1: Why I want to figure out my taste. Shameless self-promotion / wanting a cross link.
2: Related, and much better: Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile, Notes on “Taste”, and What I Do When I Can’t Sleep.
3: Also related, Karpathy on Learning.
# on shortification of "learning"
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) February 10, 2024
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are…
4: Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war , and Noah has continued a series on the topic. I’m interested in a deeper dive to study what things could change quickly.
5: Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact from Brie Wolfson. The first productivity article I’ve actually done something from in… years? I’ve shared this to >3 people individually. I wish I found this piece 3 years ago.
6: Fervo Energy Drilling Results Show Rapid Advancement of Geothermal Performance. Exciting results, and maybe this is the decade of geothermal; what happens if there is suddenly (within ~20 years) abundant, cheap, low-carbon energy? I think things will get weird in my lifetime.
7: No one buys books. I’m newly interested in “questions that are way easier to answer because of private data made public during an antitrust case.”
8: Big data in the age of the telegraph | McKinsey. The original organizational chart looked like a tree, not a pyramid.
9: Combinatorial innovation and technological progress in the very long run. Very important read if you’re someone who wants to make the singularity happen; otherwise, much less scary.
10: On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars. I haven’t done many talks, but this made me feel a bit bad for everyone who suffered through my ECON 201/202 discussion sections.
11: “The promise of being continually so”, a piece I particularly enjoyed by Firelei Baez
12: Pacific Electric - Wikipedia
Forever wild to me that Los Angeles once had the best transit system in the world and we ripped it all up. pic.twitter.com/dJCgikkRrf
— M. Nolan Gray (@mnolangray) April 28, 2024
13: PubPub · Community Publishing. Open-source publishing platform for knowledge communities.
14: City upon a Hill - Wikipedia. Marilynne Robinson points out in When I Was a Child I Read Books that this phrase is often misconstrued; originally to John Winthrop (who’s quoting Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount) it meant that the Puritans mistakes would be visible for all to see. But over time it’s been re-read to be about American Exceptionalism, a shining city on a hill, with the adjective perhaps popularized by Reagan.
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