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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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The secret reason that people are pro in-person working when the work doesn’t strictly require it? It normalises non-screen time, which are often the most generative parts of one’s day. https://x.com/leashless/status/1903535768716320970
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More Braudel this AM—getting into the home stretch now, as Braudel tours around non-Europe and takes stock of the various region’s trajectories towards capitalism. Today, got a nice overview of the rise of the Americas (north and south) and their eventual economic autonomy. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-iii/paper
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First progress studies. Now hype studies. So, upon which axis can these be plotted on a 2x2, and what are the missing _____ studies disciplines? https://hypestudies.org/
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When the model doesn’t match reality, the model’s the issue. Suspect this applies to the analytics era of the NBA. Not everything can be quantified and optimised. And within that “everything” there’s bound to be some critical factors. https://youtube.com/watch?v=3G5kjStPdP0
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More Braudel today (still going!): this AM’s session was on England nee London’s ascent, which was enabled by three centuries (!) of sterling stability. Reminded me of the dollar’s entanglement with US hegemony over the last few generations. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-iii/paper
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Some learning / skill acquisition meta right here. https://justinmath.com/advice-on-upskilling/
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How will us humans larp meaningful work when surveilled by our machine overseers?
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GM. This AM’s reading was about the +/-‘s of France’s size as it trundled towards a national market. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-iii/paper
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“It’s not just enough for me personally to be running a fast OODA loop—in a large group, everyone needs to be autonomously making frequent, high-quality, local prioritization decisions, without needing a round-trip through me.“ https://www.benkuhn.net/pjm/
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Seems like every new technical discipline that becomes commercially critical goes through this evolution and has to solve a bunch of similar-but-different problems for themselves. https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2209.09125
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Wondering how to square the pro-mediocrity stance in the linked cast with the existence of n-of-1 people like this. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/jeff-dean-and-noam-shazeer
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Thinking about some of Waitzkin’s comments recently. There’s a segment where he categorises types of constraints encountered during performance. It roughly aligns with how I’ve been categorising my own difficulties whilst doing BJJ, climbing and math. Basically: - Physical - Technical - Psychological In difficult moments, I’ve been 1) trying to identify which type of constraint is impeding me and 2) experimenting with litanies to overcome them. A litany is a complex concept compressed down into a directive. Two I’ve been playing with are: - “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast” - “Relax to win” These kinda work but they don’t focus on one particular class of constraint. Wondering: does anyone have go-to litanies they’ve used or developed over time? https://open.spotify.com/episode/06nvqDXdnYJiJd16MSod8K
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V. excited to see this play out. “What the global moment calls for is neither accelerators, nor brakes, but steering technologies. Genuinely new world logics that are sufficiently fluid and expressive to harness the explosive new promethean accelerationist energies being unleashed today. World logics based on fundamentally new principles and ideas that comprehend the chaos well enough to allow us to govern and steer.” https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/sop-2025-accelerating-order
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Apple may have fumbled the ArtInt bag with their AppInt antics but could they accidentally stay ahead of the curve because of their MLX ecosystem? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/apple-s-siri-chief-calls-ai-delays-ugly-and-embarrassing-promises-fixes
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Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams - IEEE Spectrum “When people talk about world-class engineering organizations, they often have in mind teams that are top-heavy with staff and principal engineers, or that recruit heavily from the ranks of former Big Tech employees and top universities. But I would argue that a truly great engineering org is one where you don’t have to be one of the “best” or most pedigreed engineers to have a lot of impact on the business. I think it’s actually the other way around. A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can consistently move fast, ship code, respond to users, understand the systems they’ve built, and move the business forward a little bit more, day by day, week by week.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer
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New wave of VPNs dropping, it seems.
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I’m going to actually have to check out this… https://youtube.com/watch?v=EWvNQjAaOHw
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Sufficiently advanced learning is indistinguishable from identity change. https://warpcast.com/keccers.eth/0xc62a2646
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Read more Braudel today: this time on the rise of Amsterdam and its subsequent rugging by London. https://www.ucpress.edu/books/civilization-and-capitalism-15th-18th-century-vol-iii/paper
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