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A weekly brew of interesting finds
Espresso Shots 6-21-26

Espresso Shots 6-21-26

Tombstone exercises, founder mode, jargon monoxide, 8-bit baseball, the sky you should’ve seen and silent reading parties.

Espresso Shots 6-14-26

Espresso Shots 6-14-26

Manufactured rock bands, molly guards, Freddie Mercury's aversion, shoelaces, grief, and the joy equation. And a bonus coversation on what it means to live well.

Espresso Shots 6-7-26

Espresso Shots 6-7-26

Punk, zines, vanishing benches, weather-painted Rothkos, and the math that proves most of your worries never happen.

Espresso Shots 5-31-26

Espresso Shots 5-31-26

Niceness as a skill to game theory, photographic memory myths, solar-powered websites, Earth's radio bubble, and the hidden cost of taking yourself too seriously.

Espresso Shots 5-24-26

Espresso Shots 5-24-26

Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.

Espresso Shots 5-17-26

Espresso Shots 5-17-26

Data taken without asking to algorithms dispensing outrage, Foo Fighters going intimate, WeatherStar nostalgia, and what phone cradling is doing to our fingers and our thinking.

Espresso Shots 5-10-26

Espresso Shots 5-10-26

From the boring internet, empty calories, and botified social media to Everest, Bourdain, conversations that surprise you, and why writing is still the most important skill you can have.

Espresso Shots 5-3-26

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

Espresso Shots 4-26-26

Espresso Shots 4-26-26

Fault-tolerant computers, cosmic perspective, Shazam's sound fingerprints, Coyote vs. ACME, prediction markets, authority, music, sleep, and turning 55.

Espresso Shots 4-19-26

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.

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