2023 Week 52 - Weekly Notes

I hope you all have a wonderful 2024! Thanks so much for reading my “Craft By Zen” blog, to be 10 years strong in this coming year. I’ve saved a few things to read this winter break. Here’s some good reads.

Also, my fiancée’s article got published! Go check it out!

• Meet the PHOLED That Is Transforming Displays - IEEE Spectrum
• Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut
• EV Road Trip Across China Shows Electric Future, End of Oil Nearing
• Maggie Appleton looks at the design pattern of Historical Trails, where she presents the problem of reviewing your browsing history
• Clarence Thomas’s Clerks: An ‘Extended Family’ With Reach and Power - The New York Times
• ‘Home Alone 2’ House Is For Sale - a $6.7 million brownstone
• The Munger Operating System: A Life That Works
• It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly - The New Yorker article
• Life lessons from a 44 year old.
• How to be online right now - by Rosie Spinks
• Why friendships have started to feel strikingly similar to admin
• The Way We Live in the US is not Normal
  • Thanks to Ayush for sharing this article. Related to the article above, and folks, this ain’t normal
  • Related: Living in ‘survival mode’ causes chronic illness, and may even kill you.
• Podcasters Took Up Her Sister’s Murder Investigation. Then They Turned on Her. - The New York Times
  • I have my love/hate relationship with murder mysteries and true crime podcasts. This is erring toward hate
• The risks of AI are real but manageable - Bill Gates notes
• Rigorous thinking: No lazy thinking - Wes Kao’s Newsletter
• You still get to choose your own life - by Elle Griffin
• The comments in this article are gold. How have you become more hard-working? — LessWrong