https://t.co/6dKKrJIqeF good piece on logistics blind spots in the coming war. Always huge returns in RTS games to crippling resupply (vespene and minerals in SC2!)
The Social Network's mirror image structure:
ACT I:
1) Mark dumped by Erika
2) Works on Facemash - enlists Eduardo
3) Invited in by Winklewoss twins
ACT V:
1. Winklewoss sue Mark
2. Works on Facebook - bins Eduardo
3. Tries to befriend Erika.
(From Into the Woods)
Gatsby's general resolves:
- No wasting time at Shafters
- No more smoking or chewing
- Read one improving book or magazine per week
- Save $5.00 [crossed out] $3.00 per week
- Be better to parents
@superwhisper voice recognition is great. My use cases:
- Claude Code prompts.
- Reading snippets from books I want to capture in Notes.
- Composing teams/slack and emails.
A product where even though the free tier is good I want to pay the dude for making it so good.
“teenagers’ parents usually learn more than they would like about teenagers’ cognitive errors from social-proof tendency. This makes it wise for parents to rely more on manipulating the quality of the peers than on exhortations to their own offspring.”
As a dad, albeit a relatively new dad of a two-year-old, I often think about this Charlie Munger quote when imagining my daughter's future and how to help her:
I once read that the KGB taught operatives to look at someone's eyebrow to give the illusion of keeping eye contact. Does anyone have an authoritative source for this?