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Share things you read. Not too much. Mostly articles.
… he argued in 1966…empty and immoral empire or to exhaustion and fascism
Paul Goodman, The Moral Ambiguity of America: The Massy Lectures for 1966 (Toronto: CBC Publications, 1966), p. 15.
Paul Goodman, The Moral Ambiguity of America: The Massy Lectures for 1966 (Toronto: CBC Publications, 1966), p. 15.
Hope this is a fascinating read.
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html
Third spaces aren’t curated to your preferences. They are “curated” a bit in that there is a vibe set by regulars. But that’s it.
I third spaces you can’t have a black and white thinking. Social skills are required.
https://midwesthetic.substack.com/p/third-space-you-cant-handle-a-third?triedRedirect=true
I third spaces you can’t have a black and white thinking. Social skills are required.
https://midwesthetic.substack.com/p/third-space-you-cant-handle-a-third?triedRedirect=true
do you guys just read or have a note taking strategy?
This spawns a ton of thoughts about how the artist and labels were just mad about the royalty component of the problem and how, you guesse it, blockchains solve this.
Now, if there was only a way for the physical and digital to carry key:pairs, that enable a solution for catch-22, temporarily of course.
We are going into a physical revolution after all. Even AI is having its physical revolution.
Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t live in interesting times. It’s all a lie!
https://www.slashgear.com/1699748/used-cd-controvery-history-music-industry/
Now, if there was only a way for the physical and digital to carry key:pairs, that enable a solution for catch-22, temporarily of course.
We are going into a physical revolution after all. Even AI is having its physical revolution.
Don’t let anyone tell you we don’t live in interesting times. It’s all a lie!
https://www.slashgear.com/1699748/used-cd-controvery-history-music-industry/
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth·03:56 01/11/2024
Work in progress spec for App Frames
https://warpcast.notion.site/App-Frames-Public-12a6a6c0c101805f84f0ca8bb27047d6
https://warpcast.notion.site/App-Frames-Public-12a6a6c0c101805f84f0ca8bb27047d6
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Jayme Hoffman
@jayme·23:36 22/10/2024
I recently wrapped up winding down the company I started four years ago.
Here’s a long post on some of the hard-fought lessons I learned from building marketplaces and crypto apps.
https://blog.jaymehoffman.com/four-years-of-pivots
Here’s a long post on some of the hard-fought lessons I learned from building marketplaces and crypto apps.
https://blog.jaymehoffman.com/four-years-of-pivots
Setting up this channel with the @rounds invite tool. Everyone gets one invite a week. See the link in channel bio.
“The estate tax is a funny levy. These days, it hardly contributes to US coffers, and the earnings are a rounding error when compared to other taxes. But it plays an outsize role in the politics of taxation, with conservatives referring to the “death tax” and the (unsubstantiated) plight of family farms while progressives bring up the disproportionate power of the superwealthy.”
https://sherwood.news/power/who-died-and-left-the-us-7-billion-fayez-sarofim/
https://sherwood.news/power/who-died-and-left-the-us-7-billion-fayez-sarofim/
Great post on ideas distribution in the world of AI
https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/in-distribution-vs-out-of-distribution
https://mhdempsey.substack.com/p/in-distribution-vs-out-of-distribution
Paywalled. But people not reading fiction is a problem
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-decline-of-the-novel
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-decline-of-the-novel
“For all the richness to be squeezed from knowing of a bee’s life, I sometimes think there is even more to be learned from its demise.”
https://www.threepennyreview.com/the-noblest-of-things/
https://www.threepennyreview.com/the-noblest-of-things/
“You might want to hit your weed pen before reading this one.” Gave me a good laugh.
