Espresso Shots 10-18-26
From forgetting the algorithms to Jim Henson’s puppets, a dramatic Ironman win, a view on friendships, thinking like a lab team, and choosing what you attend to.
From forgetting the algorithms to Jim Henson’s puppets, a dramatic Ironman win, a view on friendships, thinking like a lab team, and choosing what you attend to.
From Claude writing code and authoring apps to pirating the pirates, retro gaming, beauty in DVD menus, and the Tildeverse.
Most old ways survive not because they’re right, but because questioning them takes effort, so the default quietly wins.
From the geology of sticking with it to Game Theory secrets, mathematicians, David Bowie's Proust Questionnaire, and an analemma over the Callanish Stones.
From inverted asteroids and revived BBSs to MouthPad independence, archaic intelligence, exiting the cave, Steve Jobs's lost decade, and one true purpose.
From optimizing the whole flow to rest versus idleness, high achievers chasing success, mindfulness's hidden risks, pinball, and an island that appeared then vanished.
From people telling you AI is changing everything to the glitch that left Poland off the map, a hamster's wheel experiment, a wind phone, the impossible rhythm illusion, and a swarm of blood robots.
From lawn-mowing algorithms to being bald being better, energy hoarding, lighthouse rescues, digital sanctuaries, and the case for writing anyway.
Private jets, red-and-green squiggles, power tools gone wrong, dogs texting people and how to find out how weird you really are.