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This newsletter was started ~2 yrs ago for trying out Substack and practicing my vim skill. Now that I’ve become familiar with both it’s time to save myself from the daily errand. Sharing of excerpts and links from now on could be found on my Readwise broadcast…
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A Short History of My Last Six Years On the afternoon of June 18, 2016, I was sitting on the couch engaging in a familiar ritual: looking through my…
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Writing Essays With AI: A Guide If you read histories of typewriters, you’ll find that each one of these concerns— too impersonal, not private, too much…
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The SEC Comes for Crypto Custody Roughly speaking the way the US stock market works is that all of the stocks are in one place. The place is called DTC…
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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT— and then to explore why it…
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A 600-Mile Quest to Savor the Fading Beauty of Japan’s Traditional Cafes The pizza toast was like liturgy, like an old friend comforting me as I wept…
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Netflix’s New Chapter COVID screwed up the timing: everyone being stuck at home re-ignited Netflix subscriber growth, but the underlying challenges…
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Why I Hunt for Sidewalk Fossils A paleontologist once told me that city sidewalks hold snapshots. These marks are too recent to pass muster with…
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