Tried a textual podcast about organoids with @aneeshsathe.com. Also had Bompa (an AI persona) contribute based on a D20 roll. Promising format that could manage to capture the deliberate nature of long-form writing and the informality of trad. podcasts. roamresearch.com#/app/kinocom...

Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.

As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your d...

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Sharing is this easy.

Aneesh Sathe@aneeshsathe.com · last yr.

If you aren’t on subset you are missing out on the next best app since Google Reader for saving, sharing, commenting on links with security front and center. DM me and we can share our connect codes for private sharing.

Technology and globalisation massively reduced daily physical load for large segments of the world. AI is potentially reducing daily cognitive load for large segments of the world. Q: Will we see the same chronic decay in our evolved cognitive capabilities? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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While reading about the origins of international law, I learned about Grotius’ and his wife’s ingenious escape plan—receive trunks of books, get sent out in said trunk. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...

Two women, a lawyer and a book chest

Today, 19 April, is the anniversary of the death of Maria van Reigersberch, or Reigersbergen the wife of Hugo de Groot a.k.a. Grotius. Her husband is well known for his legal writings in which he laun...

blogs.bl.uk

Putting together a list of “pilgrimages” for my site. Basically, unreasonably long texts. Whereas "quake books" instantly and irrevocably alter one's inner landscape, "pilgrimages" are long and toilsome initiatives undertaken mostly on faith in the transformative power of the journey itself.

And we’re live on iOS. Go ahead and give the gift of interesting with Subset. Save, share and search the best web and app content; it's simple, fast and secure. apps.apple.com/us/app/subse...

‎Subset Network

‎Give the gift of interesting with Subset. Save, share and search the best web and app content; it's simple, fast and secure. BENEFITS + Capture Signal: Save the best web and app content + Sprinkle ...

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Old but scary article. Expect it’s even worse now, across many more sports. How does the cycle get broken, though? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

'These kids are ticking time bombs': The threat of youth basketball

In part one of a two-part series, ESPN explores the dangers of youth basketball -- and how the culture of perpetual competition is jeopardizing the futures of the very stars it hopes to create.

espn.com

Today’s reading is Kleptopia, about the swirling undercurrents of capital amidst the world of high finance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptopia

Kleptopia - Wikipedia

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For some reason, sync engines feel like a Whiteheadean advance in tech. They sweep away a whole bunch of distributed systems problems in a way that feels more substantial than elegant abstractions. electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04...

Building AI apps? You need sync | ElectricSQL

AI apps are collaborative. Building them requires solving resumability, interruptibility, multi‑tab, multi‑device and multi‑user.

electric-sql.com

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” But when everything is a meme, the timeline ain’t that long. At all.

Today’s reading is Kafka on the Shore. Just one book across fiction and non-fiction for a few days, and it’s actually quite pleasant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...

Kafka on the Shore - Wikipedia

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The Simple and Sinister training protocol is GOATed—100 swings and 10 TGUs. Straightforward, quick, flexible. For optimal experience, do under a bright blue sky. www.strongfirst.com/tag/simple-s...

Simple & Sinister Archives | StrongFirst

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Came back to this a few times over the last week. www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

noemamag.com

Went for some fiction for this AM’s reading—Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Murakami’s prose always gets me with its blend of directness and aching beauty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...

Kafka on the Shore - Wikipedia

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Finished The Math Academy Way this AM. Real nice meta-review of what it takes to accelerate talent development. justinmath.com/books/

New podcast queue approach I’m enjoying: don’t save episodes to listen to later. Instead, only one saved episode allowed and that episode must be listened to immediately. In practice, follow a bunch of interesting/reliable shows and choose an episode in the moment after very quick browsing.

Looking for keystone reads on reducing complexity in software engineering. Blogs and essays, not books. To me, reducing complexity means removing non-essential capabilities and/or adding graceful abstractions. What’s the prior art on this?

Reading about cognitive learning strategies in The Math Academy Way. Realised that these ideas are starting to infect how I think about my learning in basically every area. justinmath.com/books/

Not into high finance at all but this seems like a neat approach. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This AM: read some more of The Math Academy Way—and then did my daily math. justinmath.com/books/

This week has started strong: ZACH LOWE IS BACK.

Big tech’s relation to attention-as-resource is similar to how states relate to wind-as-resource? open.spotify.com/episode/0ZIJ...

11: Eugene Wei - Amusing Each Other to Death

Dialectic · Episode

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Matthew McDowell-Sweet@msweet.net · last yr.

Wild. On how one can come to own the wind. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wild. On how one can come to own the wind. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ventography and the spatial politics of wind - Emilia Groupp, 2025

This article explores the co-production of wind energy resources and UK maritime territories in the North Sea. It shows how endeavors to map wind for energy are...

journals.sagepub.com

NBA YT is usually trolling when they title “MUST SEE” and “WILD” endings—not this time. youtube.com/watch?v=B5xt...

MUST-SEE ENDING! Bulls vs Lakers 🤯 | March 27, 2025

YouTube video by NBA

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Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! might actually be required reading for how to orientate in this increasingly sloppified, intensely memetic cultural moment. austinkleon.substack.com

Austin Kleon | Substack

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers. Click to read Austin Kleon, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...

austinkleon.substack.com

“But the web is now 18 years old. It has reached adulthood.” web.archive.org/web/20240522...

The web is dead. Long live the internet

The web -- not to mention social-media apps -- has been abuzz over this essay by Chris Anderson in Wired’s latest US edition. Our changing online habits, he argues, have eclipsed the world wide web

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Gobbling up neural data makes sense on one hand, but I also can’t help thinking that it seems like a little bit of a tarpit idea. “Just a little more data and we’re good.” … “No, just a tad more, I swear that’ll solve it.” … “C’mon, we’re almost there.” www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity

To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.

thetransmitter.org

Taking a spin through JS’s Advice on Upskilling and The Math Academy Way. Helpful right now as I’m trying to advance a bunch of skills in parallel—computing, entrepreneurship, BJJ, math, climbing. justinmath.com/books/

Imagine human bodies grown without complete brains, without consciousness. These are "bodyoids." And today in MIT Technology Review, researchers from Stanford University are ready to talk about them. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1...

Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine

Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.

technologyreview.com

Braudel’s Civilisation and Capitalism? Done. Newfound appreciation for the consistent & compounding ingenuity-at-scale of humanity across millennia & a renewed appreciation for how the forces of capital, labour, tech & ecology entangle & perpetuate one another. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu