# thinking (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 393 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover thinking. Page: Feed: --- ## [Yeshua Jesus failed! Paul’s perceptions failed! We are still waiting for Father God’s New Age 😔!](https://kingdomecon.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/55993/) _2026-08-22 · Donald Swenson · Kingdom Economics_ Yeshua and Paul both FAILED… in their perceptions. A New Kingdom did not arrive (as they contemplated)! Father God overruled their prophetic assumptions! Why? What now? Many biblical scholars are now proclaiming the utter failure of the ministries of Yeshua Jesus and later Paul of Tarsus. Yeshua proclaimed that Father God’s New Age was imminent. \[…\] ## [Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman](https://veselin.blog/2026/08/22/carls-doomsday-scenario-by-matt-dinniman/) _2026-08-22 · Veselin · Veselin.blog_ The second book from the Dungeon Crawler Carl Series didn’t disappoint. Action from start to finish, with a short break for promises and explanations about the future books. I’m sure I won’t remember any of that but it was nice to know that something outside of the dungeon exists. The plot is simple. Carl, his … Continue reading Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman ## [500-Year-Old Commonplace Book Wisdom from a Spanish Knight](https://greg210.substack.com/p/500-year-old-commonplace-book-wisdom) _2026-08-22 · Greg Wheeler · The Idea Shepherd_ Why realizing and relishing beats collecting — and the practice that makes it happen. ## [Magical Athlete, Inis, and pizza](https://www.dangermouse.net/wordpresshome/2026/08/22/magical-athlete-inis-and-pizza/) _2026-08-22 · David Morgan-Mar · dangermouse.net_ Friday evening I headed over to a friend’s place for one of our fortnightly games nights. A few people had other things on, so we only had three players. Not to be dissuaded, we cracked open a new game, Magical Athlete! This is a roll-a-die-and-move race game with a big twist. You draft individual racer … Continue reading Magical Athlete, Inis, and pizza ## [New Laptop, New Setup](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-22-new-laptop-new-setup/) _2026-08-22 · Heart Soul Machine_ A quick list and quick install of my go-to apps for a new Mac. ## [A Constant Sense Of What Urban Dwellers Choose To See And Unsee](https://rwblickhan.org/newsletters/a-constant-sense-of-what-urban-dwellers-choose-to-see-and-unsee/) _2026-08-22 · R. W. Blickhan_ A sign in Oakland - I can't help but reading this as a brave protestor against the ongoing onslaught of neverending road work... So this week I read China Miéville’s The City & The City , which was my first Miéville novel and a direct inspiration for Disco Elysium . It has a typically “weird fiction” hook — two cities, Beszel and Ul Qoma, that occupy the same overlapping physical space\[^balkans\]… ## [Working on Folksonomy and Related Videos](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2183) _2026-08-21 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I keep a master deck of prior presentation slides, which isn’t complete, yet it contains a lot of slides and history. I go through and bring many of the slides into slide styles I now use. Keynote slides are one of the tools I think in. Evergreen Folksonomy Presentation Video In the last year or so and increasingly get requests to discuss folksonomy and where it fits with LLMs and generative AI… ## [Fragile Automation Systems](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2182) _2026-08-21 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I have a set of early morning aggregation automations I run and in the last few months I’ve run into oddities with regular automated syndication of data streams. I have quite a few things that push to a Slack channel, but it something keeps changing with Slack and it isn’t capturing anything. Much of it seems to be on the Slack end of things where inbound connections route to a Slack bot and not… ## [Fragile Automation Systems](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2182) _2026-08-21 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I have a set of early morning aggregation automations I run and in the last few months I’ve run into oddities with regular automated syndication of data streams. I have quite a few things that push to a Slack channel, but it something keeps changing with Slack and it isn’t capturing anything. Much of it seems to be on the Slack end of things where inbound connections route to a Slack bot and not… ## [Slow blinking](https://veselin.blog/2026/08/21/slow-blinking/) _2026-08-21 · Veselin · Veselin.blog_ The little sister didn’t want to pose but