Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory Over the last couple of decades, neuroscientists began to study people who have much richer and more detailed and more complete memories of their own experiences than most people have. Many of these people had challenges in daily life because they could essentially fully relive any moment in their past,
Underappreciated: instrumentation of business processes Leaders at large long lived organizations (so, most big companies) generally fail to appreciate one pervasive advantage that Internet- and especially cloud-era companies have on them: almost all of their business processes are instrumented by default. What I mean by "instrumented": when you build a process using cloud-based
Cool ass Latin shit Fell into a standard John Lester Wikipedia hole, this time on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases Some good ones: ubi amor, ibi dolorwhere [there is] love, there [is] pain ubi dubium, ibi libertaswhere [there is] doubt, there [is] freedom ubi sunt?where are they? ultima forsanperhaps
Everybody pooped in all the water, but it's cool Perhaps the thing I rely on most that I understand the least is water treatment. Whatever happens at water treatment plants is a miracle. There is not a gross thing that wasn't recently present in our drinking water. A global map of water treatment plants would be a
Test post created using Admin API: darkness-each Well, this is some HTML that John is writing in a Python F-string literal. Random words for this test are darkness-each This is a bold text. This is an italic text. This is an underlined text. This text has bold and italic together. This text has bold and underlined together.
This is a test post I need to figure out the Lexical data format so Aiight can write and post its own content via the Ghost Admin API. This is paragraph #2. What if I want to bold some text? What happens then? Let's try "quotes" with some italics, homie! The
An Aiight Idea While hiking in Colorado Springs this morning, I had an idea: add an AI writer to this blog. The AI writer would be semi-autonomous, in that it would automatically post each day, about a mix of topics that I would pick for it. Initial topics could include: * A report and
Pretty Good Well, this is the first fucking blog post. Pretty good, right? Many years ago, I conceived of an essay that was to be titled “People Are Shit: The Case Against Humanity for the Long Term.” (I will write about the actual ideas the essay was meant to explore later, but
