Stephen Malina

@an1lam

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Bought my Goruck GR1 nearly 10 years ago. Have used almost daily and only thing that's ever broken on it is the rubber around the zipper cord. At $345, that's ~$.1 per use.

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Some naval gazey, self-indulgent reflections on 2022: https://stephenmalina.com/post/2023-01-02-reflections-on-2022/.

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Not sure if it's a result of approaching 30 or kneejerk contrarianism against AI-generated writing (which I'm actually optimistic about) but I'm finding myself appreciating "stylized" writing more recently. Bruce Sterling's prologue to Ascendancies is a good example: https://i.imgur.com/4wKqzpG.jpg

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Cool crypto use-case I haven't seen discussed (but maybe it has) is dominant assurance contracts for product features. This requires reliable oracles but the idea would be that users agree to pay some prize if a product develops some feature. Upon shipping the payment automatically goes through.

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It's crazy to me that no one has disrupted Goodreads. Yes it's an Amazon product but I'm pretty sure they don't really care about it. The barrier isn't technological and it's clearly a case where something 5-10x better is possible, especially relative to some of the other stuff that receives a lot of investment.

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Robotics progress seems crazy fast right now. For a while I was saying we were at the ImageNet moment, but it seems like it may have blown past that. https://twitter.com/keerthanpg/status/1602751890021761026?s=20&t=12qdD10D0K6blAIYSFI7zA

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Tried Factorio for the first time. 4.5 hours later: this is the future of education!

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