marginalia.
notes in the margin. what i thought when i read it, watched it, listened to it. take-first; the source is small print.
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reading book summaries is consuming food in smoothie form. that line broke my pkm habit in half.
on:@nabeelqu (@nabeelqu)
the book is one big argument: solve the chicken-and-egg problem, then never stop hand-rolling supply.
on:The Cold Start Problem — Andrew Chen
fireship explains promises better than 4 textbooks. 100 seconds, no fluff.
on:JavaScript Promises in 100 seconds — Fireship
balaji on identity → currency → state. i don't agree with all of it but the model is sticky.
on:#420 — Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State — Lex Fridman Podcast
lewis writes about SBF like he's narrating a magic trick he hasn't decided is a fraud.
on:Going Infinite — Michael Lewis
a movie about grief that doesn't soundtrack itself out of the silence. i sat through the credits.
on:All of Us Strangers (2023) — dir. Andrew Haigh
i re-read this every six months. each time a different sentence is the one that bites.
on:Do Things That Don't Scale · paulgraham.com
ben thompson's piece on anthropic's pricing is the cleanest framing i've seen for why model choice is the new database choice.
on:Anthropic's Pricing and the Compute Tax — Ben Thompson
garry tan's tweet about cofounder fights is the most accurate compressed-wisdom i've seen on YC twitter this year.
on:Garry Tan (@garrytan)
the take leads. the source is small print. i read books in original-form, not in smoothie form.