Now—July 2026 🔗
My daughter’s first birthday came and went. My second father’s day has passed by. Everyone says it, but the time really goes so fast. I’ve gone from k [...]
Derek Kedziora
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The company you keep 🔗
The internet is going to be remembered as a giant petri dish of social contagion. Weird sex stuff Weird violence stuff One of the most chanted texts i [...]
Physical constraints and enjoyment 🔗
I’m back to thinking about constraints. This time, Terry Godier’s great video The Feeling Music Used to Give You (hat tip to Robert). Having what amou [...]
Of God and mammon 🔗
There’s a longstanding criticism of Buddhism in the West as McMindfulness™, a watered-down and commodified version of the real thing. And it’s certain [...]
Revisiting the closed canon 🔗
A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individua [...]
Solar power in Amsterdam: the numbers 🔗
I’m in the market for a home battery, because it is soon going to be less profitable to sell electricity back to the grid in the Netherlands. I decide [...]
Constraints and intellectual work 🔗
I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you [...]
Design fads 🔗
Not surprisingly, Apple is pulling the plug on their silly VR goggles or whatever they’re called. At least they didn’t rename the company after the go [...]
Foundations for discussion 🔗
From an aside of a much longer essay from Tom Forth: I am infamously negative about calls for more complex and nuanced discussions in UK public policy [...]