Asides
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Cryogenic sleep logic
If cryogenic sleep were generally available, why would anyone choose to not be frozen? Go to sleep, wake up in a better world. This offer is too good: if everyone takes it, who will be left to actually build the better world?
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Cardinal rule of internet comments:
The value of an individual comment is inversely proportional to it’s nesting (indentation) within the thread.
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Plays and movies
It took me a while to get into The Castle by Kafka. It can definitely be a boring book, but it doesn’t have to be. What finally got me into the book was this: I stopped imagining the scenery of the story as if it were a movie or a television show: an entire world […]
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Chamath on business strategy
1. Launch revolutionary product 2. Sell into fragmented, undifferentiated market 3. Expand scope + vertically integrate 4. Expand into adjacent markets Result: Own market share, pricing power & profits. Chamath on $TSLA and $AAPL
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Haskell is just a DSL for category theory.
Haskell is just a DSL for category theory.
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DFTM: Don’t Fear the Manual
Instead of RTFM (Read The F***ing Manual) prefer the acronym DFTM (Don’t Fear The Manual). It’s nicer, and it has a theme song.
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Societies of control
The adolescent stage of societies of control. The nascent stage. (Also, it’s so meta that Genius has Deleuze’s Postscript annotated. Not sure how to feel about this.)
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Lindy
Heuristic: don’t take book recommendations from someone who’s favorite book was published in their lifetime. (Lindy effect)
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Liberty & network effects
It is easy to forget that at the end of the day accessibility improvements benefits everybody, not just those with disability. @boagworld This is generally true because of network effects. More liberties for social minorities result in more liberties for all.
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Museums are retirement homes for culture
Museums are retirement homes for culture.