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2025-02-01T00:00:00.000Z

Digital Gardening: The Zettelkasten Method

> Moving from streams to gardens: Architecting a personal knowledge management system.

The internet was originally envisioned as a library, but it became a feed. Digital Gardening is the counter-movement returning to the idea of cumulative knowledge. Streams vs Gardens A stream (Twitter/X) emphasizes the now. A garden (Wiki) emphasizes the topol

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2025-01-15T00:00:00.000Z

Looksmaxxing, Peptides, and AI Nihilism

> Analyzing the recursive punishment strategies in superintelligent agent simulations.

The Basilisk's Wager is a thought experiment that posits the existence of a future superintelligence that might retroactively punish those who did not help bring it into existence. While often dismissed as "internet creepypasta," the underlying game theory reg

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2024-12-22T00:00:00.000Z

infornography

> A classic pattern in technology economics where layers of the stack attempt to become monopolies.

Joel Spolsky in 2002 identified a major pattern in technology business & economics: the pattern of "commoditizing your complement". Where companies seek to secure a choke-point or quasi-monopoly in products composed of many necessary & sufficient layers by dom

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