No specific invention -- electricity, aviation, automobiles, satellites, cloud computing -- gives us our 2-3% growth rate. Instead, it's the innovation treadmill itself: the constant discovery of new technologies. That's what enables the growth.

I'm a big believer in "peak experience". You've had many peak experiences in your life, and you will never "top" them. You can strive to have other peak experiences, but there are no 11-out-of-10 experiences, much less 20-out-of-10.

To change how content you are with your situation, you need to either change your situation or change your threshold for contentment. To cover your bases do both.

You should become increasingly queasy with each additional parameter your methods and functions have beyond five.

An unarmed elderly person in a crowd has a very small power isochrone, whereas a terrorist with a bomb has a terrifyingly large one. And so on.

For example, President Trump could get a given aircraft carrier to change course within an hour, whereas that's probably not within my isochrone not matter how far out in time we look.

Plot in possibility space what things you can cause to happen, per unit time; this is a "power isochrone," and it massively influences every aspect of your life.

Looks legit, do you want my PayPal password to handle the payment? Or snail mail you an envelope full of cash?

Also makes you wonder if Big Printer companies are behind redaction laws, to bump up toner usage.

Top three reasons I fail a Beat Saber song: 3) Glanced at the score. 2) Controller slipped out of my hand. 1) Just realized I've been thinking about something else for the last ten seconds. @BeatSaber

It was very good reporting by Business Insider on data centers at least:

This screenshot is paperwork that Business Insider obtained regarding data center licenses. And you think the Epstein files will have juicy, un-redacted information? It will ALL have been redacted for "national security reasons".

The key to surviving short-form video feeds is recognizing that “this video instinctively appeals to some part of my brain” but then choosing to skip to the next video anyway.

I’m avoiding the trailers for Hail Mary since I know I’m going to watch it. I tore through the book and loved the story, but it felt like young adult level writing.

This review of the biography “The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett” made me realize I knew nothing about the man behind the many mega-famous many worlds interpretation of QM.

Life is a long sequence of "Oh, that's what they meant!" when you realize something you were told eons ago now makes sense.

Oh man, from the headline I thought they blew up a Starlink sat. https://t.co/2xucSGnGSD

Unsafe autocompletes on YT!

I LOL’d when Kyoko stabs Nathan in the back because Oscar Isaac responds with a pitch perfect, “You stabbed me in the back!” expression

One lesson from working on FreeForm twenty-five years ago was that while slow graphics frame rates "look jumpy", slow haptic update rates "feel mushy". https://t.co/e5M01dBDUw

WTF, blood is our 9th largest export? https://t.co/OwLGQkbKa7