Em Suru

nothing needs to happen right now

(mantra by @lingxlim)

[Cristina Cordova @cjc]

Ranking engineers by token spend is like me ranking my marketing team by who spent the most money.

We may not have hit our KPIs, but Joe spent $200k on a branded blimp that only flies over his own house, so he’s getting promoted to VP!

Don't mistake a high burn rate for a high success rate.

[anushka @anushcache]

you can tell how much internal shame someone has by how judgemental they are

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

@TylerAlterman people forget but there are a couple of these even before puberty, which is another

[James Vincent @jjvincent]

language is the strangest thing that happened to humans so I’m not surprised it’s the strangest thing that’s happened to computers too

[mostly_rts🕯 @mostly_rts]

what's wrong with the world starts in the mirror

[samim @samim]

Modern technology - with its insatiable hunger for energy and destruction of habitats - is crude compared to nature’s hyper-efficient, ever-evolving, self-replicating, beautiful creations.

[samim @samim]

Perspective

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Making slides manually feels especially painful now that you know Cursor for slides should exist but doesn’t.

[DTheLetterD @DtheletterD]

GM

What a mess where in

At least it’s Friday

ENTR0PIE
@YUDHO_XYZ

[jack @jackbutcher]

take the label seriously to survive

because markets need categories
audiences need shortcuts

you’ll be compressed
named
positioned

and if you resist too early
you vanish

so play along
long enough to be seen

the label is camouflage
not identity

wear it to enter
not to stay

[François Chollet @fchollet]

As a parent, you end up watching a fair amount of cartoons, and I've found that old-school, hand-drawn animation has soul, while CG animation, no matter how pretty, doesn't.

I think this has to do with the fact that hand-drawn frames directly convey an accumulation of human-made choices. Each choice, from the initial design to the final brushstrokes, leaves an imprint, a trace of the taste and thought process of the people who brought it into being.

With CG, the human-made choices are both fewer (which is evident in the fact that CG is much less labor-intensive to create) and less direct, more mediated. Hence the lack of soul -- you are no longer in the close presence of the creators' minds.

[Em Suru @em_suru]

"So kill him, but don't be angry"

[Anna Gát 🧭 @TheAnnaGat]

🥰

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

This is a great question, and one of the answers is a great secret that explains a huge amount of how the world works.

First: We have been cooking food for a long time to free up calories that would otherwise be unavailable. We’ve been doing this long enough that it as affected our physiology.

But the second answer is the big one: Humans are able to behave as if our lives are extremely valuable. Deer and coyotes and pigeons and hawks and bears drop like flies. They die constantly. Humans have the ability to not accept this and so we do all kinds of crazy things to prevent ourselves from puking or shitting our brains out or dying.

We’re perfectly capable of eating and digesting raw meat, but we do not do it because we have the ability to make a different decision that decreases the amount of time we spend suffering.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

The mind of a true scientist or philosopher is born when a child despairs deeply enough to trust their ideas more than their feelings. This decision is often final. In a sane mind, this decision is always temporary and conditional: the purpose of thinking is to repair perception.

[Mikael Brockman @meekaale]

@the_wilderless Don't forget to just sit around and be a little stupid

[Marie @mesolude]

I'd like to get better at supporting people without validating and buying into their reality. Any tips?

[v @iavins]

Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite. Let's go!

SQLite is the most deployed and most used database. There are over one trillion (1000000000000 or a million million) SQLite databases in active use.

It is maintained by three people. They don't allow outside contributions.

[Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean]

@visakanv I've been seriously thinking that we should meme into existence a name for our kids' generation before they get stuck with "betas"

[David R. MacIver @DRMacIver]

A lot of visible problems that you can't seem to solve are secretly solutions you don't want to admit to adopting to problems you don't want to admit to having.

[ཐི♡ཋྀ @gobIinarchive]

Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen showing off her ‘Tear Gun’ that collects and freezes actual tears to shoot them back at the person who made her cry