espresso-shots

A weekly brew of interesting finds
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.

Espresso Shots 4-12-26

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Espresso Shots 3-01-26

Espresso Shots 3-01-26

zagging creators and omoiyari to curating people, Sunday self-meetings, NYT games dominance, and satellites enshittifying orbit.

Espresso Shots 2-22-26

Espresso Shots 2-22-26

Writing sharpens thinking, incremental growth, intentional scarcity, omnipotence and cognitive debt, and how organizations get sick.

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