The Plague
Date: September 30, 2020
“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.” Albert Camus, The Plague
Allegory of the cave – Wikipedia
Date: September 8, 2020
Categories: general
In the allegory, Socrates describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the … Read More
centaur chess
Date: August 31, 2020
Categories: general
Advanced chess is a form of chess in which each human player uses a computer chess program to explore the possible results of candidate moves. Despite this computer assistance, it is the human player who controls and decides the game. Also called cyborg chess or centaur chess, they were introduced for the first time by … Read More
Focus mode and diffused mode
Date: August 25, 2020
Categories: general
Professor and former Knowledge Project Podcast guest, Barbara Oakley, is credited with popularizing the concept of focused and diffuse forms of thinking. In A Mind for Numbers, Oakley explains how distinct these modes are and how we switch between the two throughout the day. We are constantly in pursuit of true periods of focus – … Read More
The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen
Date: August 18, 2020
Categories: general
The thing I’ve tried to do the last few years is really ‘barbell’ the inputs. I basically read things that are either up to this minute or things that are timeless…They are Lindy safe.Yeah. I’m trying to strip out all the stuff in the middle. What I’ve discovered is the number of people who can write … Read More
Lindy effect
Date: August 18, 2020
Categories: general
In Taleb’s 2012 book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder he for the first time explicitly referred to his idea as the Lindy Effect, removed the bounds of the life of the producer to include anything which doesn’t have a natural upper bound, and incorporated it into his broader theory of the Antifragile. If a book has … Read More
pregnant during covid
Date: August 18, 2020
Categories: general
Yet my husband and I have this wonder coming to us: a birth. And, for me, a few weeks of respite, a clean turn away from the code calls ringing out overhead and the spectre of refrigerated trucks. A chance to stop thinking about all the children, and focus on one—this kicking creature, this small … Read More
Third place (Oldenburg)
Date: August 17, 2020
Categories: general
Oldenburg calls one’s “first place” the home and those that one lives with. The “second place” is the workplace—where people may actually spend most of their time. Third places, then, are “anchors” of community life and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction.[1] In other words, “your third place is where you relax in public, … Read More
BMW (best margarita in the world)
Date: August 8, 2020
Categories: general
jim’s recipe 1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice.2 oz tequila.1 oz Cointreau.1 oz Grand Marnier. Shake & enjoy.
Things to do in the belly of the whale
Date: June 18, 2020
Categories: general
Things to Do in the Belly of the WhaleDan Albergotti Measure the walls.Count the ribs.Notch the long days.Look up for blue sky through the spout.Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats.Practice smoke signals.Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices.Organize your calendar.Dream of the beach.Look each wayfor the dim glow … Read More