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This year is happening faster than I am able to prepare for it. I've filled 1/3 of an XL Moleskine since December (a burst of notebook-ing after a long time) but it still feels like events are unfolding faster. Speaking of, I find I really think better at 7"x9" than on 5.25"x8.5"
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Ethereum really is a dark forest huh
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never go full main character
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“Most cities forbid modular construction, precisely as it avoids the use of union construction workers. “ https://open.substack.com/pub/johnhcochrane/p/40-bad-ideas-and-a-few-good-ones
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That too but I think I’m getting at a different aspect. The next AI goal shouldn’t even look like an AI goal.
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Something very on-the-nose about investing 500b to build AI infrastructure and calling it “Stargate” A bit like Reagan “Star Wars” or Japan’s “5th gen computing” Great tech enters history obliquely. Cul de sacs start in on-the-nose ways, even if they achieve great heights. Eg internet as arpanet was oblique, space program that stagnated with Apollo was on-the-nose. Crypto was oblique, “private blockchains,” CBDCs and e-ID schemes are on-the-nose. The Alexnet genesis event and transformers were oblique, “alignment” tech is on the nose. Landing reusable boosters was oblique. SLS is on-the-nose. On-the-nose history-making goals are for politicians. Tech is most interesting when oblique. In the last decade SV tech in particular has lost its obliquity. Ironically, it now seems to start with ever-more ideological manifestos the way weak “alt” tech visions used to. Big money is always insecure so goes on-the-nose. The small money p,aging on the margins otoh is worth keeping an eye on.
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Food for thought https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/HammockDrivenDev.md
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Fuckit I’m going to go full waterfall and sit and think for a while. This agile do-to-think iteration-learning bullshit isn’t working. Analysis paralysis beats thrashing around in falsestartopia.
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this might be the cycle where degen CT realizes that 99% of people and institutions in the world do not actually share their priorities or values
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Caesar: “Let me have men about me who are fat Sleek-headed men such as sleep o’ nights Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look Such men are dangerous” — Julius Caesar Which kind are you? I’m getting fat, haven’t been sleeping well, have been thinking too much but not getting more dangerous Is this aging 🦋?
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Why does it feel like everything is in KTLO mode
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“Mystery balls” are “fatbergs” ‘The first batch of debris in October were at first mistakenly called "tar balls" but were later found to contain everything from cooking oil and soap scum molecules, to blood pressure medication, pesticides, hair, methamphetamine and veterinary drugs. Scientists said they resembled fat, oil and grease blobs - often called "fatbergs" - which are commonly formed in sewage systems.’ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpql7wdz5vyo
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I suppose there’s no way to stop the flood of stuff like this? après nous le flot de nous
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Nooo… “land” is keypairs not domains served by substack https://open.substack.com/pub/on/p/now-is-the-time-for-creators-to-build?r=1cjha&utm_medium=ios
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Uber is pitching me “top trending groceries” Netflix’s Home Screen now looks like Temu with garish red flags for “new episode” and “coming soon” Trump is shilling shitcoins We’re building up to some sort of enshittification crescendo
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Pet peeve: Shows that give the main protagonist very specific music tastes and then have a lot of slow mood music scenes to establish and develop character. Just give the character a funky hat and catchphrase. Don’t put me to sleep.
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If some one ever tells you: “I taught you everything you know, but not everything I know,” the correct comeback is “I learned everything you taught, but it wasn’t everything I learned.”
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Watching Cross. A bit grimdark and too real. A bit like a black version of Bosch but darker. Bosch was lightened by its stylish noir vibes.
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Yes, I figured it out via ChatGPT after posting that. Looks like someone else with a netlify account simply started serving something there.
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