2024 Week 32 - Weekly Notes
This week marked a transition with my PKM where I made huge updates to my vault thanks to the Ideaverse v1.5 migration.
- I’m slowly migrating away from the PARA flow, although it will be a long time until resources and archive are going to be migrated
- A huge lift is thanks to some script automation that Claude has been helping with. Many scripts are going to be saved and added to my magic sand repo.
Currently Reading: Burn Book, by Kara Swisher. If you live in Silicon Valley and have wanted to know inside baseball with the elite who are in the area or are influencing the area, this is the book to read.
Also Reading: Frostbite by Nicola Twilley
- The UK sent out a decree in the 1850s that stated protein is the only nutrition that matters affected the landscape of what Britain’s ate. The slaughter of animals meant that there was a huge push to try to transport livestock to the cities transitioning to dead stock, this is had a crazy amount of effect. No one anticipated these early globalization efforts.
Around the technosphere
- Sam Altman - The days are long but the decades are short
- Josh Horowitz runs a website called Gallery of Concept Visualization which is a fantastic resource to data visualization
- Transforming our National Park maps: a conversation with Nate Irwin
Nate Irwin’s team made the first digital National Park Service maps. We sat down to understand how they transformed the visitor experience one map at a time.
- Linus Lee - A beginner’s guide to exploration
- Another example of non-acquihire - Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google
- Nicholas Carlini - How I Use “AI”
- More about the usefulness of AI on Egghead - Productive Developer Workflows with AI Enhanced Cursor IDE
- I’m collecting different sources in order to make my own guide
- Learn How To Learn - How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly
- It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code - ed weissman
- So much tape to get code pushed to production
- Don’t be lazy
- Y’all are sleeping on HTTP/3
- Do Quests, Not Goals - We should pursue “quests” rather than “goals”. Quests are personal adventures that change us, while goals are just practical attempts to change our circumstances. Quests involve overcoming internal obstacles (“dragons”) and lead to personal growth and life-expanding rewards.
- Intel’s Immiseration - by Babbage - The Chip Letter
- Intel’s financial results were very poor, with declining revenue, margins, and earnings.
- Intel is planning significant job cuts to reduce costs.
- Intel’s turnaround plans are still in the early stages and have not yet shown significant results.
- Intel’s failure to diversify beyond its core x86 processor business is seen as the root cause of its decline.
- My Failed Personal Site Redesign - Jim Nielsen’s Blog - Jim Nielsen describes his failed attempt at redesigning his personal website. He was inspired by the comic-book style of Anh’s website and the large “DAVE” hero text on Dave’s homepage. He went through several iterations of the redesign, experimenting with hand-drawn comic strips and different layout approaches. However, he never got the design to a point where he was fully satisfied, especially on mobile.
- Ultimately, he decided not to ship the new design and instead kept his existing website. But he archived the work he did as a blog post for posterity.
Around the world and back
- Philippe Petit Still Goes on High Wires, 50 Years After His Twin Towers Walk - The New York Times
- I loved the documentary, Man on Wire.
- Commoncog - Don’t Read History for Lessons
- The New York Times - How to Exercise to Improve Your Mood
- The New York Times - How Does Your State Make Electricity?
- The visualizations are excellent in tracking how the US is changing its energy landscape state by state
- Los Angeles Times - California officials extend Diablo Canyon operations
- The visualization above reminded me California still have nuclear energy. Even if it’s only one plant left.
- In the infrastructure book, redundancy is key for resiliance
- The First Fitbit: How the Fitness Tracker Was Engineered - IEEE Spectrum
The first Fitbit was designed for women, with a clip-on form factor that could be worn discreetly on a bra. The founders faced challenges in developing the step-counting algorithms and manufacturing the device, but the first Fitbit shipped in 2009.
Obits
Recommendations
- Course: Second Brain for Content Creators by Matt Giaro
- Podcast: Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend - Ted Danson & Woody Harrelson Are Reunited!
- Course: Boot.dev - Learn Backend Development the Fun Way
- App: ProNotes - An Apple Notes extension that makes your favourite note-taking app even more enjoyable to use. Includes backlinking!
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