A selection of my security pattern collection featured in this article by @szmagazin (German only) https://t.co/nIbOKAZl1M https://t.co/AZJEMMVkSP The collection is approaching 500, and I'm still looking for more. DM if you have any!
I can't believe we're still having this conversation. You can't learn or earn taste. In fact, doing something because you think it will help you become tasteful inherently nullifies its ability to develop taste. Literally just do, read, look at the things you like. That is taste!
Depends on the rate.
Saving $47k interest sounds cool, but a 3% mortgage is very different than 7%. Many families feel real-world inflation closer to 4–6%. A fixed low-rate mortgage gets cheaper every year in purchasing-power terms.
The interest savings are guaranteed, but the opportunity cost may be larger.
Thinking about "creative time density": how many person-hours/years went into this specific artifact/place/experience?
It's a reliable awe trigger for me. Performers spending hundreds of hours preparing a few minutes of material for a big show, a scholar spending a decade on a book, a Ghibli film, cathedrals.
Not fully reliable ofc—doesn't capture the awe in jazz, plein-air painting, etc. But I think the absence of creative time density says something about what's missing in slop. At least in improv arts there's expertise density, which is a different kind of time density.
Fun related concept is "auteurial time density"—how many hours/years of *one person's* idiosyncratic creative perspective is represented here? Gaudi, Welles, Klint, Caro, etc
No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
@jdreeves this. my wife's been quietly shaping my work for 15 years, and i deeply trust her aesthetic intuition. she has a degree in architecture, and consulted with many of our clients in architecture, interiors, and hospitality. she's now a part-time studio director at Shore.
Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.