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Software Is Beating The World
14+ min · · Editor’s Note: Due to the length of this piece, you may need to click a button to read the whole thing in your email. Every single stupid, loathsome, and ugly story in tech is a result of the… · Shared by 150, including Simon Fossom
mayooshin.com
5 Things to Do When You Have Too Many Ideas and Never Finish Anything.
4 min · · What do you do when you’re overwhelmed with too many ideas? Do you abandon them, or do you finish what you start? Juggling multiple ideas and goals—to write, exercise, read more, wake up early and so… · Shared by 7324, including Peter Herger, Simon Fossom, mari, Gabriele, Essaadi, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Andy Sporring - 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Essays, Scott Monty
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This is Your Reminder to Say 'NO'
6 min · · They cost me a lot of money. It’s a pretty weird thing to collect. But they help me every single day. They are a bunch of historical documents of minor historical significance—it’s probably a stretch… · Shared by 465, including Simon Fossom
Big Think
"Opposites attract” is a myth: You likely share many traits with your partner
3 min · · There’s some truth to the old maxim that “opposites attract.” An iron-clad example is magnets, whose north and south poles are reliably drawn to each other. In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang… · Shared by 576, including Simon Fossom
Big Think
7 thought experiments that will make you question everything
7 min · · The best thought experiments challenge our beliefs and offer fresh perspectives on how the world operates. · Shared by 1479, including Simon Fossom, DP
sookocheff.com
What complex systems can teach us about building software
10 min · · As a software system scales it becomes sufficiently large that the number of working parts, coupled with the number of working programmers making changes on it, makes the behaviour of the system… · Shared by 167, including Esther Schindler, Simon Fossom
ScienceAlert
We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of Time
3 min · · The ancient Romans were master builders and engineers, perhaps most famously represented by the still-functional aqueducts. · Shared by 431, including Simon Fossom
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A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store
5 min · · Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are… · Shared by 132, including Simon Fossom
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Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting
12+ min · · Shared by 758, including Alexander Seifert, Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Simon Fossom, Matt Schlicht, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
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🧠 How to find your game
3 min · · The key lens to evaluate all these different options through are your personal unfair advantages. · Shared by 94, including Simon Fossom
The Atlantic
The Biggest Problem With Remote Work
Summary · 6 min · · Companies need a new kind of middle manager: the synchronizer. · Shared by 1395, including TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Simon Fossom, Katja Evertz, Gerd Leonhard, Ines Bieler, yeon, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Scott Monty, getAbstract, Felix M, Ed Zitron, WeWork
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The Satellite Renaissance
14+ min · · A deep dive into the burgeoning space economy · Shared by 160, including Simon Fossom, Dan Shipper 📧
Scientific American
Traveling Backward in Time Is Kind of Hard
11+ min · · We already have the means to skip ahead in time, but going backward is a different wormhole · Shared by 200, including Simon Fossom
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A Non-Definitive Guide to Non-Duality
20+ min · · A primer on unsplintering your reality · Shared by 89, including Simon Fossom, Dan Shipper 📧, irene-rubio
The New Atlantis
How “post-rationalism” is reshaping tech culture
19+ min · · Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment · Shared by 175, including TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Alexia Bonatsos, David Wallace-Wells, Simon Fossom
The Atlantic
The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking
5 min · · The human brain could explain why AI programs are so good at writing grammatically superb nonsense. · Shared by 430, including Felix M, Steven Pinker, Gerd Leonhard, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Yann LeCun, John Hagel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Simon Fossom