Espresso Shots 7-05-26
Private jets, red-and-green squiggles, power tools gone wrong, dogs texting people and how to find out how weird you really are.
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Surrender as a life strategy, democracy's bullshit, AI doomers, tiny experiments in uncertainty, Vonnegut's life advice, and rest in peace Om.
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Tombstone exercises, founder mode, jargon monoxide, 8-bit baseball, the sky you should’ve seen and silent reading parties.
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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.
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Punk, zines, vanishing benches, weather-painted Rothkos, and the math that proves most of your worries never happen.
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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.
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Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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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
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.
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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