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It's too bad that almonds use so much water, because they suck.

Scam? How to know if this position on Merkl (never used it; showed up in my @rainbow wallet) is going to drain me?

I still love (and often think about) this document navigation paradigm from Paper. It's an excellent example of productizing byproducts. Not only is it automatic based on my markdown activity on the page, it *extends the functionality of work I've already done*. When I apply hierarchy to the document, Paper makes that hierarchy navigable elsewhere. "But no one asked for that! What if someone doesn't want that 'clutter' in their view?" Great question. It's just visible enough to know it's there and readily available with a hover interaction, but it's not so obvious that it's distracting or diruptive.

Like papi, I've had minor frustrations with small aspects of what I need to do lately. Incidentally, in this same window, each of my kids have had to work through something similar. My frequent comment to them is along the lines of, "sometimes you've got to do the things you don't want to do in order to do more of the things you want to do." Then this Cam Ward clip hit my feed today and hit me in the gut. A friend told me years ago that "purpose at work is something you build, not something you find." I have a great job working on great projects with great people (in somewhat normal hours). This work allows me to do more of what I want to do. My house is healthy. Perspective. https://x.com/BleacherReport/status/1950926704572072027

Pretty wild that the Epstein files were released at the same time that Clawdbot scaled slop & fakes

It’s a fuubutsushi kind of commute this morning.

Every time we come home from my daughter’s gymnastics class, we take the long way and roll down the windows. She gets such joy out of that. (Which means I get joy out of it.)

Some good finds in there

I just minted my Moltling by @mfbevan.eth Mint yours and join the lobster revolution 🦞🦞🦞

Rewatched Good Will Hunting for the first time in many years, this time with the two older boys. Wow, that holds up.

Getting in one last sesh before the week warms up

Remembering that LLMs & agents are probablistic and trained on human-generated materials, we can see moltbook as a sharpening mirror, a distillation — and a projection? — of who we are (or pretend to be online).

I'm going to have to not sleep this weekend so I can watch Djokovic, aren't I?

TIL “Cesare Marchetti observed that Greek villages and ancient walking cities, as marked by ancient city walls, tend to share a radius of about 2.5km. Walking at a typical 5km/hr makes a one-hour round-trip journey. He also pointed out that: “Even people in prison for a life sentence, having nothing to do and nowhere to go, walk around for one hour a day, in the open.”” Marchetti's constant is the idea that people throughout history have budgeted, on average, about an hour a day for travelling. https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/d9cae19f-2377-422c-be8e-4a580789bb04_180474637321.jpg https://sketchplanations.com/marchettis-constant

(lowercase) has had me chuckling all morning

Sponsorship opportunity of a lifetime https://x.com/neesh774/status/2016251738790007295

A couple months ago I had some olive oil & black pepper ice cream, so I guess you could say it’s an interest.

Karl Bushby has been in the process of winning a bet for 27 years. Most stubborn dude ever? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y2xxzjn2xo.amp