Tried a textual podcast about organoids with @aneeshsathe.com. Also had Bompa (an AI persona) contribute based on a D20 roll.
Promising format that could manage to capture the deliberate nature of long-form writing and the informality of trad. podcasts.
roamresearch.com#/app/kinocom...
Sharing is this easy.
Technology and globalisation massively reduced daily physical load for large segments of the world. AI is potentially reducing daily cognitive load for large segments of the world.
Q: Will we see the same chronic decay in our evolved cognitive capabilities?
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
While reading about the origins of international law, I learned about Grotius’ and his wife’s ingenious escape plan—receive trunks of books, get sent out in said trunk.
blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
Currently:
- The Years of LBJ and The Power Broker, Robert Caro
- The Matter with Things, Iain McGilchrist
- Civilisation and Capitalism, Fernand Braudel
- Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson
- Hitler: Ascent and Downfall, Volker Ullrich
- The Culture Series, Iain M. Banks
Putting together a list of “pilgrimages” for my site. Basically, unreasonably long texts.
Whereas "quake books" instantly and irrevocably alter one's inner landscape, "pilgrimages" are long and toilsome initiatives undertaken mostly on faith in the transformative power of the journey itself.
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Old but scary article. Expect it’s even worse now, across many more sports. How does the cycle get broken, though?
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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.
directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.50...
Today’s reading is Kleptopia, about the swirling undercurrents of capital amidst the world of high finance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptopia
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.
electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04...
“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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...
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.
www.strongfirst.com/tag/simple-s...
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...
Finished The Math Academy Way this AM. Real nice meta-review of what it takes to accelerate talent development.
justinmath.com/books/
New podcast queue approach I’m enjoying: don’t save episodes to listen to later. Instead, only one saved episode allowed and that episode must be listened to immediately.
In practice, follow a bunch of interesting/reliable shows and choose an episode in the moment after very quick browsing.
Looking for keystone reads on reducing complexity in software engineering. Blogs and essays, not books.
To me, reducing complexity means removing non-essential capabilities and/or adding graceful abstractions.
What’s the prior art on this?
Reading about cognitive learning strategies in The Math Academy Way. Realised that these ideas are starting to infect how I think about my learning in basically every area.
justinmath.com/books/
This week has started strong: ZACH LOWE IS BACK.
Big tech’s relation to attention-as-resource is similar to how states relate to wind-as-resource?
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZIJ...
NBA YT is usually trolling when they title “MUST SEE” and “WILD” endings—not this time.
youtube.com/watch?v=B5xt...
