What isn’t earned isn’t valued 🔗
I’ve spent the last week in Arizona. When I was packing I almost forgot to bring along my Arizona driver’s license, which was unceremoniously cast to [...]
Derek Kedziora
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Llama Llama 🔗
The first time I heard a Llama Llama book being read was my wife reading the Ukrainian version to our daughter. Ukrainian is a very melodic language a [...]
Equanimity and genocide 🔗
I recently listened to two completely unrelated Buddhist lectures that involved developing equanimity as an important part of Buddhist ethics. Both we [...]
Proof of life out there 🔗
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet? is a great read. We have precisely zero evidence of advanced life in the universe beyond Earth [...]
The secret to longevity 🔗
It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]