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The Only Digital Detox That Worked

Becca Farsace did something I've been circling for years. She left her phone at home and went out into the world carrying a Hasselblad, a notebook, a pen, a cassette player, and a book. Directions written down. Phone numbers scrawled on paper. The whole thing. The first rule

Staring At Your Shoes

There's a David Goggins clip that keeps doing the rounds where he talks about staring at his shoes for 30 minutes before getting up and going out the door for a run. The man everyone holds up as the pinnacle of mental toughness, dreading the thing he'

A Very Good Guess

Matt Birchler links to a piece from 404 Media about chatbots being terrible doctors: I think there's something to be understood here about the difference between memorizing every bit of information about something, with the ability to deploy that information effectively. This is the bit that gets lost

Already Battered

Five weeks into the new year and I'm done. The small break I had over Christmas has completely evaporated, replaced by a wall of work that feels deliberately designed to stop me from getting anywhere. I thought the pace might ease off a bit after the holidays. If

WhatsApp, Encryption, and the Trouble With Reputation

Nick Heer linking to Matthew Green's analysis of the new WhatsApp encryption lawsuit: even with Meta's scumbag reputation — it is difficult for me to believe the company is simply lying about end-to-end encryption, and Green presents compelling evidence for why this is unlikely. A vulnerability? Perhaps.

The Fear Was Real But Pointless

I joked with my wife yesterday about injuring myself on purpose. Pulling a muscle on the stairs, twisting an ankle in the garden, anything to give me a reason not to go out and do the 28km long run sitting in my plan. She laughed, I laughed, but underneath those

Vibing & Coding

Matt Birchler is asking people not to call him a Vibe Coder: I am an app developer, not a vibe coder, and I think this is a significant, and increasingly common workflow for all developers going forward. I am sure the term "vibe coder" was born of derision

The Fear That Keeps Me Up

Brady McDonald was talking about running through pain. The kind of pain that makes every part of you scream to stop. He said he couldn’t stand the thought of his kids asking him why he didn’t do something he said he would, and that line has been rattling

Apple Hands Siri to Google

Joint statement from Google and Apple Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri

Envy: The Only Sin That Never Feels Good

I was listening to Chris Williamson interview Andrew Huberman on Modern Wisdom and something Huberman said has been sitting with me for a while. When people face uncomfortable feelings, most turn them into self-destruction or the destruction of others. People who do well in life transmute (his words, not mine)