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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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Kleptopia finished up with an ironic afterword: the author became a target of the very same narrative management tactics the book portrays. Onto a new read now, which is all about contemporary smuggling. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72722
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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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Ahh I see! Fair comp. Climbing def had a real need for us in animal terms—maybe less so in human civs, except in relation to warfare, rebellion or recreation (or spirituality).
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Running is a good shout. 100m - 400/800m might be a better comp. Physical, psychological or technical skills from the former are more complementary to the latter.
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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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Seems like the left brain / right brain split of our time.
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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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A bunch of SQLite tables (or even GSheets) hooked up to Ultorg can equal minimum viable CRUD apps in many cases. https://www.ultorg.com/
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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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You can just do stuff becomes you can just think stuff.
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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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