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- skunk works is amazing - scramjet propulsion is a textbook - wing leader is fun read, been on my list for ages - spacepower ascendant is about security / power projection in space - the question concerning technology in china (looks super interesting yuk hui) - i got into yuk hui, and just bought a bunch of his books: cybernetics for the 21st cent. vol1., art and cosmotecnics, machine and sovereignty - julian jaynes is a classic, read parts of it need to finish the bicameral mind - spengler is a classic - been meaning to read this one for ages - On Kings - this is graeber, started it got bored. @gilles recommnded it to me
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One of the books that I most enjoyed, that I got tremendous joy out of -- of all the books -- was Gene Kranz's "Failure is not an Option"
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https://warpcast.com/bravojohnson/0xf76a7295
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One of my favorite trilogies: - Before Sunrise (1995) - Before Sunset (2004) - Before Midnight (2013)
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Narrator: It was
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We all love the idea of caring Actually caring isn’t for everyone
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Still a +1 for me
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There’s a hidden cost to making stuff you care about. Maybe that’s why it’s easy to do enterprise b2b stuff - it’s easier to detach. Because when you care, the price you pay is your self. If you don’t care, or see it as a part of a larger thing - all of a sudden there’s a freedom to it. It’s nice - but the underlying cost is always care. Care and attending to it
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“We are defined by our ability to achieve the impossible. That’s what Skunk Works was founded on, and that’s what we do.” - Kelly Johnson
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I’ve often thought about Rudolf Otto’s way of describing a higher power: “mysterium tremendum et fascinans”
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Love the idea & the word: "Caesura" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesura
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Shakespeare Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 3
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The most terrifying thing I have come across: who I actually am. I am terrified to find myself more _____________ than I ever thought.
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Oh right i almost forgot -- infrastructure with no culture is 2000s/2010s Internet technology behemoth companies
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Historically, in civilizations: - a culture without infrastructure is like a ghost, a soul that wanders through eternity with no body (think Byzantine Empire) - infrastructure with no culture is like a machine -- what is that? I'd say something akin to the Soviet Union, but even that had culture itself. Or the Cultural Revolution could also be seen as an attempt to reorient culture and infrastructure toward a new vision, but - once again, it isn't that it didn't have culture, or a soul - just something radically different than what was before
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How do I some how include this
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Some thoughts about the observer effect: - doesn’t require human consciousness to interfere - just macroscopic interference leading to decoherence - quantum states are in “superposition” a probability cloud of states - something like a slit experiment makes them behave like they are in a classical state; hence the observer effect - but it’s really because we don’t experience the world as a linear combination of multiple states aka superposition
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I'd say people who deal with words - poets, being one of them (writers in general) are going to understand words a lot better than software engineers who don't think about the downstream consequences of emotional impact of memory, individually and collectively. So yeah, they probably would consider the weight that names have and take it seriously. example: for a non technical vibe coder - the difference between a well engineered product and vibe coded app is close to zero until they get into the details. same with naming.
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How people name things tell you a lot about who they are, because names have power, more than we think For example, software engineers do not tend to be poets, so thats why its one the hardest things in CS, the other is cache invalidation
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