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I am living a life of which Ernest Hemingway would be proud – a montage of cold plunges in the sea, gin at noontime, hearty lunches, and languid hours lazing in the afternoon sun.

Moving fast, let alone breaking things, is the last thing on my mind.

Rebecca • On being a technologist

MySpace linked the digital geography of the Internet to the offscreen world in other ways. You connected your account to your friends’ accounts by “friending” them, building a map of your preëxisting IRL relationships, and the site prompted you to choose a “Top Friends” ranking of eight people whose names appeared first in the list. The feature... See more

Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker

My ether of LLM convos

We've always had a tension between enterprise design practices and a "small pieces, loosely joined" way of making software, to use David Weinberger's felicitous phrase. The advantages to the latter are in part described in Worse is Better and The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Situated software is in the small pieces category, with the following... See more

Clay Shirky • Situated Software

Theres something so amazing about watching someone who is a master in their field, just do what they do. You can see the genius and true skill of what make them so great. Watching Paul with a guitar in his hand or at the piano is like watching Bob Ross paint a landscape.

Michelangelo CC • Paul McCartney Explains Blackbird

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How ‘Wicked’ Built Immersive Real-Life Sets, From Shiz To Emerald City | Architectural Digest

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I studied Classics in college. When I read Caro, I cannot help but think that his work is -- in terms of quality, significance, and longevity -- comparable to that of Thucydides, Tacitus, Suetonius. Truly one of a kind.

Robert Caro: Understanding Power (Full Length Version)

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For someone looking to dive into Rick and Morty’s deeper philosophical and ethical questions, here’s a curated list of episodes that challenge viewers to think critically about topics like morality, free will, existence, and the consequences of technological advancement:

1. “The Ricks Must Be Crazy” (S2E6)

Themes: Exploitation, power dynamics, ethics