to your health
Meet the psychedelic boom’s first responders.
“With more tripping will come more psychic terror. A new movement of volunteers will guide you through your brain melt.” ~ learn more
better doing
You suck at Excel, with Joel Spolsky.
This private presentation to an audience of engineers is now available on Youtube and its great. Joel was a program manager on the Excel team in the early ‘90s. “The way you are using Excel causes errors, creates incomprehensible spaghetti […]
better doing
Excellence is a habit, but so is failure.
“We often hear that making small incremental improvements every day can lead to great things. … But there’s another side to this story that we don’t discuss as often: how incremental neglect and small missteps can accumulate and lead to […]
better doing
Proof you can do hard things.
“When a precocious yet nonconformist teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? “ ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
AI and the automation of work.
From writer and investor Ben Evans. “ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years?” ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
GPT-4 is getting worse over time, not better.
This mirrors my (very limited) personal experience. “At least one study shows how the June version of GPT-4 is objectively worse than the version released in March on a few tasks.” ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
How an infant formula startup recovered from an FDA recall.
A bit of publicity almost killed this startup, Bobbie, by drawing the attention of regulators to their pilot. This is the story of how they turned the situation around and capitalized on the moment. A couple years since this article […]
fun facts
An ‘aggressive’ sea otter is snatching surfers’ boards.
“There is no clear explanation for the sea mammal’s behavior, say authorities, who has been seen riding and gnawing surfboards” ~ learn more
fun facts
Restaurant brothers.
“I decided today that I’m going to see if I can find the restaurant with the highest number of brothers.” This thread starts at “2 Bros Pizza” but does not end there. Internet collaboration at its finest. ~ learn more
under the microscope
More signs that resistance training protects brain from Alzheimer’s.
Note that this is a study done in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease, so it’s an imperfect proxy for humans. But it’s probably a safe bet that resistance training doesn’t harm! “After four weeks of training, the mice with […]