1: Why state capitals are such random cities
2: https://www.caretplugin.ai — one of my favorite new tools — chat is an easy but under-powered UI for LLMs
3: How Constitutional Litigation Can Help End Exclusionary Zoning — Recently ran past all these old money plantations with signs about how the property is permanently protected/preserved by some non-governmental trust. How is that legal?? Maybe it’s not really permanent or enforceable?
4: Group chats rule the world — Also see Sam Altman on the Dwarkesh podcast, and Patrick Collison here mentioning group chats. How does one get in these kind of group chats? I’m in some but not a ton — should I be creating / building group chats? Also:
in a sense every organization is a particular kind of group chat
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) May 28, 2024
5: How to Build 300,000 Airplanes in Five Years — I want to learn more about what would and what wouldn’t be replicable today.
6: Jerry Seinfeld, Ichiro Suzuki, and the Pursuit of Mastery — “Obsessives are dead serious, those on the path of mastery are willing to take chances and to play the fool… someone on the path of mastery is so interested in new approaches and new learnings, that there’s no energy left for appearances.” (quoting an Esquire article). Also see Be Sincere—Not Serious | Michael Ashcroft and Play | Jackie Zhao
7: How I Cured My Procrastination - Learn How To Learn — and Dan is building a discord community of people doing 16hrs of coding on Mondays & Thursdays — the core idea that feels new to me is doing 2 days per week in order to not burn out, which is a lot like training for a marathon — optimal zone of effort is multi-domain.
8: Dan Schulz on “all-time great posts” — I like to borrow lists from others to make my own syllabus.
9: Spiral — I keep telling people that there’s still a lot of room for LLM use-cases to improve with good prompts.
10: Gloo | AI & the Church Hackathon 2024 — it’s really fun how niche communities can get nowadays.
11: At the National Gallery of Art, I learned that Samuel Morse - Wikipedia was an artist first (mostly portraits, successful but not famous).
12: The Historic Odd Fellows Home of Elkins Selling to the Highest Bidder — 99 bedrooms and only probably haunted.
13: Easy Org Chart - Google Workspace Marketplace — spent some time this month updating this google workspace add-on I built to make creating org charts on editable slides much easier.
14: Interesting early career advice —
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