read paper books. listen to audio recordings if you want, and have a kindle around if you like it, but not at the expense of paper books not out of nostalgia or tradition but out of efficacy physical media sticks around

just set my VPN location to Brazil and doomscrolled on twitter for a bit gm ✨

a solid 99% of my bugs are not because of some complicated logic mistake or a subtle change to an imported library or an arcane syntax update, which is where i focus 99% of the next several hours looking it's a missing comma, semicolon, or letter

the unrealized cap gains thing will never happen but the mere fact that it's being put forth reveals how stupid they think people are gm

one thing people often fail to consider is that higher income households are the cohort with the employers who provide lower income jobs when you attempt to punish the successful you assume that what you're inflicting will simply be absorbed. but if only higher income households are taxed aggressively then those taxes will either result in business closures or passed down as lower wages of course, the successful are among the best at redirecting costs and passing on liabilities to others. if they have to pay more that's fine: they'll just charge more. if their business has to close, that's fine: file bankruptcy & start over or retire. the ones who lose are folks left without an employer, or in a now-prohibitively regulated industry w/ diminished demand taxes + regulations follow the primary law of ecology: you can never do just one thing i believe that most of the woes and problems in the world are not the result of malice or stupidity but simply a widespread inability to see past first-order consequences

make it make sense

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. —Richard Feynman

a great manager gets the best out of people. that's the value they bring and why they can justify not just their existence but good pay too needless to say, great managers are very scarce but to dismiss management outright is to misunderstand the role. it's about increasing the leverage of a firm. getting more with less.

Voltaire may have been peak France

do these box office records ever control for ticket price inflation? pretty sure we're gonna just keep breaking box office records in perpetuity

picanha is on the menu tonight fam courtesy of K&C Cattle here in Austin, TX

people are more focused on being physically fit than mentally fit but it's the latter that should be sorted first

people are going to go out and vote in november based mainly on fear of social judgment + out-of-context tiktok clips, and then proudly share an 'i voted' sticker on instagram for the likes best to mentally prepare now

the craziest thing about the placebo effect is that it still works even when you tell people that it's a placebo "The efficacy of open-label placebo was superior to that of no treatment. Relative to no treatment, the placebo, under each information condition, accounted for more than 50% of the drug effect." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.3006175

y'all, the pool of competition for hard things is so small do the hard things. put in the effort. grit is an insane advantage.

samourai wallet left me. phoenix wallet left me. mutiny wallet left me.😢 what are y'all using for wallets these days? (especially lightning)

proof of slab i learned a lot about concrete but it's level and it's finished so it's going in the Win column

me: leave me alone gov't: "No we're gonna have MANDATES to FORCE you to do things under the threat of PENALTIES and FINES." me: ok gfy gov't: "How dare you"

In a better world, every family will learn from children. You are in such a hurry to teach them. Nobody seems to learn from them, and they have much to teach you. —Osho

is there a good argument for living in california that does not involve the weather/temperature/beach etc.? i don't know many people who live there, but the ones who do only seem to mention the weather as the thing they like