Wesley Yang's story
(clearing out old posts, this one is from three years ago ...) I'm enjoying Wesley Yang's Substack these days -- it's well-written, comprehensive, and inspiring. How did this come about?…
Substack
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Past and Future, interrupted
From this Substack post In Margaret Mead’s understanding of cultural transmission between generations, it appears that we may also be living in a pre-figurative culture, where the past is not the gui…
Random extract #032590
From this Substack post Was this an attempted coup? No one beside Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Alexander Lukashenko, and maybe CIA director William J. Burns or director of national intelligenc…
Monthly Curations: November 2019
* Applying the lessons of the Golang scheduler to the Tokio scheduler in Rust * Speeding up Nixpkgs by avoiding subshells * Pessimism about engineering software * The Racket programming language i…
Substack
(or, "Dispatches from ebbs and flows in a mind-web") I’ve been toying with the idea of an email subscription option, with no success: * I considered TinyLetter earlier on but never got ro…