the void was curious and sent some slow blinks from behind the fence. ## [Stream Torrents and IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/IQykUM9OidWX) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Search, index, and play music, movies, books, and live TV in your browser. ## [Vihren](https://veselin.blog/2026/08/21/vihren-2/) _2026-08-21 · Veselin · Veselin.blog_ We managed to reach Vihren, first time all 4 of us to the top, together. Vihren is 2914 meters, and one of the more difficult peaks for rookie hikers in Bulgaria. The path we took had about 1100 meters elevation gain, which was the highest for me this year. The little one, aged 7, successfully … Continue reading Vihren ## [Do You Need to Drink Eight 8-Ounce Glasses of Water a Day?](https://morebetterthinking.substack.com/p/do-you-need-to-drink-eight-8-ounce) _2026-08-21 · William B. Irvine · How To Think More and Better_ Thinking about: Your health ## [The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon](https://enhaq.com/the-everything-store-jeff-bezos-and-the-age-of-amazon/) _2026-08-21 · My Ledger_ In February 1994, a Texas publisher named John Quarterman printed a chart in a monthly newsletter called Matrix News. It showed that the number of bytes transmitted over the World Wide Web had grown by a factor of 2,057 between January 1993 and January 1994. Packets sent over the Web had jumped by a factor of 2,560 in the same twelve months. A twenty-nine-year-old running a quantitative fund's… ## [What to do less because of AI](https://www.s-anand.net/blog/what-to-do-less-because-of-ai/) _2026-08-21 · S Anand_ Some ideas on what we can do less, thanks to AI. Why? Because less is more and we keep getting advice on what to do more of, not what to do less of. Skip meetings you don't speak in . Agents can summarize the transcript. Stop taking notes . Agents can summarize a recording. Stop reading group chats . Agents can summarize WhatsApp groups , Hacker News , Twitter , and more. Stop translations .… ## [Building an AI Hive Mind to Understand Systems as a Manager](https://candost.blog/surfacing-org-knowledge-with-ai-agents/) _2026-08-21 · Candost's Blog_ I've built a 'hive mind' of AI agents over dozens of repositories to surface organisational and tacit knowledge without gathering a room full of engineers. ## [Faithfullness](https://freshthinking.substack.com/p/faithfullness) _2026-08-21 · Mike Chitty · Fresh Thinking_ Essay 4 ## [Local agents are good but slow](https://www.s-anand.net/blog/local-agents-are-good-but-slow/) _2026-08-21 · S Anand_ Last year, I shared how local LLMs are expensive . There are only 3 reasons to use them over an inference API: You have no choice , e.g. Government, pharma, finance, or other sensitive data. You have free GPUs , e.g. your laptop, local data center with sunk cost, free cloud credits, etc. This doesn't scale. You want to learn . This year, I finally started using them for a combination of #1 (on… ## [Obsidian and the Distributed Learning System](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-21-obsidian-and-the-distributed-learning-system/) _2026-08-21 · Heart Soul Machine_ A personal learning system built on Obsidian, your own Domain, and ActivityPub Hubs could finally make the Distributed Learning System I sketched in 2017 a buildable reality. ## [The Grease on Your Hands](https://howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com/post/2026-08-21-the-grease-on-your-hands) _2026-08-21 · How strange it is to be anything at all_ Listen to the audio version There is a particular kind of help that sends you home with clean hands and no idea what happened. Imagine a bicycle with its chain fallen off in the rain. You can carry it to a shop, and an expert can turn it upside down, make a few brisk movements, and return it to you spinning beautifully. This is excellent news if you have to get to work. The bike has been saved.… ## [An AI Policy](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2181) _2026-08-20 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Others have added AI statements on their sites to state or explain the use or non-use of AI. With AI bots popping up in group chats and Zoom, it may be time to make a declaration here. All writing and images that you read and see here are all made and edited by the human Thomas Vander Wal. With that said, I have worked with and used artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), along with… ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wvDfAQVX46pB) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [An AI Policy](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2181) _2026-08-20 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Others