Oh man, I forgot this guy existed. The fountain still flows.

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I've hardly had time to even diagonally read, but historically, it's also going to be a cool thing.

So note to self, substitute for investing energy now, I promise I'll invest energy later.

• thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything

Where is this time coming from? Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know.

Two schematics. A hex lattice on the left, a cube lattice on the right. It's a vibe check, a design vibe check, and Claude Design makes it shockingly easy.

Open Continuum full-screen

Computerphile is also amazing. I guess I think everything is amazing. I guess I think everyone is amazing? I really, super don't.

I don't even think anymore.

Worse, I think other people's thoughts.

Mike has a mannerism where he occasionally seems to pull up a sleeve by tugging at his shirt just above the shoulder. I do this now. I do this now actively and have for years. And I'm 100% certain it comes from his YouTube videos. I'm not even a person. I'm just a weird amalgamation of the things I stole from other people.

I still try and step over chairs like Riker, for Christ's sake.

God I'm a husk.

It's a good channel.

Ambiguously, I guess I pay this guy now.

https://substack.com/@natesnewsletter

The stuff is good, it's insightful, it has given me ideas. It's also delivered with breathlessly authority. Delivered with a kind of momentum and certainty that provides a sense of warmth but is void of the introspective pauses that show an acknowledgement of the real confusion intrinsic to the subject.

Maybe I'm interested because it's an independent validation of things that I already feel like are the case and that I knew and that I've been working towards but being given by somebody who's number two in tech on Substack. Whatever that means. That's, like, comforting, I guess?

Unambiguously, I already paid this other guy. but he's basically the coolest guy, so you should watch this. Benn Jordan is basically the person that I wish I was.

I'm embedding his newest vid because it's, I guess, more fresh? But his back catalog is just full of unambiguously fantastic stuff. You should probably subscribe and bell and all the other stupid things and maybe also give him money because he seems to use it for genuinely fantastic stuff and is more transparent than virtually anyone else that I've encountered as a creator.

https://www.youtube.com/@BennJordan

• This: Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare 

• This: Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government 

• This: The Really Dark Truth About Bots 

One at a time, I would just link everything in his catalog. Just go see all of it.