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@ayokanme
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muizz
ayokan.me
The 4-Hour Life
lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com
How much of a constraint is consistency space on agency?
The 4 hours aren't always 4. The energy you have in those 4 hours isn't always the same.
In payoff space, you can focus your energy for bursts of effort. Or you can focus your recharge/recovery times around your work.
The availability of rest after work likely affects how hard one is able/willing to work. The allure of rest is likely different.
Rest as an escape from work vs Rest as a place to prep for work
Athletes will perform differently in teams depending on if the system is built around them or they are recruited for the system; if the level of pressure is suited to their person; and if the coach is willing to be patient for them to adapt to their situation.
I'm reminded of that Mourinho press conference:
“Look at how they play, where they play, if they play”
Lots to ponder…
Amir Ahmadi Arian Goes in Search of Iran's Most Famous Translator
yalereview.org
Craft and Cognitive Revolutions
Incredible read about taking ownership of the works he was translating, and making them accessible to the readers who couldn't stop coming back for more
A master storyteller
I need to come back to this.
Four ways this ailment [of not doing things] shows up as:
Learning Syndrome - “one more tutorial”
Tool Syndrome - “one more library”
Process Syndrome - “I just need the right framework”
Maintenance Syndrome - “let me take care of this first”
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
If you plan to do something for a long time, plan to do it well
Carts-grasping mobile robot! 🛒
Meet TUGBOT, an autonomous robot that helps to execute intralogistics tasks. The robot can grasp carts of different sizes and weights, so it can adapt to changing warehouse conditions.
Automating intralogistics with easy-to-deploy mobile... See more
Lukas Zieglerx.com
In response to a tweet saying: out brains forget things for a reason
2nd brain is an attempt to evolve past that. Should we?
An AI assistant shouldn't have these constraints, but even those are optimized for memory.
"well, that escalated quickly."
Amazing visualization of every space launch in history by @Peterincan, guiding the simple realization that we are in the second Golden Age of space. https://t.co/o8oYGJRu46
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Craft and Cognitive Revolutions
Builders build the future, translators get it adopted
Translators use metaphorical (and literal) language, design patterns, workflows, and even entire products that relate to existing paradigms in order to transition users to new paradigms.