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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.

How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.

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.

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.

I built a custom energy dashboard for my house using this beautiful, 2-bit colour, e-paper display. Hardware, software, data and design.

Merlin Mann attempts to capture the best advice he's heard and learned from. - merlinmann/wisdom

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

A guide to basic digital hygiene.

Lessons learned from stress testing dozens of seed phrase backup devices.

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

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.

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…

This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. ![A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THEREFORE A …

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 →

Why people with Aura get ahead

1. “Optionality is the property of asymmetric upside (preferably unlimited) with correspondingly limited downside (preferably tiny).”  Venture capital, when practiced properly by a top …

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 […]

What, are you still unsuccessful? Still getting by despite the avalanche of advice circling in the online realm? Read this...

I wanted to make art

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 […]

A few nights ago a friend and I were talking about the moment when someone shows you their texts with their crush and asks you to analyze it with them, i.e.

When I was in the eleventh grade, I went on a field trip to the University of Miami to hear a very aged Robert Frost read his poetry. After listening to his melodic recitation, I went up to meet hi…