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I'd say it's like 80~90% fixing Roc Camera software / testing and 10~20% reading when it comes to work, and by reading I mean reading whatever the hell I want

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I've been casting mostly about books - why? Because my day to day is fixing Roc Camera software bugs is currently a grind More updates on this soon

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Just finished this textbook (Introduction to Flight, also wrote compressible flow), took about a ~month or two. Skimmed it (obviously) but solid. Good refresher overall. Glad I did it. Some thoughts: - Ch.1~6 was a lot of basic aerodynamics, airfoils, etc - Ch.7 was just control systems review - Ch.8 astronautics - Ch.9 Propulsion, started to get interesting: I'd actually never heard of arc-jet thrusters before, turbojet, turbofan, ramjet, scarmjet, electric propulsion options - Ch.10 Hypersonics: compressible flow, need to learn more about compressible flow Good. Took notes but I probably won't read them. Ok, onto the next.

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I just sat down, and started reading this and couldn’t stop. Essays: Trust thyself, nonconformist, foolish consistency, a true prince, the divine within, the god within, ethics, the revolution, peace in yourself What a wonderful… I need to read more Emerson. I love the essay format. and I already want to reread Emerson. Sometimes while I’m reading authors I feel like fuck I want to read the same thing again. Or I want to read this again but when I’ve changed. Fuck am I ever going to get this. Fuck I should get this tattooed. That’s who this man is, writing that is powered by unconditional divine love is on a different level - holy mackerel

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“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.” R.W. Emerson - The Revolution

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One of my current go-to analogy of how to frame what’s going on in 2025 with AI is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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Don’t forget to connect with people that aren’t on the internet

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Review: Create Dangerously, Albert Camus Read this short one a few days ago. does make me want to make more. I think you see this with many writers — it’s sort of like a ritual, or right of passage to write about why you’re writing. It shows up in many forms I think it’s actually informative and required in some ways to be thinking about the process of creating sometimes before and sometimes after. Also I haven’t read Camus since high school. I wonder what the stranger would feel like or the myth of Sisyphus perhaps it’s time to revisit. I wonder what the future holds.

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what if it does work out

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Constraints as a loved one I’ve been thinking about this idea that constraints as someone you care about, genuinely. I think I mentioned it but - hey, let's stick with it for a moment. Because here’s the thing -- you don’t want things to be instantly solved for you. If they were instantly solved for me, I would just find the next thing that I want to be solved. So what is really going on? Or, how about this? Maybe it is about me growing in height, for my capability to be able to meet the constraints and give it a kiss, so that I can reach my constraints. My constraints help me grow. If your constraints were expanded for you, I'd never have to reach up on my toes, and that'd be a shame

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Does everything need to be solved? Isn’t it ok if it isn’t solved immediately? Does the solution to everything have to be a solution? What if it’s a question? What if it’s not?

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Random memory: It was about 2015 or 2016? It was peak-ZIRP, I was taking Arabic lessons at the time, and I took a ton of cheap VC subsidized Uber rides everywhere in SF. And I remember almost pretty much every Uber ride, I would quickly become friends with the driver once they realized I could speak (in my not very good Levantine Arabic) because many drivers spoke some form of Arabic for whatever reason, at the time, it turned out. One guy offered to take me out in Tashkent (not even arab) about how he got a visa by translating to the US army presence in Afghanistan, another to show me around in Oman, Kurds, Iraqis, Saudis, and heard so many life stories of people of how they got to the US, what they miss the most about Home, what they wanted to eat the most It turned uber rides into an oddly magical time, unexpectedly

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Honestly I’m happy it happened but glad to be back from vacation

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I wish there was a “mute for X amount of time” option - on one hand I am getting a lot of posts that I could not care less about from accounts on my home feed - I am muting more accounts than I ever have - on the other hand I also want to give them the benefit of the doubt in the future

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How much I love / want to give to the world often exceeds time or resources or energy that I have

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Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad ogni gradino. Anche così è stato breve il nostro lungo viaggio. Il mio dura tuttora, né più mi occorrono le coincidenze, le prenotazioni, le trappole, gli scorni di chi crede che la realtà sia quella che si vede.

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Review: "Antimemetics: Why some ideas resists spreading and some thoughts" - Nadia Asparouhova I just finished this book. I was trying to pin down -- what are my feelings on it? What was interesting about this book? What feelings did I feel reading this book. I’m going to do my best to break it up into two parts. The first part is - as an extension of its name sake, Antimemetics book by qntm. The second part, the context of where I read it from. First of all, let me start by saying - this is a pretty damn good book. First and foremost, I think the idea of memetic / antimemetics is a really great starting point. Qntm’s There is No Antimemetics Division - is still a fantastic book, and I see this almost as a downstream consequence of this book. That being said, I think what was interesting about this, was that it wasn’t about Antimemetics as much as I thought. The book to me - is about - internet culture. And the sort of social dynamics and infrastructure and ideas of internet culture and transmission of ideas. The second part: this part of the review is more about me, than the content itself. So, the context of where I read this book from is going to matter to my review. the familiarity, perhaps because of my environment and context in the world (tech adjacent, familiarity with Seeing like a State) it felt like… I was reading a really well written Substack article about tech adjacent interesting ideas - around philosophy of the development of the internet and the consequences as a society. And while there’s nothing wrong with that inherently, due to my pre-existing knowledge perhaps. It felt like getting on a train in a neighboring country, you sort of know how to get on the train, and it feels familiar, but just different enough. Or perhaps -- sort of feels like going to a really great French adjacent Haute Cuisine Michelin star restaurant, when you work at a Michelin star that is French adjacent. So on one hand, it’s great, you know the dynamics and where the author is trying to get to, and what original points they are making and what the menu is. On the other hand, you know the dishes, and the skills and what the dynamics are - to a certain extent. It feels familiar and slightly ephemerally yet important at the same time. Overall good book. I know how much work goes into something like this, and how much time it takes, so I don’t think it is done lightly. If anything I think this just goes on to show how important ideas are like this, and how books that are timely do a good job hitting the right note.

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Vividly feel how isolated our inside worlds are from each other But rhapsodic, isomorphic communication comes… surprisingly close as an external mean outside of poetry or art itself - to connect us with another

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