Author: Andrew
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You Are Not Late
A good day to re-read this Kevin Kelly essay from 2014. I think I believe he’s right. The internal disagreement (cope, perhaps) I felt reading it is that the big things we’re inventing right now, the things exciting everyone and causing $1 trillion IPOs, are created by a few big companies with a ton of…
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Birthday: 33rd
33! Things feel, in life right now, as if they’re coalescing into some kind of clearer notion of what I want to be doing. It’s become clear that the last few years have been a slow move towards something. That is clear because I am quite aware that four years ago, having left a job…
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Traditional Georgian Dance to Future
Today’s my birthday. 33rd year – the Jesus year – is nigh! I think I’ll live this year with the attitude of this video. It’s simply wonderful. —— Also, there is an infinite amount of content (signs h/t Baudrillard) to be created. Many, many of them of unbelievably imaginative and interesting; such as these Georgians…
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The year is 2028
This one got me good:
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Is AI Going to Destroy Our Lives or Not?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-199200508 Great post on what is materializing and what is not, and maybe how it’s a particularly challenging time to be 18-25!
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June, 2026: Way of Living
I have some ideal outcomes for June: Three ways to try and achieve this: One of the primary things across anybody I’ve read about or come to respect who come to do something in the world, and in their own life, is that they had a particular intensity and focus. That’s what June is for.…
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What I Definitely Don’t Know but Definitely Suspect
Narrative vs. Molecules To say that there is much that I don’t understand about the markets and the real world would be comically overselling myself. In this way, I’m too much of a rationalist. My impression was actions is that there should be legible and tangible outcomes; Newton’s 3rd law, equal and opposite reactions. Perhaps,…
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A Benediction Worth Remembering
This benediction from church last Sunday, 5/24/2026, struck me and entered right into the heart of it all for me. Life is short, And we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who make the journey with us. So… be swift to love, and make haste to be kind. And may…
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The Century of the Self
Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, worked with the corporations to create a “democracity”: a democracy where people were, and say themselves, as consumers and their every desires were catered to, while the elites of the corporations, and ultimately government, used this to control (tame) them through a perceived democracy. Freud’s insight Bernays used was…
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AI disproves an Erdos problem
A claim from OpenAI about this being the first time “that a prominent open problem, central to a subfield of mathematics, has been solved autonomously by AI.” And here’s a Marginal Revolution post with some outside commentary. My understanding is that this is: 1. a big deal and 2. a great setup for the AI…