X/twitter is becoming progressive less appealing to spend time on. I am trying to add more friction to using it by:
- use the Brick app on my phone to disable both the app as well as the website.
- On the laptop, I logout as soon as I feel bored, or I need to be off it. This introduces more friction to just opening a new tab and typing x.com.
I want to get more aggressive in “not interested in this” to clean up my feed.
I logged on to bluesky to see if I get a better signal to noise ratio on tech, because one of the main reasons I maintain a bluesky account is to follow many tech accounts that stopped using X in favour of bluesky. However, that site also attracts extremely opinionated anti-AI people which is also a turn off. I unfollowed more people today on bluesky than I followed.
Mathematics
We’ve been wrong about math for 2300 years
Along the way, we also failed to articulate the most compelling value proposition of mathematics: math is an imagination technique that makes you smarter.
Kill Math by Bet Victor via
Programming
🔥 Introduction - Mojo 🔥 GPU Puzzles a hands-on guide to GPU programming using mojo.
Learnt about Pixi package-management tool used for some of the puzzles above. Seems to be aimed at python users but for all major OSes.
In order to run the puzzles, i had to install the Metal Framework: xcodebuild -downloadComponent MetalToolchain
Economics
How to actually feed America - by Caroline Sutton from Slow Boring newsletter
From around the web
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago — The New Atlantis by Charles C. Mann
The Untold Story of Charlie Munger’s Final Years from WSJ.
Rather than a quiet life by the sea, Munger spent his final years chasing gutsy investments, forging unlikely friendships and facing new challenges.
Learnt a new way to say “bullshit” — “Horse Feathers”.
Fun
Getting this t-shirt made via CustomInk. Insipred by this Youtube Short.
