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Rick Rubin | The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding
Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.
AI
Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.
Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.
The Agentic Web and Original Sin
Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.
Octopus, solar & e-paper energy dashboards
I built a custom energy dashboard for my house using this beautiful, 2-bit colour, e-paper display. Hardware, software, data and design.
creativewisdom/wisdom.md at master · merlinmann/wisdom
Merlin Mann attempts to capture the best advice he's heard and learned from. - merlinmann/wisdom
mindsets
A Treatise on Bitcoin Seed Backup Device Design
Lessons learned from stress testing dozens of seed phrase backup devices.
bitcoin
Eliud Kipchoge: Inside the camp, and the mind, of the greatest marathon runner of all time
He’s the greatest marathoner in history, a national hero in Kenya, and an icon for runners around the world. But despite his fame and wealth, Eliud Kipchoge chooses to live the most basic lifestyle. Cathal Dennehy travels to the highlands of Kenya for an inside look at his training camp and to meet a champion with a quiet, complex personality
health
Nobody Cares | Andreessen Horowitz
All the mental energy you waste complaining would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
Taking Children Seriously
Featured today on takingchildrenseriously.com: Coercion has unpredictable unintended consequences 👶🏻 Does leaving your baby to ‘cry it out’ teach self-soothing—or learnt helplessness? 🧠 The unintended consequences of objectifying a child’s education ⚛️ Mainstream management of pre-verbal children can have unfortunate unintended consequences 🧬 Potential unintended consequences of using coercion as a ‘solution’ to behavioural problems 🥶 Limiting your children’s scr…
parenting
A computer can never be held accountable
This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. 
50 Years of Travel Tips
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →
Sketchplanations - Simplifying complex ideas in sketches
什么是“单臀演奏”？
无论是作为演奏者还是听众，我们都曾体验过音乐打动人心的力量。
本杰明·赞德在其关于古典音乐变革力量的TED演讲中，以模仿孩童学琴的生动场景开篇，引人入胜。随着每年练习的积累，孩子的演奏愈发柔和、技艺日臻完善，情感表达也愈加丰富。
当模仿一位11岁孩子演奏时，身体倾向音乐，仅一侧臀部接触琴凳，本·赞德解释道：
“我也不知怎的就摆出了这个姿势。
我并未刻意指挥自己‘肩膀要移过去，身体要动起来’。不，是音乐推动我如此，这就是我称之为‘单臀演奏’的原因。”
他继续讲述道：
“有一次，我在指导一位年轻钢琴家时，一位先生在一旁观看。他是俄亥俄州一家公司的总裁。我对那位钢琴家说，‘你的问题在于你是双臀演奏者，应该成为单臀演奏者。’在他演奏时，我调整了他的身体姿态。突然间，音乐仿佛插上了翅膀，腾空而起。听众听到变化后，无不惊叹。后来，我收到了那位先生的来信，他说，‘我深受触动，回去后便将整个公司转型为‘单臀’公司。’”
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Nassim Taleb about Optionality/Investing
1. “Optionality is the property of asymmetric upside (preferably unlimited) with correspondingly limited downside (preferably tiny).” Venture capital, when practiced properly by a top …
SIX at 6: Mundane Excellence, Comfortable Torture, A Dividing Line, The Reality of Creativity, Peanuts, and Paul Graham - Billy Oppenheimer
The Mundanity of Excellence In the early 1980’s, the sociologist Daniel Chambliss spent five years studying swimmers at every level of ability. He visited learn-to-swim programs, coached a regional swim team, and traveled with the U.S. Olympic Team. Then in 1989, he published his research in a paper titled, “The Mundanity of Excellence.” Essentially, Chambliss […]
7 Reasons Why You're Still Unsuccessful
What, are you still unsuccessful? Still getting by despite the avalanche of advice circling in the online realm? Read this...
entrepreneurship
Here's a framework for letting it go (whatever “it” is) - SoCurious
1. Feel it fully. Name the emotion: “I am feeling ____.” Let it rise and intensify—don’t try to tame it. But be careful not to project it onto someone else. 2. Rest. Give yourself space to pause. 3. Process the emotion. Write, cry, talk it out, move, listen to music that resonates. Clean your space, nourish your body—anything […]