better doing
Why be a ghost?
“Will we be an ancestor to our children…or a ghost? Will we support and guide? Will we haunt and plague? Will our presence fill them with joy and comfort…or fear and pain?” ~ learn more
better doing
How to title your blog post or whatever.
“A title has two goals. First, think of all the people in the world who, if they clicked on your thing, would finish it and love it. Ideally, those people would click. … Other people will hate your thing. It’s […]
tech, startups, internet
Mortgage your 401(k).
Matt Levine covers a new startup offering that allows savers to leverage their retirement accounts 4:1. “There are no margin calls or mark-to-market triggers. If the market falls below a certain level, you aren’t forced to liquidate. The financing is […]
tech, startups, internet
OpenAI’s prompting guide for GPT-4.1.
“GPT-4.1 is trained to follow instructions more closely and more literally than its predecessors, which tended to more liberally infer intent from user and system prompts. This also means, however, that GPT-4.1 is highly steerable and responsive to well-specified prompts […]
tech, startups, internet
The computing breakthrough that could end Big Tech’s AI stranglehold.
Ashlee Vance interviews Guillaume Verdon (aka ‘Beff Jezos’). “Extropic has shown early success with “thermodynamic computing.” It’s a form of computing that Verdon says harnesses the underlying properties of nature and probabilities in far better ways than traditional computers and […]
fun facts
Why do we have half-moons on our fingernails?
“Embedded in your nails are other tiny mysteries, including the light-colored half-moon shape at the bottom of the nail plate. Though few of us stop to think about the purpose of this mark, its existence is a vital part of […]
fun facts
The Wisconsin governor has wild veto powers.
The state’s supreme court has upheld the governor’s right to veto individual words of bills, even if it changes or reverses the meaning of the sentence, paragraph, or bill overall. “[O]ur constitution does not limit the governor’s partial veto power […]
fun facts
Why human hair is limited to a handful of colors.
“Why, with such a vast array of colors all around us, are our hair colors so limited? Well, the pigments in our hair are predetermined by a genetic blueprint that isn’t likely to change anytime soon. Let’s untangle the mystery […]
fun facts
Written by a human.
“Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic….” ~ learn more
on the blockchain
Warren Buffet accidentally makes the case for Bitcoin.
I say accidentally because he is 1000% not a fan of Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency. Yet, “The natural course of government is to make the currency worth less over time.” ~ learn more