I’ve wanted to build a bike from the frame up for over a decade.
Last night I finally finished the build in my garage and rode it for the first time this morning.
Build was Type 2 fun, but now I can be my own bike mechanic.
walking the streets of berlin with my wife
we hear live music. melancholy and sweet.
scores of families eat döners in the grey air. children chasing balloons on the sidewalks. sticky sweet treats drizzled over tiny fingers. aunties huddled around a table preparing lahmacun. young men dapping up the homies. grandfathers sipping tea silently. mothers holding their babies.
we are more similar than we are different
A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai earns ₹250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework.
She wears a phone on her head and records herself making coffee, cutting fruit, folding laundry.
These first-person videos get sent to AI companies training humanoid robots to handle real-world tasks. She shoots 90+ clips a day.
Her quote: "Who else will pay you ₹250/hour ($3) an hour just for doing housework?"
She's part of a growing gig economy in India where thousands are doing the same thing, filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.
You crash on a strange island in your space pod.
You’re alone.
The only thing that came with you is EVA, a fragment of the Mother AI that raised you for 14 years back on the ship.