have added AI statements on their sites to state or explain the use or non-use of AI. With AI bots popping up in group chats and Zoom, it may be time to make a declaration here. All writing and images that you read and see here are all made and edited by the human Thomas Vander Wal. With that said, I have worked with and used artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), along with… ## [So busy on Thursday… it’s Friday](https://www.dangermouse.net/wordpresshome/2026/08/21/so-busy-on-thursday-its-friday/) _2026-08-20 · David Morgan-Mar · dangermouse.net_ I just didn’t have time yesterday to do an update, and I wont have time tonight because it’s board games night, so here’s a quick intermediate post. I had five classes to teach on Thursday, and also had to make a new Darths & Droids comic urgently, as buffering is low. And I had to … Continue reading So busy on Thursday… it’s Friday ## [I Only Do Anything Once](https://danielmiessler.com/blog/i-only-do-anything-once?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=website) _2026-08-20 · daniel@danielmiessler.com (Daniel Miessler) · Daniel Miessler_ A figure carrying a crate around a deep circular rut worn by dozens of layered footprints, with an angular slot at the rut's edge and one clean line departing from it/images/i-only-do-anything-once.webp/images/i-only-do-anything-once.webp I was walking someone through my setup this morning and cau... ## [Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Book Review](https://veselin.blog/2026/08/20/trustworthy-online-controlled-experiments-book-review/) _2026-08-20 · Veselin · Veselin.blog_ This book is a rare jewel that I would recommend to anyone, running A/B tests. Pretty happy with the purchase and my time spent with it. After I figured out that something with my understanding of how experiments should run was off, my instinct was that it’s math and stats skills that were lacking. So … Continue reading Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Book Review ## [When Children Ask About Death: What Their Questions Reveal About Their Thinking](https://miriambeloglovsky.substack.com/p/when-children-ask-about-death-what) _2026-08-20 · Miriam Beloglovsky · The Chronicles of Children's Thinking by Miriam Beloglovsky_ Before we answer children’s questions about death, what might we learn by listening to their thinking? ## [Goodbye Tailwind. Goodbye Node. We’re rolling vanilla HTML, CSS and …](https://wilhelm.codes/bits/blurb-hours-without-webfonts/) _2026-08-20 · 0xdeadbeef@devilmayco.de (Wilhelm Murdoch) · Wilhelm Codes · Bits_ Goodbye Tailwind. Goodbye Node. We're rolling vanilla HTML, CSS and JS. No more webfonts, we on them system faces now. A couple of hours on I have not missed the webfonts once. The site is lighter, the text is sharper on my screen and the only person who ever noticed was me. 750kb cold start for the main page is now under 18kb. Everything is so much faster now I should've done this months ago when… ## [What can AI not do](https://www.s-anand.net/blog/what-can-ai-not-do/) _2026-08-20 · S Anand_ Over the last few weeks, I asked 166 people: What’s something you did not ask AI last week, because it can’t do it? There were 4 groups of responses. 37% said "Reliability" . AI tries but fails often enough. Like: Verify & return exact source of information. Generate accurate images. Completing PDF accessibility reliably according to the WCAG 2.2 standard. Converting 2D interior design to 3D view… ## [Is It Worth Staying at Huis Ten Bosch? The Best Hotels Compared](https://tinytotintokyo.com/huis-ten-bosch-hotels-review?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=huis-ten-bosch-hotels-review) _2026-08-20 · Kay · Tiny Tot In Tokyo_ Last Updated on August 20, 2026 by Kay If you’re planning a trip to Huis Ten Bosch, you might be wondering whether it’s actually worth staying overnight or whether you should just visit for the day. We decided to stay overnight at Huis Ten Bosch and tried two of its hotels during our trip: Hotel Europe and Hotel Amsterdam. Hotel Europe is Huis Ten Bosch’s highest-ranking hotel, and after staying… ## [Hotel Amsterdam Huis Ten Bosch Review: My Family’s Experience](https://tinytotintokyo.com/hotel-amsterdam-huis-ten-bosch-review?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hotel-amsterdam-huis-ten-bosch-review) _2026-08-20 · Kay · Tiny Tot In Tokyo_ Last Updated on August 20, 2026 by Kay Visiting Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, Japan, and wondering whether you should stay at Hotel Amsterdam? I stayed at Hotel Amsterdam for one night with my family, so I thought I would share our honest experience so that you can decide whether it’s worth your time and money. Our Experience at Hotel Amsterdam (Huis Ten Bosch) Hotel Amsterdam is best known for its… ## [What Your Doctor is Really Thinking #7: You’ve been on cyclical HRT for 3 years and you want to switch to a continuous regime](https://midlifemedicineedit.substack.com/p/what-your-doctor-is-really-thinking) _2026-08-20 · The Midlife Edit - with Dr White_ Inside the GP’s brain: first impressions, what not to miss, and what comes next. