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I write at readpolymathematics.substack…
I write about my learning process, creativity, and how I try to pursue multiple interests successfully. Each month I also send a roundup of the best podcast eps and reading from my month. This is a thread of every post from 2026.
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all good stories begin with a mystery and end with a twist 🍸
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Printernet library looking good!
1. sign up app.getprinternet.com
2. find 5-7 interesting pieces of reading, ask the librarian for a rec if you want
3. click "compose issue" and curate a personalized magazine
4. print your magazine out and read it this weekend
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Polymathematics retweeted
Jun 10
i don’t want the AI summary, i want the long wikipedia article with the blue text link side quests
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sometimes making a list of all the exciting stuff I want to do next is enough. I always want to be creatively oriented towards abundance, vast creative possibility, rather than constricted - even as I ultimately need to decide what to focus on next.
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when I talk about "things I ought to be doing", the good kind of work, this is what I think of. from this weekend's writing session.
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yeppp that was me, I clicked 'always allow' roughly 177 times as a critical assistant in Claude's latest Erdős solution
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web postcards - turn any page or screenshot into a digital postcard that you can text or email to someone
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everyone switching to a flip phone, meanwhile I am house phone answering machine only now
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An octopus thinks at eight thirty seven; chess moves like waves from the depths of heaven
my clock from @genmon, which can write poetry, just wrote that. logging for posterity.
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I'd like a small frame on my office wall with downtown Austin live streaming all day pls
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a vibe shift for vibe coding
Anthropic has seriously shattered my AI psychosis, so now I feel extremely anxious about the sudden lack of perceived hyperproductivity. I don't trust any of my agents, Claude or otherwise, will get a single thing even partially correct. Even for vibe code fun the magic is gone
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Polymathematics retweeted
Jun 2
A forest has sprung up from what was once a frequently flooded wasteland in the middle of Austin.
On 13 acres along lower Waller Creek, workers with Waterloo Greenway have studiously planted some 1,600 trees and around 200,000 other native or adaptive species.
This new-old forest gathers in an area called the Confluence, a $91 million project named for the meeting of the creek and Lady Bird Lake.
statesman.com/news/article/a…
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I’ve survived two rounds of cliches. Phew.
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time for round 2 of types of people in austin:
overly obsessed ut fan - hasn’t missed a home game since college, thinks burnt orange is a “beautiful color”, and got into a real argument with their spouse over naming their son archie
tarrytown milf - westlake dermatology on speed dial, private pilates at 10, and knows about your divorce before you do
run club guy - broke up with his girlfriend to “focus on himself” and now gets weekly dates after his 3 mile loop
steiner ranch swinger - the upside-down pineapple isn’t a symbol, it’s the family crest
14 y/os on $4,000 e-bikes - proof that money can’t buy supervision. making life miserable for austin drivers one wheelie at a time
elon’s disciples - first in line for the cybertruck, has read the spacex s-1 at least 10 times, and tweets daily at him hoping for “just one like”
health influencer - first words when they meet you are “peptides?” and spent 30 minutes crying after discovering the restaurant cooked with seed oils
sixth street bum - takes a daily crap on the sidewalks of downtown austin, have been arrested 28 times and district attorney garza knows them by first name
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prototypes are a great thing to build an essay around. a well-written essay is a kind of prototype itself, so the fit feels right
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vibe coding with MF DOOM and a full cup of coffee, the future is bright
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Ray’s endorsement of @getPrinternet
May 31
Ray Bradbury's timeless advice on rebuilding your attention span
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Polymathematics retweeted
here is some vague abstract advice, may it be weirdly relevant to whatever specific thing you're stuck on
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I just did 3 weeks of D and it ruled. All of these would be awesome, but next up I want to explore B or E.
May 29
if you’re not choosing E you have a certified mental illness
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