Moon

Everything here is not advice, just my philosophical glimpse of the world.

[WOLF @WOLF_Financial]

ELON MUSK RUNS THE SAME 5-STEP ALGORITHM ON EVERYTHING HE BUILDS

He calls it a mantra. Says he's made every one of these mistakes more times than he cares to remember.

Here's the process, in order:

1. Question every requirement. No matter how smart the person who set it, the requirement is still wrong to some degree.

2. Delete the part or the process step. If you're not later forced to add back at least 10% of what you deleted, you didn't delete enough.

3. Simplify and optimize. But only after the first two steps.

4. Speed it up.

5. Automate it.

The order is the whole point. His most common mistake from a career of building:

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that shouldn't exist."

Speeding up or automating a step you should have deleted just means you spend effort perfecting something that never needed to be there.

[aditii @aditiitwt]

Referred a friend for a job

Now HR wants to interview me again 😭

[The Golden One @TheGloriousLion]

Little Bear is great. I can highly recommend it if you have children.

• Calm, slow scenes (not ADHD cutting between scenes).
• Wholesome setting (mother, father, child). Little Bear is gentle, well-adjusted, and respectful to his parents. Mother Bear is motherly and caring. Father Bear is a classical father (not the “silly dad” that you often see nowadays).
• Not overly saturated colours.
• Nice, calm music.

[Moon @Mahalaler]

https://t.co/dCxUCl5QZr

[Divya Kukreti @div_yahan]

Some amazing articles I read on Substack last weekend

[koreanoli @koreanoli]

Decision to leave (2022)

[INTERIOR PORN @INTERIORPORN1]

OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭

[Mark Palmer @MarketPalmer_]

Here's how long a 30 year mortgage takes to pay off:

– No extra payments = 30 years
– 1 extra payment each year = 25 years
– 2 extra payments each year = 21 years
– 3 extra payments each year = 18 years
– 6 extra payments each year = 13 years
– 12 extra payments each year = 8 years

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

These yellow pit stains are usually caused by deodorant or antiperspirant mixing with your sweat. You can remove them by spraying the area with 3% hydrogen peroxide. Let this sit for an hour and then throw the garment into the wash. For more stubborn stains, soak the garment in Oxiclean overnight, then wash. Note that Oxiclean is fine on certain fibers (e.g., cotton), but not others (e.g., silk). Always read labels before using a product.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

I.M. Pei, the architect who designed the Louvre's glass pyramid, used to put it this way. In Western buildings, a window is a hole that lets in light and air. In Chinese buildings, a window is a picture frame. And the garden is always painted on the other side.

These are called 漏窗 (lou chuang), or "leaky windows." Wind. Moonlight. Glimpses of the garden, framed by every cutout in the wall. It all leaks through.

A garden designer named Ji Cheng published a whole manual on this in 1635. The Craft of Gardens. The final chapter is titled "Borrowed Scenery." Ji called it the most important part of designing a garden.

He named four kinds of borrowing. Distant: mountains, rivers, far horizons. Adjacent: the neighbor's roof, a wall, a tree next door. Upward: clouds, branches against the sky, even the stars at night. Downward: a pond, the rocks below. Every shape and height in these images is doing one of those four jobs.

In Suzhou, a canal city near Shanghai, the oldest surviving garden was built in the 1040s. It has 108 of these windows along a single corridor. No two are the same. Each frames a different slice of the same pond and the same hills.

By the early 1900s, Suzhou had more than 170 private gardens. Nine of them are now UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Researchers in 2021 photographed almost 3,000 windows across 15 of these gardens, just to train an AI that could tell the patterns apart.

The shapes meant something too. Pine for long life. Plum blossoms for purity. A bat anywhere in the pattern brought good luck to the household. Phoenix for wealth.

There's a pattern called "ice crack." Lines splinter across the wall like cracks on a frozen pond. Scholars adopted it as their own signature. For them, it stood for the moment ice breaks and spring begins, when life starts moving again.

The point of the design was simple. You should never see the whole garden at once. You walk a path, a wall blocks the view, then a window opens it again, framed differently each time. The Chinese proverb for it: "by detours, access to secrets."

A 2024 paper from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University showed the ice-crack pattern is actually stronger than a regular grid when the weight on top is uneven. Four hundred years later, the math still works.

[Priyank Ahuja @ahuja_priyank]

My sister grabbed my Apple iPhone 17 ProMax

She looked at my photos and said,
“Why do these look so average?”

Same phone.
Same camera.
But I was only using 30% of what it can actually do.

She changed a few settings

And suddenly my photos looked like they belonged on a billboard.

Here are the exact settings she fixed 👇

[Shea Serrano @SheaSerrano]

shoutout everybody who took the time to answer my questions about mechanical keyboards

this is what i ended up going with

[Jay @thetrickytrade]

Wait! Carl Friedrik finally launched a full aluminium version of their carry-ons?

Good lord, is this thing beautiful! This will 100% replace one of my Rimowas (if and when one dies, that is).

Honestly, looks way better than Rimowa: more character. And you’re far less likely to spot the same suitcase on every fourth person at the airport, as you do with Rimowas these days.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

here you can compare. longer jacket + higher rise trousers + extended shoulder = more flattering silhouette. gold statue looks like a man in a younger brother's outfit.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

TRUNK SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you're interested in bespoke tailoring or shoemaking and based in the United States, I have some trunk show announcements to share with you. Since Twitter recently changed their formatting for posts, I will be doing these as threads. 🧵

[Ben Horwitz @horwitzben]

I made the anti-Grammarly. Mess up your emails with AI.

https://t.co/R6kdTpoc0W

[Rossium @rossium]

This 1 hour MIT lecture on portfolio theory will teach you more about building real wealth than 10 years at any wealth management firm.

Bookmark this & watch, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week. Then read the article below.

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 1 hour MIT lecture will teach you more about building real Generational Wealth than 20 years inside any hedge fund, investment bank or financial institution.

Bookmark & watch, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this week. Then read the article below.

[SHAV★ @shavnyuy]

Here’s proof that we need better layouts..

This 2,912 sq ft home in Thalassery, Kerala, fits a full family program; four bedrooms, private courtyard, lily pond, well, kitchen garden; not by building bigger but by building around three distinct functional zones organized from a central axis.

Exposed laterite walls. Clay tile roof. 35% of the wood and roof tiles salvaged from the old house that stood on the same site. Solar panels. Rainwater harvesting feeding the lily pond.

Nothing imported that didn’t need to be. Nothing wasted that could be reused.

Architects: TWO i Architects, Kannur, Kerala. Completed 2022.

The house your community has always built was never the problem. It was the decision to stop refining it.

More images in the comments 🧵

[Akash @heyakash_ai]

JOB INTERVIEW:
"What are your salary expectations?"

Most candidates say:
"Well, I am currently making $90k, so I am hoping to get around $105k to make the move worth it." (anchoring to the past)

THE WINNING ANSWER: