Futurology
Tab Tab Tab - by Nikunj Kothari - Balancing Act
Curiosity can’t be tabbed through. Taste can’t be validated into existence. Problems that don’t exist yet aren’t in any training set.
Focus on finding your humanity, what makes you human. Many, many things humans did to keep themselves busy will just go away. Will this disrupt so called “knowledge-work”? Most definitely. Knowledge workers will have a lot of free time. Instead of despairing, they should turn the corner on making things with the atoms. The bottleneck is no longer with the bits, it will continue to accelarate.
Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury - by Alex Danco; a good followup to read after the previous post, to understand what is setting the economic stage for things to come.
where Baumol’s will finally run out of steam - because at some point, these “last 1% employable skills” no longer become substitutable for one another. They’ll become strange vestigial limbs of career paths; in a sense. We have a ways to go until we get there, but we can anticipate some very strange economic & political alliances that could get formed in such a world.
Programming
Started to use Unpoly on a project. I decided to use it because I find it much easier to reason about than going whole hog with javascript/typescript server side programming. Unsurprisingly cursor was able to bootstrap the project I am developing using Django, and unpoly, and tailwind.
Discovered Zensical, which is a successor to mkdocs. Read the announcement — Zensical - A modern static site generator - Material for MkDocs. Competition to this is astrojs’s Starlight.