Author: Andrew
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Note to self: Skills I’m Interesting in Learning
Believe it or not, there are better ways I could be spending my time than waiting on the world by scrolling Twitter. Here’s a list of things to learn that come to mind: It almost feels childish to have to write about this, but I’m recognizing there I need to start doing more and learning…
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Why Smart Money Seems Dumb Right Now
What’s that Warren Buffett quote about when the tide goes out you’ll see who’s been swimming naked? Seems to me like we’re about to see a lot of willies. Every day since the Iran War started, one opens Yahoo Finance, or whatever your app of choice is, and sees one of two headlines corresponding with…
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I’ve Been Thinking About the Strait of Hormuz.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Strait of Hormuz recently. What would you do if it closed? That’s probably not even the primary question: you didn’t even know it existed a month ago. How many layers, then, do you pull back to start trying to understand what you would do if it closed when…
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Tour de France: Drinking Raids
Have been thinking about why it feels like learning about things like this promotes a sense of other-world-ness. I just think, “this kind of charm and uniqueness is gone.” I’m not sure it really is, and one could choose to live this way, but the culture does something to enforce or not enforce a belief…
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What’s Rational vs. What’s Real
I bought a decent amount (for us) of crypto in late 2021 (“bad” time) and held it through the whole bear market and next bull market, until last Tuesday when I decided to sell it hours before President Trump’s threat to kill 90 million people in Iran. 4 years isn’t that much time spent in…
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Philosophers at AI labs
Maybe about a year ago, I remember telling Michael that I thought it would make sense for the big AI companies to hire philosophers. That philosophers might be one of the last “jobs” left. A thousand other thoughts or predictions, if you can call this remark one, since then have not come to pass.
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It is Sunday
This is possible, it would just take a higher standard for what spending your money and your time means. And by “you” and “your”, I mean me and mine.
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My pendulum swings
After about two months now of using AI very heavily, exploring new coding and agent tools, I am again swinging back towards a very Wendell Berry-esque feeling towards all of it. At the same time as my usage has been going up, this very interesting nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s has come into…
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Why ‘Cost Disease’ Is the Secret Force Behind America’s Toxic Solitude
Interesting post on a fix to the “anti-social century” maybe being possible through social subsidies. Through the lens of Baumol’s cost disease. We’ve gotten more isolated because technological progress in social areas drives us to spend more time alone: Netflix is cheaper than a movie theatre, etc. etc. Would be interesting to see a small…
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Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)
Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…