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From people telling you AI is changing everything to the glitch that left Poland off the map, a hamster's wheel experiment, a wind phone, the impossible rhythm illusion, and a swarm of blood robots.
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From lawn-mowing algorithms to being bald being better, energy hoarding, lighthouse rescues, digital sanctuaries, and the case for writing anyway.
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From playing the long game to the 500-mile email, premium mediocre living, vintage typewriters, and losing the ability to discover what we didn't know to ask.
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Accidentally saving half a million dollars, PKM is still dead, Apple II memories, LEGO Donkey Kong, reading more often, and Hanlon's Razor.
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Infinite choice to chaotic dogs, lo-fi scrolling to silver bullets, powerful questions to note arrays and why the air in the room is important.
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Comic Sans' Watchmen roots, apps build one, classic Macintosh hacks, Suncoast nostalgia, World Cup chunking, solar panels in the Alps, and gardens' healing power.
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Private jets, red-and-green squiggles, power tools gone wrong, dogs texting people and how to find out how weird you really are.
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Surrender as a life strategy, democracy's bullshit, AI doomers, tiny experiments in uncertainty, Vonnegut's life advice, and rest in peace Om.
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Tombstone exercises, founder mode, jargon monoxide, 8-bit baseball, the sky you should’ve seen and silent reading parties.
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Manufactured rock bands, molly guards, Freddie Mercury's aversion, shoelaces, grief, and the joy equation. And a bonus coversation on what it means to live well.
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Punk, zines, vanishing benches, weather-painted Rothkos, and the math that proves most of your worries never happen.
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Niceness as a skill to game theory, photographic memory myths, solar-powered websites, Earth's radio bubble, and the hidden cost of taking yourself too seriously.
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Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
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Data taken without asking to algorithms dispensing outrage, Foo Fighters going intimate, WeatherStar nostalgia, and what phone cradling is doing to our fingers and our thinking.
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From the boring internet, empty calories, and botified social media to Everest, Bourdain, conversations that surprise you, and why writing is still the most important skill you can have.