In cryptography, if an exploit is possible, we assume it’s inevitable. In politics, we assume the opposite, pretending conspiracies never happen, even when incentives are perfectly aligned.

i feel very obligated to let all the nerds know that there is a free game like geoguesser where you guess the location of origin and time period for art and historical artifacts. really high level:

High-agency is contagious. You spend time around someone who just does things and suddenly your own list of "impossible" tasks starts looking suspiciously possible.

the shift from deterministic to nondeterministic computing demands a new kind of builder.

156 Years ago today, the Nature Journal wrote its first publication.

"Can there even be a Truth without Goodness and Beauty? Well, this is just what we call "objectivity," and it is just a kind of hell." — Timothy Patitsas, @patitsas Google's Word Usage Trends:

Why is this true? Art reveals universal truths. It transcends the mundane, and evokes awe. Through art, we connect to something greater than ourselves. It's the nearest thing to a spiritual experience in a world blind to God.

The best product manager is a software engineer and the best software engineer is a product manager

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…

In the past, many vertical software companies were started by domain experts who added technical capacity later. Now it’s the inverse. AI-native startups are led by technical founders who hire for context early. AI delivers differentiation. Context drives defensibility.

the problem with startup culture is that there are IQ130 ivy grads aspiring to build calorie trackers and ai to-do lists. as tech culture is becoming more famous, we are seeing it being diluted with non-ambitious, low-risk people building chill startups. the whole intellectual resource of Ivy league grads and autismmaxxers is being spent building chrome extensions, calorie trackers, and ubers. there's a serious lack of focus on defense tech, robotics, energy, and other civilization-grade systems. ambitious people have far less competition than they think, which is good on a personal level, but not so great for humanity. Which way western man?

This is very good news for me personally

generalist is aware of what the specialist does (input & output, not details), but specialist is not aware of what generalist does

mystics understand what mystics are, and what scientists are. Scientists only understand what scientists are

My dad used to send me emails, novel-length texts, and spam me with tweets that I’d let sit unread for days while I was caught up in the "busyness" of my 20s. Take a moment to appreciate your dads, folks. Love you, Dad! Happy Father's Day.

"I'm going to win because I'm crazy" CEO "I'm going to win because I'm cracked" CTO

Many who say they are “looking for a 10x engineer” 1) would not know how to identify one 2) do not deserve one

Having safe neighborhoods is more important than an extra 0.1% of GDP.

Playgrounds then and now: 1920s, 1970s, and 2020s. Is the absence of 'rough-and-tumble' playgrounds, with their focus on safety, preventing kids from learning about risk and consequence?

Kids books you didn’t know existed by famous authors: - The Guest by Albert Camus - The bed book by Sylvia Plath - Sun Moon Star by Kurt Vonnegut - Advice to Little Girls by Mark Twain - The King of the Shirt by Leo Tolstoy - Poetry for Young People by William Blake - Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo - Escape of the Dancing Bear by Leo Tolstoy - The Crows of Pearblossom by Aldous Huxley - Father, We Thank You by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poor Folk, And, the Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Lion and the Puppy and Other Stories for Children by Leo Tolstoy - The Selfish Giant & Other Classic Tales: Six Illustrated Stories by Oscar Wilde

5,000 years of innovation.