Town Hall #23: Clown World
Fun Stuff
- ☆ Against the Advice of My Superintelligence
- ☆ "work hard, play hard"
- Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix
- To Chelsea & Mom, Happy Mothers' Day
Tech Stuff
- Publishable Network Contracts in Scrapscript
- VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024)
- Metabootstrapped Messaging Protocols
- ☆ The Acme of Software
- ☆ Kyle Explains "Legacy Software" to the Aliens
Appearances
Catch Me Outside
| 2024.08.01-04 | Idyllwild, US | FWB |
| 2024.08.24-25 | Santa Cruz, US | !!Con |
| 2024.10.14-18 | Porto, PT | NDC Porto |
| 2024.10.19-21 | Las Vegas, US | WWWY |
| 2024.10.21-25 | Los Angeles, US | SPLASH |
| 2024.10.25-28 | Los Angeles, US | RIPPLE |
| 2024.11.06-08 | Malmö, SE | Øredev |
| 2024.11.09-10 | Ontario, US | AX Chibi |
Books
| ★★★★★ | review | The Sellout :: Paul Beatty |
| ★★ | review | Slow Productivity :: Cal Newport |
| review | Quantations :: Joseph A. Stirt, M.D. | |
| ★★★★ | review | The Sparrow :: Mary Doria Russell |
| ★★ | review | Co-Intelligence :: Ethan Mollick |
| ★★★ | review | The Politics of Design :: Ruben Pater |
| ★★ | review | The Overstory :: Richard Powers |
| ★★★ | review | User-Friendly :: Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant |
| ★★★ | review | The Cold Start Problem :: Andrew Chen |
| ★★ | review | Going Infinite :: Michael Lewis |
| ★★ | review | Build :: Tony Fadell |
| ★★★★★ | review | The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt :: Edmund Morris |
| ★★ | review | The Art of Product Design :: Hardi Meybaum |
| ★★★★ | review | Speaker for the Dead :: Orson Scott Card |
| ★★★★ | review | Ender's Game :: Orson Scott Card |
| ★★ | review | Effortless :: Greg McKeown |
| ★★★★ | review | The Fifth Season :: N. K. Jemisin |
| ★★★★ | review | Distrust that Particular Flavor :: William Gibson |
| ★★★ | review | The Player of Games :: Iain M. Banks |
Thoughts
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| 2024.07.25 | why do they put "no trespassing" signs on all the places i want to go |
| 2024.07.22 | Isn’t it weird how books are broadly sorted into “fake” and “not fake”? |
| 2024.07.22 | IMHO Norah Jones was probably Ravi Shankar's greatest work |
| 2024.07.12 | "The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them." |
| 2024.07.07 | "This performance inspired me years ago. It made me want to play the guitar really badly. Now after years of study dedication and hard work, I'm proud to say I can play the guitar really badly." |
| 2024.06.15 | y'all'n't ready for this spreadsheet demo |
| 2024.06.09 | jet lag. 4:30 in norway. daytime? people call taxis, laughing with the cops. a girl in heels chases me, barking, while her friends giggle. |
| 2024.05.31 | i'm wearing three sticks of deodorant today; the people will see me long before they smell me |
| 2024.05.28 | my cicadian rhythm is wrecked -- i've been waking up every twelve years |
| 2024.05.09 | "that's called a shantytown, and it's where the city draws its surplus unskilled labour from." via The Player of Games |
Finds
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