever-growing single text file to house everything.

In a wealth of information there is a poverty of attention.

Leuven Town Hall.

I ran across this documentary about the making of a Steinway grand piano.

Science is organized knowledge.

As I was reading this article from Ted Gioia the other day, I noticed in this image he used a logo I recognized: This is Hollywood Boulevard from the 1930s.

Jonah Goldberg with one of his classic broadsides against our broken primary system: People hate on “smoke-filled rooms” because they think such venues give the rich and powerful undue influence over the nominating process.

Watch video Return to Forever, Live from Jazzaldia San Sebastian, 2008.

Watch video Wes Montgomery, Live in '65.

Watch video Ahmad Jamal live in France, 1971.

OpenAI launched a major update to Sora yesterday.

Iain McGilchrist: Who does not now find themselves constantly busy?

Humongous Fungus In LibertyRPF's latest newsletter, he makes brief mention of the "Humongous fungus", an Armillaria ostoyae fungus that covers roughly 2,385 acres of Oregon forest, and weighs an estimated 35,000 tons.

The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre, but no discernible circumference.

I've been diving back into Alexander's A Pattern Language the past few days.