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Monthly recap -- July 2023
Major update(s) Trip to Banff National Park in Canada * Stayed in a cabin without internet * Amazing landscapes (see pic above) * Did some strenuous family hikes! (Consolation Lake, Agnes Lake)…
Uber-Rationalism
Bruno Maçães talks about a recent convergence of ideologies ... Here some serious pathologies quickly coalesce. First, many of these people only recently developed a taste for politics and political…
On Work
I sometimes say "I want to work till I die", and people take it to mean that I want to "hustle forever" or "be a wage slave forever" etc. This is, of course, not what I…
Precarious times
An excerpt from Peter Turchin's new book, "End Times"…
A Russian mosaic
An uncharacteristically brilliant article from the New York Times, and very ... evenly-balanced one today https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/world/europe/putins-forever-war.html Here are some quote…
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Just do it
(Old draft) I remember coming across Allegro as a graphics library for games (10? 15?) years ago. My impression at the time was that it was too simple, and “real games” would require more sophistica…
Read-Aloud
Have a good pipeline of night-time reading lined up:…