Espresso Shots 1-2-25
"It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it." - Ronnie Corbett
Here's my weekly update with a few interesting random findings that I came across the last week or two. I am going to try to make sure they're here in time for you to enjoy with your morning coffee (or beverage of choice) every Saturday or Sunday, and include some of my thoughts around them.
As we exit the year, I'm declaring my annual link bankruptcy.
I've dumped all the other interesting links I couldn't get to write about this year below for your reading pleasure so I can start 2025 with my 'queue' empty.
Something in there may inspire you.
A Quick Gear Drop ☕️
As mentioned in the annual review post, the two most popular shirts of the year were 'nope' and 'own your shit'.
So, I figured it would be fun to roll in 2025 with some fun coffee mugs!
Available today in both 'own your shit' and 'nope' variants to start the new years meetings right. And, if whiskey is more your thing, they are also available as a low-profile rocks glass.
The Latest Drippings ☕️
Here's a braindump of 40 or so random things I didn't get to summarize this year:
- The Plot to Poison Children’s Minds
- Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
- The Doomscroll Industrial Complex: How Anxiety Became a Business Model
- The Story of Stent
- 77 Facts That Blew Our Minds in 2024
- Zork: The Great Inner Workings
- The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)
- The State of Newsletters In 2024
- My approach to running a link blog
- Eisenhower Matrix, Iterative Decision-Making & Compounding Decisions
- How I approach humor
- The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed
- Is Having a Purpose In Life Bullshit?
- Why you shouldn't trust platitudes
- Why Having A Purpose In Life Is Bullshit
- Lego has an IP problem
- ‘Founder Mode’ and the Art of Mythmaking
- The Art of Not Living in Fear
- ABC News caved when it settled with Trump
- Anti-social behaviour
- Up to Date Health Benefits of Coffee
- The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
- Gambler's fallacy
- The Biggest Bomb in the World
- What People Get Wrong About Friendly Introverts
- Why You Need a News Vacation
- When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened
- Animated Timelapse of The London Underground
- Living in alignment
- How Defining Yourself By What You Hate Makes You Miserable
- Strategy is Not War; It’s Gardening
- For Love of God, Make Your Own Website
- How to turn problems into a curiosity engine
- We Never Stop Growing
- The Best of What You Have
- How to turn problems into a curiosity engine
- No instructions needed
- Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker
Amor Fati ✌🏻