Amazing what a single dedicated developer can accomplish.

Things are gonna get heated real soon.

For me personally, the only good use case for a tablet is to read PDFs that cannot be easily read on an e-reader (like textbooks, for example).

Also a chronological feed, for the love of god.

You're supposed to smell the flowers. Grass is what you touch. Or so I'm told.

If one adheres to the Unix philosophy, then the answer is also "yes".

And I only just saw this on the other website:

Sorry to hear that. Hope you have an awesome break. You'll most likely find something much better next as well.

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

This was a fun read, though the subject matter might be a little gloomy. There’s a bit of schadenfreude to be enjoyed here at the expense of the abomination of a company that is (or was) Cluely.

Self-preservation at all costs—the man for whom nothing is more valuable than his own life—is the lowest of all creatures. In all of human psychology, nor in the behavior of animals, there’s no baser instinct than this.

Whatever your opinion of Greta Thunberg, what she says here sounds unquestionably true. Real conviction of a worthy goal, however distant, can make the world come alive by imbuing one’s life with great meaning and purpose.

Jason Fowler Pro Max. I like it.

What if you were completely without fear? Who would you then be? If you tell me you won’t be any different, either you’re one person in a billion or you’re lying, perhaps to yourself as much as to anyone.

This is where you’re supposed to be everyday as any kind of creative person.

Link to full essay on the Internet Archive: dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/ener...

William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits “Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”

Wonderful piece. The psychologist William James also wrote at length about this topic in a long essay titled "The Energies of Men."

Here's a good overview of the essay:

Education proper is the constant and never-ending refining of our model of the world.

An odd fellow indeed.

Sean Parker questions Facebook's impact YouTube video by CBS News

It's such a travesty and we don't talk enough about it. And they did this knowingly. Here's Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook, basically admitting to it all:

In comparison to reading, thinking and contemplation and silence seem to be underrated.

That's very true. But I think to some degree this also applies to content we (correctly) consider high quality, provided that we drown ourselves in such content.

Good books, good blogs, wonderful documentaries, etc, should of course be consumed, but perhaps not so much as to lose perspective.

I downloaded Tiktok once a few months after it first came out and then spent several hours on it at once. Immediately, I could tell the effects it had on my mind, I got scared, and then promptly deleted.

Like you, to this day I've stayed the hell away from short-form video.

There is an underrated danger to too much information consumption; which is that in the noise, one tends to forget the basics, the fundamentals, which are the most important to keep in mind.

I think it's safe to say no one enjoys that.

So on average, you've read a book a week. Impressive!

By the way, the "complete list on Goodreads here" link doesn't work; it leads to my profile instead of yours.

If you're a fan of Asimov, I came across this hard-to-find essay of his on his work process that you might find interesting:

Michael Lynch (@mtlynch.io) has compiled here a wonderful list of essays about software that influenced him. The ones I’ve read (and I’ve read a few before) have all been very good.

It does, which is why I sometimes check out the links on Hacker News and other similar places.

The biggest trouble with algorithmic feeds for me is that there's no natural point to stop scrolling, and so I almost always spend more time than I should with them. Now I avoid them as much as I can.

A window (but not Windows) into the past. Nice!