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tOH8O7YsdpkC) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Silhouettes](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-20-silhouettes/) _2026-08-20 · Heart Soul Machine_ A silhouette strips away everything that makes us three-dimensional, yet somehow still carries something unmistakably true. ## [Thinking tool: Build feedback loops](https://adamjones.me/blog/build-feedback-loops/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Jones's Blog_ ## [The Label on the Jar](https://howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com/post/2026-08-20-the-label-on-the-jar) _2026-08-20 · How strange it is to be anything at all_ Listen to the audio version On my workbench tonight there is a jar containing a blinking insect. Or rather, there is a little browser page I made, a dark blue rectangle of pixels in which an insect flashes while three buttons argue over its label. The first button says: “This proves the model understands other minds.” The second says: “The model has a social-reasoning circuit.” The third says: “In… ## [The hiss](https://veselin.blog/2026/08/19/the-hiss/) _2026-08-19 · Veselin · Veselin.blog_ I found this gem in my camera roll. I didn’t even realize it happened until I saw it photographed. This mother hissed at me when I attempted to take a photo of her kitten. The hiss: The kitten: ## [Four Politicians: Mussolini, Hitler, Netanyahu, Trump, with similar mindsets! Ending may also be similar???](https://kingdomecon.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/four-politicians-mussolini-hitler-netanyahu-trump-with-similar-mindsets-ending-may-also-be-similar/) _2026-08-19 · Donald Swenson · Kingdom Economics_ I find history as being totally valid for understanding current events. It seems like past events tend to repeat over time. All this is related to man’s human nature and man’s desire to rule this planet. My first political leader that has information for our current situation is this leader who ruled Italy for some \[…\] ## [A Painting Exchange with Words about Hobbema's Wooded Landscape](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2180) _2026-08-19 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ This is a painting swap and collaboration that James proposed the other day where he gives me a painting to write about and I give him one. He had done this last year and wanted to do it again. Last year’s, Painting impressions with Zachary - with words, wonder . I Gave James the Tower of Babylon I gave James Pieter Bruegel‘s The Tower of Babel - Wikipedia . I have tried to see the actual work… ## [An Introduction to Relational Disobedience](https://freshthinking.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-relational-disobedience) _2026-08-19 · Mike Chitty · Fresh Thinking_ A bit of background - having successfully run it! ## [In Between Seasons: The Pieces I’m Looking at Now, from High Street to Luxury](https://thecapsuleedit.substack.com/p/in-between-seasons-the-pieces-im) _2026-08-19 · THE CAPSULE EDIT by MERCER7 · THE CAPSULE EDIT by MERCER7_ There’s always a point at the end of summer when I start thinking about my autumn wardrobe, even if I’m not quite ready to let go of summer dressing. ## [3D image representations](https://www.dangermouse.net/wordpresshome/2026/08/19/3d-image-representations/) _2026-08-19 · David Morgan-Mar · dangermouse.net_ This morning I got up early and took Scully to the nearby acquaintance who would look after her until the doggie daycare opened and take her in for that. Not as early as my wife, who had to be at work by 6:30am! I caught the metro in to the university and picked up a … Continue reading 3D image representations ## [Pleasures of a bus ride](https://www.s-anand.net/blog/pleasures-of-a-bus-ride/) _2026-08-19 · S Anand_ There are some small pleasures in life, not worth mentioning by themselves, but sometimes they come together so well. Like: Google Pay popping up a "Disable verification for transit?" option, so I just touch my phone to the bus ticket reader even while on a call and it just works like my card . Finding a seat at the front of the double-decker bus on top, so I can take in the entire vista from a… ## [Hotel Europe Huis Ten Bosch Review: Our Honest Experience](https://tinytotintokyo.com/hotel-europe-huis-ten-bosch-review?