Category: Notes
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Seattle Panegyric
A place isn’t really yours until it’s explored. At least, I think so. And I’ve found that being familiar with the pavement a few streets over makes me more grounded.
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The Right Way to Write
I am going to write 8 blog posts before the end of the year. Hopefully 9 to make up for the lousy one, but don’t count on it. With about ~5 weeks on the clock, it’s certainly not going to be easy, and the posts certainly not quality. But I’m calling an audible on the…
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Living In Media Res
There’s this great Vsauce video that I’ve been thinking about lately where Michael discusses some of the Illusions of Time that everyone (at least in the modern age) seems to experience. In it, he fantastically labels the realization that not only do people spatially separated from oneself have their own lives, but also those separated…
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Life is Complex, Man
20th century science is a bizarre tapestry of insight, achievement, and doom. Something something about quantum, the computer, and the fusion/fission bombs. One of my favorites in the mosaic is Complexity Theory, the study of how nonlinear systems, often with incredibly simple constraints, and transition into spontaneously ordered states. It’s a relatively new field, burgeoning…
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Scaled-up Jogs
I’ve been running a ton recently, I’m training for the Austin Marathon. Race day is in about four weeks! The regimen has my cardio up to par with that of my high school self, when I played tennis about 20 hours a week. It’s been much more enjoyable than I anticipated, and the allure of…
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A Fussy Feline
I have a 14-ish-year-old black cat that I get to reunite with every time I return home from school. He’s getting on in age, but either because of the way he has convinced my parents to coddle him or by luck of the genetic lottery, you wouldn’t really know it. He has always been a…
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Block the Academics
In Patrick O’Shaughnessy’s recent podcast w/ Balaji Srinivasan called “Optimizing Your Inputs” among several interesting thought chains on a concept called the information diet, Balaji talks about blockchain in such a spirited way it is practically contagious. His idea of moving academia on chain to improve visibility and accountability and ultimately streamline the exponentially growing…
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On an Exodus
A great read by @micsolana on tech & the bay, got me thinking about the recipients of the “tech exodus” and how cities like Austin can play their cards to extract maximum value from the supposedly impending influx. One of the key points made in the post was that tech workers have not been the…
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An Introduction
“Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and keep questioning yourself.” When Elon Musk said that on November 30, 2016, he called it the single best piece of advice. He’s probably said that about lots of advice before and since then, but I think this one works pretty well for the intro post for this…
To Be Determined 