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just here listening to luk thung

might have discovered a ride hailing hack for bkk

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where is the flood of guangzhou tipzzzz channeling /guangzhou in case that helps

just made a mug of an earnestly and responsibly grown and processed coffee that is so overroasted it is hard to finish drinking. 😑

Guangzhou for a few days from tomorrow — would love any tips (esp food). mandarin speaker, so locals-only stuff much appreciated. excited for noodles of all sorts

Machine prose looks finished → brain shifts from "is this my argument?" to "break this sentence?" Struggling with incomplete thoughts is where thinking happens. New newsletter on writing with LLMs. https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/gbw32026

king city pinks cooked with carrot, garlic, and celery; recooked with sweet potato leaves cooked with pounded chilies and garlic.

Innovation requires uncomfortable work. People resist discomfort viscerally and instinctively. Solution: commit to calibrated projects that exceed current capabilities and trigger some productive desperation to force the learning and experimentation that incentives can't. https://vaughntan.org/desperationdesign

roni horn, water double v3 2 solid cast glass cylinders, black and clear, each approx 1.3m tall and 1.3m dia how long did they have to anneal this enormous solid piece of glass 🤯

The most important knowledge in any organisation can't be written down. It's tacit knowledge that must be learned through direct experience. Three mechanisms that actually work for creating orgs that can transmit tacit knowledge well: https://vaughntan.org/learnwhatmatters

1999 vieux telegraphe and 2018 koehler ruprecht kallstadter saumagen auslese trocken

Businesses need cheap small-scale automation ... which is already feasible to build. But corporate mindsets and procurement systems built around big, expensive-to-build software can't figure out how to buy these Boring Tiny Tools. Imagination failure, not technical barrier. https://vaughntan.org/bttparadigm

just off a long call with an editor at a press. among many things, we talked about how publishing gravitates toward high-certainty book projects and projects which are illusory in their high certainty of success. (the large investment of time required for publishing is what makes publishers grasp for certainty that the investment is worth it) i wrote prev about the issues of publishing that seeks only sure-wins: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/43-a-new-market-of-ideas and heard about a book on the sociology of producing a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691191874/under-the-cover and a famous author's challenges in publishing a book unlike the books that got her famous: https://substack.com/home/post/p-183345681 which reminded me of howie becker on ecosystems of art production: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/art-worlds-25th-anniversary-edition/paper and craig mod on creating his own production ecosystem: https://craigmod.com/essays/successful_memberships/

ultra hd food promotional displays are mildly disturbing idk why