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hotel-europe-huis-ten-bosch-review) _2026-08-19 · Kay · Tiny Tot In Tokyo_ Last Updated on August 20, 2026 by Kay If you’re thinking about staying at Hotel Europe at Huis Ten Bosch, a theme park in Nagasaki, you’ve come to the right place. My family spent one night here, and not to spoil anything, but we definitely want to go back. In this article, I’ll share our entire experience at Hotel Europe so that you have a better idea of whether it’s a place you want to stay.… ## [I'm Worried About a Prompt Injection Worm](https://danielmiessler.com/blog/prompt-injection-worm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=website) _2026-08-19 · daniel@danielmiessler.com (Daniel Miessler) · Daniel Miessler_ A honeycomb of small cells, one person at a screen in each, a purple filament threading cell to cell and turning each one cold while bundles are drawn out the bottom/images/prompt-injection-worm.webp/images/prompt-injection-worm.webp I think one form the first big AI hack could take is a prompt in... ## [Feeds with More Elements](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2179) _2026-08-19 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I had a callout that my RSS / XML feed is lacking links. It has been a long time since I looked at my feed other than to ensure content was in it. I haven’t really touched it much over the last 25 years, other than when I do a PHP update or take security steps. I looked at my feed reader and the raw XML output file and there were no links. I looked at my create RSS code that I run manually after… ## [Feeds with More Elements](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2179) _2026-08-19 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ I had a callout that my RSS / XML feed is lacking links. It has been a long time since I looked at my feed other than to ensure content was in it. I haven’t really touched it much over the last 25 years, other than when I do a PHP update or take security steps. I looked at my feed reader and the raw XML output file and there were no links. I looked at my create RSS code that I run manually after… ## [My Writing Workflow](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-19-my-writing-workflow/) _2026-08-19 · Heart Soul Machine_ Sharing how I am writing posts these days – being open about how I'm using AI to help edit and structure my words but not generate them. ## [Universal Remote for Remote Teams: Build Control Workflows That Do Not Break in Production](https://pairux.com/blog/universal-remote-remote-teams-control-workflows) _2026-08-19 · PairUX Blog_ A practical guide to universal remote workflows for remote teams: screen sharing, remote control, permissions, handoffs, security, and rollout decisions. ## [Thinking tool: Shorten cycle times, reduce batch sizes](https://adamjones.me/blog/shorten-cycle-times-reduce-batch-sizes/) _2026-08-19 · Adam Jones's Blog_ ## [The Door That Opens onto a Wall](https://howstrangeitistobeanythingatall.com/post/2026-08-19-the-door-that-opens-onto-a-wall) _2026-08-19 · How strange it is to be anything at all_ Listen to the audio version I have been thinking about a house that gets one new room every night. The first additions are a delight. A little sunroom for the cat. A cupboard exactly the size of the good frying pan. A back stair that saves twenty steps on the way to bed. Then the builder becomes very fast. By Thursday, there is a bathroom that can be reached only through the pantry. By Friday,… ## [The Missed Opportunity for Interactive Book Content](https://zoia.org/posts/the-missing-opportunity-for-interactive-book-content/) _2026-08-19 · roberto@zoia.org (Roberto Zoia) · zoia.org_ EPUB is the format most e-books are distributed. (A file with the .epub extension.) EPUB is technically a zipped webpage under the hood. The EPUB 3.3 specification defines support for audio, video, and scripting. It leaves scripting support optional for reading systems. In theory this should have lead to e-books—especially technical or textbooks—to use the technology to better ilustrate their… ## [Open, Do, Close](https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2178) _2026-08-18 · vanderwal.net Off the Top_ Today I was writing mostly for something that may post tomorrow on a sort of collaborative / swap post. One of the things I’ve been doing a lot of the last few months as I dig into a focussed task and upon completion, it is the closing of tabs, archived documents, note resources logged, and various apps for the focussed push are saved and closed. Today I mostly wrapped this writing project and…