Boris Smus
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Free of metaphor and myth, he grinds a stubborn crystal: the infinite map of the One who is all His stars. https://smus.com
When a bridge collapses, blaming gravity is a non-answer. Engineers are supposed to design for gravity, and people who design companies should similarly design for financial gravity. This book is about how to do that. smus.com/books/incorr...
Defying Financial Gravity
When a bridge collapses, blaming gravity is a non-answer. Engineers are supposed to design for gravity, and people who design companies should similarly design for financial gravity. This book is…
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should i pick east or west germany? hard to say since im in berlin. accompanied by www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ky...
Just finished The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley. We're "walking sacks of seawater" carrying a Precambrian tide pool in every cell. Half evolutionary philosophy, half poetic memoir. "Here time becomes space." Best read outdoors, slowly. smus.com/books/the-im...
The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey is a collection of personal naturalist story-essays from the 1940s and 1950s. It's hard to classify, but I would describe it as a highly imaginative intersection…
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New on invention.cards: Stories are branches inside the full tech tree — follow a curated chain of discoveries without losing the surrounding context. Plus 1,500 new era-styled images and a mobile swipe UI. smus.com/invention-ca...
E-ink isn't nostalgia but a line of defense for cognitive sovereignty against feeds and AI overreliance. I just open-sourced supernote-cli to pipe distraction-free thinking from Supernote straight into digital workflows. smus.com/notes/2026/s...
supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent NYT piece argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not…
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Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench app for macOS. • Own your history & memory: plain text files you control. • Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread. • Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors. No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-...
my little agent orchestrator is growing up. just playing around with some names now. wdyt?
Built a NetHack-style roguelike and got an LLM to play it. LLMs are terrible at parsing ASCII maps. Solved it by converting FOV to explicit directions — "NEW: N, E" vs "VISITED: S" vs "BLOCKED: W". Once it knows what's novel vs explored, it actually navigates.
My e-ink tablet's handwriting recognition has a 27% error rate. So I benchmarked local VLMs against cloud models: Claude Opus 4.5: 3% error, 6 seconds qwen3-vl:8b (local): 5% error, 74 seconds A 2% accuracy hit to keep my journal entirely on-device? I'll take that trade. smus.com/notes/2025/l...
love that my TTS reader pronounces Xi (in Xi Jinping) as “roman eleven”. something very fitting about that
The most fruitful moments for contemplation are often the least conducive to capture. So I built a way to capture from anywhere - watch, phone, or e-paper - all flowing to plaintext. The pursuit of frictionless capture
The pursuit of frictionless capture
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how about instead, the government pays talented people to come to the US and contribute their amazing talent, grit, and creativity?
Just a reminder that I'm offering free #UX mentoring sessions for UX designers that want help with their teams (this is for personal growth, I don't do product consulting) jenson.org/go/mentor
Mentor Meeting | Scott Jenson | Cal.com
Mentor Meeting
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i saw two shooting stars last night i wished on them but they were only satellites is it wrong to wish on space hardware? i wish i wish i wish you'd care
i would like to conduct research on the people that would like to drink this beverage
#UIST2025 Student Innovation Contest (SIC) is now accepting submissions on PCS! This year’s theme is “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the Frontiers of Multi-Modal Haptics.” 🔗 details: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ 🗓️ deadline: July 18, 2025
UIST 2025 - Student Innovation Context
Join the UIST Student Innovation Contest (SIC) 2025 and help shape the future of immersive interaction! In partnership with DataFeel, this year’s theme — “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the…
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My notes on a mind bending book about how culture runs two flywheels that make humanity great: generational and genetic.
Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
Humans are remarkably successful as a species. Why? Many would say it's because we're just so darn smart compared to other animals, but Henrich suggests that individual intelligence plays a small…
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