Espresso Shots 5-3-26
Entertainment-pervading politics to Pixar's three-pitch rule, AI's Jevons Paradox, Game Theory's Prisoner's Dilemma, and swapping doomscrolling for comic books
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Fault-tolerant computers, cosmic perspective, Shazam's sound fingerprints, Coyote vs. ACME, prediction markets, authority, music, sleep, and turning 55.
55 for 55
I now have somewhere around 39% of my time left on the planet. Simple math: 55 divided by 90 puts me at roughly 61% done.
Espresso Shots 4-19-26
AI's boiling frog effect on cognition, resurrecting a 1992 MUD, agentic systems and bottlenecks, secret recordings of 10,000 concerts, and why a project will save you.
Espresso Shots 4-12-26
Corporate chaos, dopamine chasing, health rabbit holes, locker dives, a Civil War submarine mystery, and Mr. Brightside.
Espresso Shots 4-5-26
AI augmentation and generative AI vegetarianism to the resilience paradox, chocolate heists, the slow death of new music, mazes and labyrinths, and doing what you want.
Espresso Shots 3-29-26
From inner life to stupid ideas, the magic of streaming radio, the case for slowness, and why automating broken things just breaks them faster.
Espresso Shots 3-22-26
Quiet things, optimized selves, AI psychosis, sync music, lightning strikes, beautiful questions, and why making has always been about mattering.
Espresso Shots 3-15-26
Claude Code, phantom fluency, gut instinct, block universes, and the noble path of building things for each other.
Espresso Shots 3-8-26
Zen motorcycles and David Lynch's Star Wars to Earth's secret soundtrack, philosopher thinking, MacGyver creativity, and the river of endless scroll.