Espresso Shots 8-23-26
From a 1971 social network that never died, a watch-caught heart problem, building without predicting, exams in the age of chatbots, chasing what excites you, and writing snail mail.
From a 1971 social network that never died, a watch-caught heart problem, building without predicting, exams in the age of chatbots, chasing what excites you, and writing snail mail.
Infinite choice to chaotic dogs, lo-fi scrolling to silver bullets, powerful questions to note arrays and why the air in the room is important.
Comic Sans' Watchmen roots, apps build one, classic Macintosh hacks, Suncoast nostalgia, World Cup chunking, solar panels in the Alps, and gardens' healing power.
Private jets, red-and-green squiggles, power tools gone wrong, dogs texting people and how to find out how weird you really are.
Surrender as a life strategy, democracy's bullshit, AI doomers, tiny experiments in uncertainty, Vonnegut's life advice, and rest in peace Om.
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.
Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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.
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