Hat tip to everyone who is striving to be forward center of mass, building things, giving to the world and striving to be better. It takes guts and focus. Keep going. The rest is noise.

'The camera misses the point of sketching, which is to understand what you see. The machine does the work for us, and we get to skip the struggle. But it is that struggle that makes us learn and master skills.'
sketch.nono.ma/ai-misses-the-…

“The formula is simple. Do the work. Don’t be afraid to dive deep into your curiosity and your expertise. We need more people that are intensely curious. We need more people with deep expertise.” - ⁦Aaron Francis⁩ github.com/readme/guides/…

Finding your labor of love is almost always preceded by cultivating a love of labor.

Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash

Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket.

Industrial fruit jam is filled with…

'It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.' - Emma Goldman

“give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky” is even better advice than it appears on the surface.

luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc.

if I ever publish a book I want it to be very small, fit in a pocket, like a hand grenade of calmness

You order a light meal in Musanze and they give you enough food to feed a small village in Detroit

mixcloud.com/jordan-karenzi…

Life has ~600,000 hours in it. Use each hour well. The ride will be over before you know it.

I wonder if writers will eventually take the Non AI Pledge:
'I pledge AI didn't write this.'

Do You Remember The Future?

No prouder moment than putting people on to Le Chef Ivan👨🏽‍🍳 music!

Loved this exchange on HN

Happy 14th birthday to Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper! It has led to innovation and crypto asset investing. Let’s make sure as crypto enters its 15th year that investors get proper protection.

After 16 months of work I'm ready to share slowroads.io, my project to procedurally generate scenic landscapes, packaged as a chill driving game. Built with Three.js to run in your browser - no logins, no installs, just roads...

#threejs #procedural #webgl

Obsidian 1.0 is live!

1.0 brings a complete redesign to desktop and mobile.

Plus, a new way to browse your second brain: tabs. Tabs make it easier to explore many ideas at once.

Learn more: obsidian.md/1.0

Creating a pull request for a project, reviewing, approving, and merging it as the sole maintainer is the loneliest feeling ever 😅

Infinite talent that Le Chef Ivan👨🏽‍🍳 puts out! mvajuru.com