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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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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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Not into high finance at all but this seems like a neat approach. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5193565
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This AM: read some more of The Math Academy Way—and then did my daily math. https://justinmath.com/books/
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