Sublime

The argument that “AI can do A, but it will be a long time before it can do B” keeps aging poorly.

The Source of the World's Diamonds When the first East India Company merchants arrived on India’s shores, ‘Golconda’ was already a byword for unimaginable wealth. https://t.co/0OvgiK0O0n

I regret to inform you that all your goals are just shitty proxies for love and tribal belonging

I regret to inform you that the entry fee for having "high agency" is you take responsibility for ~everything

One failure mode that I’ve repeatedly fallen into is thinking “surely someone smarter than me must have already figured this out” when in fact no one has.

Scrolling social media makes it harder to read books because it trains your brain to discard previous context in order to understand the next thing, whereas understanding the next thing in a book requires retaining previous context.

most of you are like ~20 pomodoros away from the life you want