Andrei Stoica

What’s coming into focus more gradually is how bad things are getting for those of us in the audience, too . Something that’s long bothered me and Erin about the hegemony of streaming is that if you do away altogether with physical media, you put yourself at the mercy of corporate accountants (who might decide there’s insufficient R.O.I. when it... See more

Can ChatGPT turn the most horrible UI into a less horrible version in the ghibli universe? Here I present to you the Ghibli CRM 🙈🙈 https://t.co/zjOAUOuhEx

01. Fear of Being Wrong : Our decisions are often driven by Loss Aversion – the cognitive bias that makes us more afraid of failure than excited by potential success. In a world where a single misstep can get us “bollocked,’ we stick with what feels safe, even when it’s clearly not working.

Here is how Plutarch, classical biographer par excellence, described his attraction to the stories of great men:

We may say, then, that achievements of this kind, which do not arouse the spirit of emulation or create any passionate desire to imitate them, are of no great benefit to the spectator. On the other hand virtue in action immediately takes

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I’m in 3 weekly study groups (on governance systems, robotics, and distributed computing) with friends, run a serious book club that takes on fairly weighty reads, and am working slowly through a few courses (two electrical engineering courses from MIT Open Courseware). On the practical front, I haven’t done this much hands-on hacking, building,... See more

The concept of ‘deep time’ was first described in 1788 by the Scottish geologist James Hutton, although only coined as a term 200 years later, by the American author John McPhee. Hutton posited that geological features were shaped by cycles of sedimentation and erosion, a process of lifting up then grinding down rocks that required timescales much... See more