Matthew McDowell-Sweet

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A new version of Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. + Summary stats and streaks + Compound search queries + URL clean-up + Import and export Head to the site to see it in action and/or get access right now. https://subset.network/

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Article’s a couple years old but expect it’s even worse now. Reminds me of comps between previous generations of football player’s total workloads and new age stars like Lamine Yamal having multiple times more early on. Not sure how this cycle gets broken when skill level has never been higher, competition has never been greater, and the upside for “making it” continues to multiply. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27125793/these-kids-ticking-bombs-threat-youth-basketball

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Today’s reading is Kleptopia, about the swirling undercurrents of capital amidst the world of high finance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptopia

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Hoping I can be as buttery smooth across the ground in 20 years. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eKVcygzipiE

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Bouldering is to climbing as _____ is to _______? Spinning-cycling?

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For some reason, sync engines feel like a Whiteheadean advance in tech. They sweep away a whole bunch of distributed systems problems in a way that feels more substantial than elegant abstractions. https://electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04/09/building-ai-apps-on-sync

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“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” But when everything is a meme, the timeline ain’t that long. At all.

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AI-as-labour-elimination is a whole different game than AI-as-labour-amplification. https://aftermath.site/ai-video-game-development-art-vibe-coding-midjourney

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Today’s reading is Kafka on the Shore. Just one book across fiction and non-fiction for a few days, and it’s actually quite pleasant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore

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Starter packs of minimum viable CRUD apps for orgs in different domains.

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The Simple and Sinister training protocol is GOATed—100 swings and 10 TGUs. Straightforward, quick, flexible. For optimal experience, do under a bright blue sky. https://www.strongfirst.com/tag/simple-sinister/

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Came back to this a few times over the last week. https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet

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Went for some fiction for this AM’s reading—Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Murakami’s prose always gets me with its blend of directness and aching beauty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_on_the_Shore

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The NBA is the perfect sport for edutainment media wave. Massive pool of content to chop up (30 teams, 82 game season plus playoffs, cup etc.); big analytics landscape to spin narratives and wage battles over; league institutions are for player media empowerment; legacy media is pure hot take filth for the most part and people are pushed to look elsewhere for “in depth analysis”; sports gambling capital flowing in and enabling distributed analysis and commentary. Doesn’t seem like any other sport has this potent a mix.

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Had this queued for a couple long haul flights at the end of 2024. Never got around to it until now—started this AM whilst en route to a climbing sesh. Good so far. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/meta

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The most consequential longevity battleground: biological hyper-optimisation vs. rewilding. Bryan Johnson archetype vs Katy Bowman archetype. IMO, rewilding wins.

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Finished The Math Academy Way this AM. Real nice meta-review of what it takes to accelerate talent development. https://justinmath.com/books/

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New podcast queue approach I’m enjoying: don’t save episodes to listen to later. Instead, only one saved episode allowed and that episode must be listened to immediately. In practice, follow a bunch of interesting/reliable shows and choose an episode in the moment after very quick browsing.

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Looking for keystone reads on reducing complexity in software engineering. Blogs and essays, not books. To me, reducing complexity means removing non-essential capabilities and/or adding graceful abstractions. What’s the prior art on this?

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Reading about cognitive learning strategies in The Math Academy Way. Realised that these ideas are starting to infect how I think about my learning in basically every area. https://justinmath.com/books/

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