- @packy on his Friday night drop about “negative time”
https://x.com/packym/status/1842184471023599936?s=46
- @packy on his Friday night drop about “negative time”
https://x.com/packym/status/1842184471023599936?s=46
Another case why kids need to learn how to use their phones in creative ways instead of just doom-scrolling and following each other.
https://rachelbotsman.substack.com/p/rethink-from-fomo-to-fogo
https://rachelbotsman.substack.com/p/rethink-from-fomo-to-fogo
Interesting to consider. Most people like the idea of cops wearing body cams to prevent corruption and abuse of power. But as the cost of the technology goes down, how comfortable are you with the idea that every private and public employee you interact with may be wearing a body camera?
And what is lost in the process? Does the parking inspector who would have ripped up the fine for a harried single mother who arrived back at the 5 mins late, now write the ticket because he’s wearing a body cam?
Do we lose some of the social grease and small accomodations that ease the rigidity of modern society because abundant body cameras now mean that everyone starts following the letter of the law inherent to their jobs, rather than the spirit?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-body-cams-create-a-culture-of-fear/
And what is lost in the process? Does the parking inspector who would have ripped up the fine for a harried single mother who arrived back at the 5 mins late, now write the ticket because he’s wearing a body cam?
Do we lose some of the social grease and small accomodations that ease the rigidity of modern society because abundant body cameras now mean that everyone starts following the letter of the law inherent to their jobs, rather than the spirit?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-body-cams-create-a-culture-of-fear/
(Most of my thoughts used to easily fall into channels, these days my brain is too foggy to compress to that level)
https://ia.samaltman.com/
https://ia.samaltman.com/
Reading aloud isn't weird or cringe.
It's actually how we can often appreciate the written more. Especially for poetry.
But even with personal writing, thinking about how it sounds gives you the best clue toward if this is really your voice or not.
Also it's fun reading to others :))
https://www.raptitude.com/2024/09/in-favor-of-reading-aloud/
It's actually how we can often appreciate the written more. Especially for poetry.
But even with personal writing, thinking about how it sounds gives you the best clue toward if this is really your voice or not.
Also it's fun reading to others :))
https://www.raptitude.com/2024/09/in-favor-of-reading-aloud/
Sometimes the real wonder comes at sheer recognition that it's a marvel how things exist at all - and how we get to experience them, just like that.
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-most-profound-wonder-is-stirred-by-what-is-most-ordinary
https://psyche.co/ideas/the-most-profound-wonder-is-stirred-by-what-is-most-ordinary
that time of the year, i have just opened Meaningness' seminal "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" in 4 different browser windows:
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Something for readers and fans of techno-thrillers - @SlopeOfHope on X - is publishing his new novel "Solid State" for free via daily Substack subscriber emails 🤓 Love the concept ... could have been Paragraph, but readers will read no matter what 😉
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https://solidstatenovel.substack.com/?utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web
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https://solidstatenovel.substack.com/?utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web
Had no idea how insanely eccentric Palmer Luckey's life was until reading this profile.
Also pretty ironic that he got ousted from Oculus for doing the same thing many tech leaders are doing today: endorsing Trump.
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril
Also pretty ironic that he got ousted from Oculus for doing the same thing many tech leaders are doing today: endorsing Trump.
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril
Still the most goated reading list in tech circles in my opinion.
Who else has a great public bookshelf?
https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
Who else has a great public bookshelf?
https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf
Found this amazing reading list from Curve Labs about cypherpunk souls. Lots of regen, philosophy, decentralization, ownership type of articles https://www.curvelabs.eu/anarchive
anyone have good book suggestions?
“-Community and culture are important, but it's a cop out answer.
- Economic mechanisms are important, but it's a cop out answer.
- Given L2s/Solana as a baseline, faster TPS is important, but it's a cop out answer”
“The future of blockchain infrastructure — and of genuinely new applications in crypto — is Purpose Built.”
https://x.com/jasonjzhao/status/1826236451954286946?s=46
- Economic mechanisms are important, but it's a cop out answer.
- Given L2s/Solana as a baseline, faster TPS is important, but it's a cop out answer”
“The future of blockchain infrastructure — and of genuinely new applications in crypto — is Purpose Built.”
https://x.com/jasonjzhao/status/1826236451954286946?s=46
Great read
"Some of these places want you to do the apology show for what you believe in, and we don’t apologize for what we believe in."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html
"Some of these places want you to do the apology show for what you believe in, and we don’t apologize for what we believe in."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html
Like a tree that spends many years as a small sapling before growing into a towering oak, trust’s earliest drops are negligible and barely visible. Yet, over time they compound on one another as trust increases. It just takes a lot of patience and persistence to wait for that tub to fill up.
https://collabfund.com/blog/fill-the-bathtub/
https://collabfund.com/blog/fill-the-bathtub/
Brock Pierce going to Puerto Rico to revitalize the local economy with funds "rescued from the IRS" just to be found to not do any of that but instead exploit people he hired.
That what they call crypto colonialism?
Anyway, not helping our popularity with the general public either but a good read.
https://news.kiwistand.com/stories?index=0x66bc6a8c9b9ff30bbc2cea00afc4d8e4db610122edae8e819abd7c77bef5345d2a7401ff
That what they call crypto colonialism?
Anyway, not helping our popularity with the general public either but a good read.
https://news.kiwistand.com/stories?index=0x66bc6a8c9b9ff30bbc2cea00afc4d8e4db610122edae8e819abd7c77bef5345d2a7401ff
An interesting dive into a lot of things but mostly about plastics and how they get flamingoes inside the beach balls.
https://www.scopeofwork.net/the-flamingoes/?ref=scope-of-work-newsletter
https://www.scopeofwork.net/the-flamingoes/?ref=scope-of-work-newsletter
Critical Mass was the recent read that helped me form a picture of what defi and DAOs are trying to get for us
https://daniel-suarez.com/
https://daniel-suarez.com/
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I made a reading list (there are four books, but you can scroll past real fast to get to essays) to help make sense of modern angst: the feeling of running from the abyss ever faster, the feeling that nothing matters, that nothing is real.
Also, shoutout @fileverse for fixing a bug real quick, and overall super neat writing experience💚
https://docs.fileverse.io/frame/0x05D29870D73d0E46D670CB72EA465702bC506668/0?key=2gQA5LIQR4jLnhe2cNhyH47vxBkLyTPOYE7Ul2ZjwNn5qFFJOw8yPF1kkQoS5yAp
Also, shoutout @fileverse for fixing a bug real quick, and overall super neat writing experience💚
https://docs.fileverse.io/frame/0x05D29870D73d0E46D670CB72EA465702bC506668/0?key=2gQA5LIQR4jLnhe2cNhyH47vxBkLyTPOYE7Ul2ZjwNn5qFFJOw8yPF1kkQoS5yAp
This trips reading!
I’ve heard nothing but great things about this book, and reading the intro gave me a lil chuckle… I’m excited 💙
I’ve heard nothing but great things about this book, and reading the intro gave me a lil chuckle… I’m excited 💙
“Many in Silicon Valley see the jhanas as offering a tantalizing promise: a way to reprogram one’s internal software to access bliss on demand. It’s an idea in keeping with the Bay Area’s history as a playground for those chasing both peak performance and peak experience.”
What happens when you commercialize ancient spiritual practices? https://time.com/7007856/jhourney-meditation-jhanas-retreat-bliss/
What happens when you commercialize ancient spiritual practices? https://time.com/7007856/jhourney-meditation-jhanas-retreat-bliss/
"Cooking isn’t creative, and it isn’t easy. It’s serious, and it’s hard to do well, just as everything worth doing is damn hard."
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/cooks-illustrateds-christopher-kimball.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/cooks-illustrateds-christopher-kimball.html
Want to read this update on the classic, Iron and Silk.
Me: Kunming Institute of Technology, 1985/86
https://on.ft.com/4dkiLHs
Me: Kunming Institute of Technology, 1985/86
https://on.ft.com/4dkiLHs
