growth

A collection of 43 issues
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 5-24-26

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 5-10-26

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 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 4-5-26

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 3-8-26

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.

Espresso Shots 2-8-26

Espresso Shots 2-8-26

childhood dreams, remembering what we do, looking for what's true, addicted to being useful, better meetings as secret weapons, and the 500-mile email mystery.

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