Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Most of us are familiar with the brain fog that comes with not getting enough sleep, but the exact processes going on in there remain mysterious. In 2012 scientists made a huge breakthrough in the field by discovering the glymphatic system, which cleans out toxic waste products from the brain during deep sleep by flushing it with cerebrospinal... See more
Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding
If the answers seem strange, so much the better. Great work often has a tincture of strangeness. You see this from painting to math. It would be affected to try to manufacture it, but if it appears, embrace it.
Boldly chase outlier ideas, even if other people aren't interested in them — in fact, especially if they aren't. If you're excited about... See more
Boldly chase outlier ideas, even if other people aren't interested in them — in fact, especially if they aren't. If you're excited about... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
When looking for details or fresh, unexpected ideas to add to a piece you are writing re-read notebooks.
But if more roads meant more prosperity, surely we’d be feeling it by now. We have three times more roads per person than New York City. Are we three times more economically productive?
The Largest Mistake of Our Generation
The pitch is that creators and business owners will use these AI profiles to talk to their followers on their behalf. They’ll be able to talk directly with humans in chat threads and respond to comments on their author’s account. Meta says Instagram users in the US can get started with AI Studio via either its website or by starting a new “AI chat”... See more
Instagram now lets people create AI versions of themselves | The ...
LLMs offer more organic, human interactions than the last fifty years of computing.
Optical character recognition for handwritten notes
Speech transcription is increasingly accurate. No typing.
Chat conversations are natural for text and voice.
You can get closer to your point by going back and forth.
Start or end every day with writing about your life. There’s always something buried underneath the to do list in your head, something you didn’t realise you felt, that when written down, will make everything clearer.
Annie Macmanus • Life Lessons From a 44 Year Old.
The company did take a hit during the COVID-19 pandemic, losing 55% of its business in March 2020. At one point, Price figured Gravity was only four months away from failing, but it bounced back after its employees voluntarily took a temporary pay cut.
CBS News • CEO on why giving all employees minimum salary of $70,000 still "works" six years later: "Our turnover rate was cut in half"
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics: