What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Interesting Links Citi Bike Boys Math/Stat Travel Other You will make a change when the pain of your circumstances exceeds the fear of doing something different.

What I learned this week Software Suica Cards Business/Finance American AIrlines regional carriers Interesting Links Recycling Its funny how its easy to message “this is good” and “this is bad” yet invariably things aren’t “100% good” or “100% bad” and depends on use/circumstance Electric plane Math/Stat Travel Other Recipe for a good burger: Trader Joe’s Masala burger patty Green chutney Sechuan sauce

What I learned this week Software LG sucks Cool way to use duckdb + obsidian amazing article on compression and LLMs Business/Finance U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at Year-End 2023 Interesting Links Some good honey Math/Stat Travel Other Knowing what you want is the competitive advantage Cooking analogy: Two people can make same “dish” but one is way better Watching someone make bread vs doing it Won’t even know the questions to ask until you do it

What I learned this week Software LLMs are the commodity, not people Good video on the GIL Business/Finance Gotta love parm Interesting Links Food recommended to me by an uber driver in DC More food recommended to me by an uber driver in DC Math/Stat Travel Other Random thoughts I had about comparison. How to weigh yourself without a scale. Without a scale or any thing you know the dimensions/volume of… this becomes impossible to do in standard units We constantly create tools to measure ourselves We build these tools with standard units so that we can compare ourselves Things like weight, speed, etc… Even age is just something we’ve codified despite being just how long it takes for our spinning ball to go around a much hotter spinning ball and how fast our spinning ball spins We constantly create these paradigms because they are useful/convenient but they also can become our own enemy Social media creates a level playing field to constantly see what others are doing When we take away these measurements do people become happier?

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Interesting Links What “their ilk” means Heat Training Math/Stat Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Elevators Business/Finance Interesting Links Bacteria are cool Math/Stat Travel Other challah Hayden Flour Mill & Silos

What I learned this week Software Scaling pg listen/notify Perceptual hashing Business/Finance One man bike shorts company Red White Interesting Links Types of flour Math/Stat Travel Other

What I learned this week Software Business/Finance Camel Racing brought to you by Pogba Interesting Links Insane Music video Kalshi infecting the news Don’t Take the Black Pill Math/Stat Travel Flaming Gorge · Flaming Gorge, Utah looks nice Fish Lake - Utah also looks nice Other Did You Know TLDs Can Be Websites?

What I learned this week Software Fun games site Business/Finance ALL SEASON SPORTS ETF… sports betting bet its an etf this time Fraud…. Fraud everywhere Interesting Links Australian inflation Dolphins smoking pufferfish Math/Stat Travel Cool train trip Lifetime united airlines pass Other Coconut for bbq

What I learned this week Software Classic DBA mosh an alt to ssh Business/Finance David_Ogilvy Interesting Links Screwworm Math/Stat Switchback experiments Switchback experiments solve the problem of network effects rendering traditional A/B tests impractical by switching between test and control treatments based on time, rather than randomly splitting the population. Travel Other Spent the long weekend up in Greer with my parents, Aunt, and Ally. I’m just reminded of how great it feels to spend time with loved ones outside of the traditional day-to-day hustle and bustle.