Neville is Never Normal

Make stuff on the internet and explore the 🌏. Win and help win. Currently based in 🇪🇸. Building global health insurance for nomads:

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

Why Never Normal? What's wrong with the default path?

There's a massive lie 👖🔥 hidden in plain sight at the heart of our education and employment systems.

Here's a 30 second explanation:

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@MaxUnfried Max Undied

[zayden @pemilo123]

The ADHD urge to be excellent at solving other people's highly complex
problems whileletting my
car registration expire for 8 months while actively thinking about it every single day

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@levelsio Are these numbers correct though? Assuming 100 people died, then your odds imply there are 30,000,000 Spanish rail passengers per year.

That seems really low to me, given the population and how much trains are used here.

@grok what's the correct denominator to use?

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@NeelBParekh Tokyo and Bangkok!

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

Is there a name for this phenomenon?

once a field gets sufficiently good at making things that are objectively great, then they just start making ugly stuff (I guess because it’s not creative otherwise)?

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

I visited Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley today. It was designed by, and currently houses, the architecture faculty.

The UC Berkeley website notes that "Wurster is often voted Berkeley's ugliest building."

I visited because I was curious about whether it would in person seem as unattractive as it does in photos. And, in short: it does. It's gaunt, austere, and filmed in grime. On an elysian campus, it stands out for its bleak hostility. It reminds me of the German submarine base in Bordeaux.

The UC Berkeley page agrees that it was never designed to be attractive, quoting the curator of their design archives: “Wurster and his handpicked architects didn’t want anything romantic, or sentimental — they hated the idea of ‘making pretty buildings. They wanted a serious building.”

I guess we have to concede success relative to their stated goals, but it does make one wonder what it all says about architecture as a discipline.

[El Diaz @SoyDaniloDiaz]

Mi sueño es que WhatsApp incluya la opción de desactivar los mensajes de audio. La persona lo enviará y aparecerá un mensaje que dice "del usuario no acepta mensajes de audio, escribe".

[Jason Shuman @JasonrShuman]

Coming to a city near you

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@cactus2jack2 @WarMonitor3 exactly what I thought

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@chrisman Never seen this kind of kid-on-adult bike setup before. Looks interesting

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@MaxUnfried https://t.co/SBbVtt5lkG

[The Adam Carolla Show @AdamCarollaShow]

.@JerrySeinfeld explains why @adamcarolla's "Rich Man, Poor Man" is one of the greatest comedy bits of all time 👇

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@brennandunn The first time I went to a mall in Eastern Europe and there was a giant grocery store on the basement floor of the mall I was very confused

[Robert Leshner @rleshner]

My kids now have to solve age appropriate math problems before each episode of Bluey, thanks to the miracle of AI reverse engineering and upgrading my TV 🔥🔥🔥

[gabriel @gabriel1]

how is every school lesson not a opus 5.5 "bottoms up explainer video" i'd literally learn

i can literally learn anything in 20x faster by telling opus "explain this hyper intuitively bottoms up with the most simple step by step animations so i really understand concretely"

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@lukeburgis So true!

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@AntoineBlanco99 What don’t you like about April?

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

@levelsio I say oppposite. Krakow is cute for tourism. Warsaw is a super under rated, exciting city for living

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

Thesis: In the age of AI, your data is your moat. Protect it from being scraped by bots.

Antithesis: In the age of AI, agents are your users. Make sure your site is accessible to them.

Synthesis: Make your interface easy for agents to use, and your data hard for bots to grok.

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

The cyberpunk future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed. Also, I think that’s a remote operator in the Philippines if I had to guess

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Absolutely WILD footage has emerged from Atlanta where an apartment complex now uses "robot security dogs" to patrol the area at night.

The robot dogs also seem to speak in Indian accents to the residents.

I've never seen anything like this before... insane!!!

[Neville is Never Normal @namehra]

Turns out, past performance *is* a predictor of future results

[GURGAVIN @gurgavin]

1/ I WONDERED WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU JUST BUY THE BEST PERFORMING STOCK FROM THE YEAR BEFORE AND DO IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR

SO I BACKTESTED IT GOING BACK 15 YEARS

STARTING WITH $100 IN 2012:

END RESULTS

S&P 500 → $800

LAST YEAR'S WINNER → $176,114