Devon Carew

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

The masculine urge to learn the Greek and Latin dialects relevant to 79AD Herculaneum so we can read the forthcoming scroll texts despite knowing zero Latin or Greek at the moment

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Herculaneum fused scroll read in full.
https://t.co/y8RV6tDzvg

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@TheStalwart @yashalevine “The point of writing is to track the barley purchases of the local brewery”

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@DanDavisWrites Me too. My brother-in-law thinks I’m crazy because they didn’t even have roads. That’s the point bro. That’s the point

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@QuetzalPhoenix Rooting his personal reinvention in a murder-suicide is way more interesting than him just hiding his past or making up a completely fake identity

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@BrianAcity Ruskin too. I don’t find it surprising because the postivist view they are competing agaisnt has an embarrassingly thin conception of humanity. How could they describe how technology affects humans when they can’t understand humans beyond the fitness tracker and credit score?

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@robkhenderson Reminds me of an old episode of EconTalk with @EconTalker and Jesse Ausubel

https://t.co/w3FFSMUsOJ

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@micsolana @conor64 He’s literally calling for a Rick Caruso. Look how that turned out

https://t.co/G52mT2wAQc

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

@Anonydu Run explicitly anti-Trump moderates.

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@JohnHCochrane @Vince_R_Jansen Is the idea that inflation affects the numerator and denominator of P/E equally?

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

The quality of recent serious nonfiction published has gone down a lot too. Many reasons for this

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years

“The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint.

“When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.

[Goodfire @GoodfireAI]

Neural networks might speak English, but they think in shapes.

Understanding their rich *neural geometry* is key to understanding how they work – and to debugging and controlling them with precision.

Starting today, we’re releasing a series of posts on this research agenda. 🧵

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@SecretCFO How do your choice of business model, operating structure, and strategy influence your working capital needs?

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

It’s true. Have been reading his book Out of Control (published 1994) and it is insane how far ahead he was

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly is neck and neck with Ray Kurzweil for the best technology forecaster of the last 40 years.

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@horwitzben @iamjasonlevin would like this

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@TheStalwart It’s grammatically ok but some semantics are off. Calling a confession contained in a letter “the very document” is not right. The letter is the document not the confession inside.

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

Great piece. I generally agree with your assessment of constructivism. Those who deny it outright are obviously wrong. But I think your criticism of its worst usage only captures one failure mode. Yes its worst adherents try to apply it to things that are not constructed. Many also assume that because something is constructed all of its building materials are removable like a façade rather than structural like a foundation. They act as if it was made completely arbitrarily and it can be redesigned by "experts" with no real downsides.

Using masculinity as an example: while some aspects of it may be aesthetic and interchangeable, it was made with male biology in mind (even if not consciously at first). This basis cannot be exchanged for another biological foundation without fundamentally changing (or destroying) the construct. Furthermore the cultural layer shapes male biology. They coevolve.

Lastly, the perception that things like masculinity are merely constructed ignores the fact that they have been under centuries or millennia of selection pressure. They were not cooked up in a sociology lab and imposed by mandate. They evolved. The word construction implies far more design than is warranted. These things evolved too. Radically altering them without acknowledging that is hubris.

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@charliewrich

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

We are his Angels. He is our Adam

[jinofcoolnes @Rahmeljackson]

imagine you're in the world suffering by yourself, but actually millions of super intelligent beings are watching you from afar rooting for your success

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

Here is a list of Don’s books for those wondering:

1. Portnoy’s Complaint - Phillip Roth
2. Divine Comedy: Inferno - Dante
3. Fixer - Bernard Malamud
5. Mediations in an Emergency - Frank O’Hara
6. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
7. The Best of Everything - Rona Jaffe
8. Odds Against - Dick Francis
9. Exodus - Leon Uris
10. Berlitz Self Teacher: French
11. Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carré

Bonus (not pictured):
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword - Ruth Benedict

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@lhamtil

[Devon Carew @devoncarew]

@TheStalwart Accidently read this as upstream grifting. Still feels right