Bimoo

great chart p0rn here

fascinating to see the massive reduction in costs via L2s

full-time remote work has positive and negative effects that many people don't talk about
- positives: more freedom to do stuff, ability to work less, "skip out on work" - no incentive to brag about this
- negatives: losing interest in career progress, comfort/apathy with less work (one person described this as "remote handcuffs" (thinking they may not be able to recreate this), undermining career networking early in careers - again, no incentive to "complain" - people will say you should be grateful

I suspect for parents the right amount of work is not 0% and the right amount of childcare is not 100%

Our work paradigms lock us in binary decisions

I think the best thing about self-employment is that I can constantly experiment with different balances over time with my wife

damnit i just learned about the carrington event

reading Chip War now

its striking how chips have been at the center of geopolitics since the beginning

US v Russia
US v Japan
US v China

US has faded in and out of manufacturing dominance in different eras but theres always been a strong industry push for govt support

our political parties live in two different realities

I find some arguments for both candidates persuasive - but they aren't opposing arguments, they are just arguments against the imagined worldview of the other party

i have started several dostoevsky books and I struggled with the russian names

its like oil on water with my brain

I wonder if they would be easier if i changed them to Mark and Eric and John in chatgpt

American Kingpin
Book · 2017 · ★★★★★

This book was pretty awesome having not known much about the story of the dark web. Also just a fun read getting to know all the law enforcement trying to catch him.

Deleting social media apps from my phone until morale improves

audiobook of good work is live!

happy to hit people up with a free audible code if they want to check it out/leave a review

pmillerd.com/goodwork

How have we not cured the common cold yet.

American kingpin about Ross ulbricht is quite good. Didn’t know any of the story. Finished in a few days

Calculating if I can live off top caster airdrops

Will be interesting how long this takes to build.

Vietnam was building so much when I visited.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/traffic/vietnam-s-high-speed-railway-sections-to-break-ground-in-2027-4800596.html

i think one thing that helps me with exploring ideas is that im very comfortable releasing very very half baked hypotheses into the world

consulting probably had some influence on this - we'd do 25-50 rounds of iterations on decks, so taking a stand as you go was never a big deal.

this sort of rapid iteration environment is more valuable to have experience than i realized at the time

reading erik larsons latest book, he has this passage where he does two name drops. to people that read or know a lot of history its delightful - i love knowing who was also alive at the same time

i also appreciate he doesnt explain it more. you can go google it. hes silently acknowledgeing the internet

grand narratives are the easiest to map into

niche narratives require some sort of constant reflection mode which helps you navigate tensions and tradeoffs

likely requires more "work" if you are in social worlds where most people are in the grand narrative

most people solve for this by exiting to their niche worlds

this is based on the American Time Use survey. this is how much average FT remote workers (defined as working at home on average day) and in-office FT workers report "working" in formal work

the ATUS buckets most non work into "leisure" including watching TV and reading, and household chores

i am sort of shocked at the lower hours + added in time for prep

I think this is an underreported shift

Who is behind these kinda of ai accounts? Is it just to eventually spam stuff?

Tan ping

From spreadsheetization to hyper-ai-agentification

All this meaningful work people have been extracting at jobs is about to be squeezed out.

hosting a digital launch party next week, should be fun!

https://lu.ma/yv9o93d3

didnt have the MBA reaction but did feel like some joy was being sucked out of the consumer experience

I sense a lot of good customer experience comes down to founder choice and preference and that they care about the business

i suspect soon it wont be so seamless to return anything at amazon...

being a pessimist writer is probably the most reliable way to make money in the newsletter game