2024 Week 40 - Weekly Notes

This was the second week of 100 days of note-taking, and it’s been taking time to loosen up my writing. I’ve been mulling over personal problems to global ones. Otherwise, I wrote a newsletter, which has more personal updates.

Around the Technosphere

• The Verge - OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving
• Hurricane Helene: Florida Braces for Landfall as Storm Intensifies
  • And this week, it’s Hurricane Milton
• Jonas Hietala - Why I still blog after 15 years
• Taro Langner, Tensor Labbet - Summary of Ilya Sutskevers AI Reading List
• The Verge - Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone
• The New York Times - California’s Governor Gavin Newsom Vetoes Sweeping A.I. Legislation
• Erik Bernhardsson - It’s hard to write code for computers, but it’s even harder to write code for humans
• Jimmy H Miller - Being Raised by the Internet
• Riot Games Technology - A Taxonomy of Tech Debt
• Nadia Odunayo’s Masterclass - Let’s bootstrap a startup from 0-1
• OpenFreeMap

  OpenFreeMap lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.

  • Everything is open-source
• Simon Willison - NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
• Nicholas Carlini - How I Use “AI”
  • I’m inspired to write my own version and have it updated regularly
• ngrok blog - How we built ngrok’s data platform
• The Grug Brained Developer
• Jake Lazaroff - A Local-First Case Study
• TutorialKit - Create interactive coding tutorials
• bolt.new
  • Stackblitz’s announcement. I’ve learned my lesson - make it build projects, not necessarily dev tools
• Content Strategy for Creators in Tech: The Pyramid of Interest
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• Simple Bench - Reasoning Ranking
• OpenAI - Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
• How to synchronize reactive local-first apps with TinyBase

What in the world?

• If you’ve purchased those illustrated editions of Harry Potter, MinaLima will no longer be creating them.
• The Register - 91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return to office
  • In comparison, Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday from Ars Technica
  • Entrepreneur - Google Recommits to Hybrid Work Schedule Unlike Amazon
• The New York Times - How the Cost of Housing Became So Crushing
• The New York Times - Meet the Star of Sushi-Con: A 400-Pound Tuna - this exists? Of course it does.
• The New York Times - ‘The Interview’: John Oliver Is Still Working Through the Rage
• The Atlantic - The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

The Mind Within

• PDF - Learning 101: The Untaught Basics - by Junaid Qadir and Muhammad Ali Imran
• The Curiosity Chronicle (Sahil Bloom) - The Flow State Boot Up Sequence
• Psyche Guides - How to do mental time travel

Obits

• Kris Kristofferson, Country Singer, Songwriter and Actor, Dies at 88
• Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90

Comes Recommended

• Book - Feng Shui Modern by Cliff Tan and Dura Lee
  • From their super popular TikToks
• Book - Banchan: 60 Korean American Recipes for Delicious by Caroline Choe

Videos

‘How I bootstrapped The StoryGraph to nearly 3M users’ with Nadia Odunayo.

What ‘Every Frame a Painting’ Teaches Us About Editing