Hello everyone! More links and thoughts for you!
🏘 I finally wrapped up one of my side-projects where I used Python's Pandas library, Mathematica, Zillow data, and Redfin data to help me identify investment property opportunities.
🦜 How a Twitter engineer thinks Twitter is going to break over the coming weeks and months.
📇 Franklin Quest's Hyrum W. Smith explains (in 1994) how to use the legendary FranklinPlanner system to get organized on paper. Benjamin Franklin so inspired Smith with his Thirteen Virtues, that Smith developed an executive planning and life-management system based on them. He then named his company Franklin Quest!
In the coming weeks, I am going to be transitioning to a paper-based system for organizing my tasks. The digital system that has powered me for the last ~5 years or so is getting too difficult to maintain. I am hoping the limited space inherent in a physically-based system reduces burden and naturally trims fat.
🐝 A Redditor with ADHD breaks down coding strategies and functional patterns that work well with ADHD brains.
🔎 Sick of Google's Ads? Alternative search engines are on the rise. The lack of competition in the web search space is a reminder of its effect on innovation.
🧠 Elon Musk actually sounds really smart in this podcast with Dan Carlin. In this episode, Musk free-associates on how technological advantage can win wars. This is deep-dive technical conversation into engineering, materials science, history, and more.
🎯 Robot weed-killers are taking over farms.
💅 A new system for generating mathematical graphics automatically based on a series of constraints. This is as opposed to pre-produced, statically-generated graphics. I wish I had access to this while I was in college!
I love that people are coming up with new ways to make mathematical diagrams truly adaptive—fitting into spaces of varying aspect ratios. This is yet another reflection of our world moving towards mobile-first.
Another thought: is this technology generalizable to more-qualitative fields? Does the future of work look like one where the human isn’t doing the “artwork,” but rather, setting the parameters? I think we’re starting to see that more and more with the recent AI boom.
Other links you might like:
🏘 I finally wrapped up one of my side-projects where I used Python's Pandas library, Mathematica, Zillow data, and Redfin data to help me identify investment property opportunities.
🦜 How a Twitter engineer thinks Twitter is going to break over the coming weeks and months.
📇 Franklin Quest's Hyrum W. Smith explains (in 1994) how to use the legendary FranklinPlanner system to get organized on paper. Benjamin Franklin so inspired Smith with his Thirteen Virtues, that Smith developed an executive planning and life-management system based on them. He then named his company Franklin Quest!
In the coming weeks, I am going to be transitioning to a paper-based system for organizing my tasks. The digital system that has powered me for the last ~5 years or so is getting too difficult to maintain. I am hoping the limited space inherent in a physically-based system reduces burden and naturally trims fat.
🐝 A Redditor with ADHD breaks down coding strategies and functional patterns that work well with ADHD brains.
🔎 Sick of Google's Ads? Alternative search engines are on the rise. The lack of competition in the web search space is a reminder of its effect on innovation.
🧠 Elon Musk actually sounds really smart in this podcast with Dan Carlin. In this episode, Musk free-associates on how technological advantage can win wars. This is deep-dive technical conversation into engineering, materials science, history, and more.
🎯 Robot weed-killers are taking over farms.
💅 A new system for generating mathematical graphics automatically based on a series of constraints. This is as opposed to pre-produced, statically-generated graphics. I wish I had access to this while I was in college!
I love that people are coming up with new ways to make mathematical diagrams truly adaptive—fitting into spaces of varying aspect ratios. This is yet another reflection of our world moving towards mobile-first.
Another thought: is this technology generalizable to more-qualitative fields? Does the future of work look like one where the human isn’t doing the “artwork,” but rather, setting the parameters? I think we’re starting to see that more and more with the recent AI boom.
Other links you might like:
- Refragmentation by Paul Graham
- The NYC Subway in the 70s and 80s
- Jane Street's Signals & Threads Podcast
That's all for now!
Jack
Jack