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[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.

The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessities to sports, historical curiosities, and hobbies. It was interesting to hear how in the post-WW2 occupation when martial arts were banned, Judo was represented as equivalent to western wrestling, and Kendo later to western fencing.

The poignant undercurrent for me is that I can see many programming skills following that path.

There are probably dozens of people reading this that remember hand assembling opcodes to hex and still have some magic numbers burned into their memory, but even the small group of people still programming in assembly today (hey, @FFmpeg !) don’t work at that primitive level now.

AI is making many other programming skills much less critical. We aren’t there yet, but carefully writing code completely by hand is moving from a -jitsu to a -do. Code-do? Codo?

That’s ok! The retro computing scene is delightful, full of people building and exercising old skills for the love of it.

But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter.

Musashi would probably have been pretty enthusiastic about assault rifles.

[Dhairya Karekar @dkare1009]

She literally explained How to trigger dopamine in conversation and master small talk:

[The Vital Path @PathOfVitality]

A job is stressful. So is having no job.
Being single is stressful. So is being in a relationship.
Working in an office is stressful. So is working with your hands.
Having too many clients is stressful. So is having none.

Life is full of trade-offs
Stop romanticizing lives you haven’t lived.

[R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore]

Pretty much go to bed and wake up thinking about this clip

Lives in my head

[hinata @HinataMotivates]

Why strategy will always be more important than hard work.

[𖣂Prince𖣂 @OS3992]

If you want to succeed, you have to be willing to take the hard path

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

did you remember to practice today?

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Steven Pinker: "Of the seventy million people who died in major 20th-century famines, 80 percent were victims of Communist regimes’ forced collectivization, punitive confiscation, and totalitarian central planning."

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

Jensen Huang built a $4 trillion company and it wasn't luck.

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

Richard Feynman on studying and talent.

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2025 is 60% complete.

[Colossus @colossusmag]

“What’s the kindest thing anyone’s ever done for you?”

It’s always @patrick_oshag’s final question.

Here are 4 of the most powerful answers we've heard.

From strangers who intervened at life-or-death moments to simple acts that changed someone's course.

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2025 is 58% complete.

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2025 is 50% complete.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The transformative power of love

[Years Progress @YearsProgress]

2025 is 32% complete.

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

"Make children. They will be your joy and your consolation in the future.”

During his last trip as pope, Pope Francis delivered a very direct message to Europeans while in Corsica

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Peter Thiel, debating Google CEO,
2012:

“Google has $50B, doesn't innovate”

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

I could listen to @ProfBrianCox all day.