Notes on faith. Based in San Francisco.
When I was a kid, my friend's dad found a new largest prime number. He had added one small step to a continuous record humanity has kept alive since Euclid. I thought it was awesome. Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild's beautiful visualization renders 63,
It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel . Romans 9:6 Check out this wonderfully viral clip of Tucker Carlson digging into Senator Ted Cruz's theology: The Senator's theology could clearly use a
antimeme (noun): an idea, fact, or entity that erases or prevents knowledge of itself from being remembered, recognized, or transmitted after it is perceived. I. Sometimes a book is so intense that I have to set it down against my will. The Bible does that to me regularly. Very rarely
One of the most astounding things about the Bible is how deep the connections are. For example: Noah's ark rested on the same day as Jesus was resurrected--thousands of years before, as a pre-anniversary. Take Genesis 8:4: 4 And the ark rested in the seventh
The phrase "became Christian" doesn't sound quite right, because in my limited understanding, what actually happens is a switch deep within you flips; you realize you'd been fundamentally wrong, callous, and obnoxious all those years; you rewind your memory playback mechanism to all the
One thing I loved about living in Singapore were the plants. Great, big, leafy trees; vines draped over the side of a building; palm fronds framing the gleaming skyscrapers. It made me feel like my desk was in a forest. I felt good. From Wired, haven't read the
Sam Altman said there are two kinds of startups: the ones that build for models as they are today, and the ones that build for models as they will be. Obviously, the latter category is a better place to be in. The same applies to your little projects: they should
A friend wrote this book I read about ten years ago. I understood that I didn't understand risk. I was a "word thinker"--someone who would rely on internal argumentation vs a visceral understanding of risk, especially tail risk. I vowed to be able to understand
Is there depth and complexity our inner selves, or are we shallow? In The Mind is Flat , Nick Chater argues the latter. Perhaps we are akin to low-grade LLMs predicting the next word. And perhaps the self is an illusion. But even illusions can be useful. The imagined self
Perhaps the least obvious thing is that the most obvious things are not obvious. Common sense is uncommon. Simple things are hard. Since I discussed this with my friend, Jake, I started writing down obvious things as Ray has written about in Principles . I want to share that with you.
The biggest mistake when I tried to start a company was thinking it was about finding a problem: the real problem is not having a worldview. What does it mean to have a worldview? It means being able to partition companies, information, and people into "good" and "
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Communities are built around third places Meet Ladonia : a micronation with an online community. Though only a fraction of the declared citizens are within the declared geographic perimeter at any given time, they participate in governance and social customs in online forums year-round: Facebook group, or micronation? Source . The
You're Not Paying For Pixels The right-click-save-as guys often remark that because they and everyone else can see images without paying, NFTs are not valuable. However, the opposite is true: those NFTs are valuable precisely because everyone can see the images. The more people see
Even founders fundraising slip into status harvesting instead of company building. A friend of mine runs a great company. Chip hasn't gone to college and can't code, yet is on a $1mm+ run rate this year. I could learn a thing or two from him. One