I received my physical copy of Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading by Nadia Asparouhova and immediately started reading.

Absolutely FLOORED by Yancey’s TED talk. Been following him for many years and supporting his ideas, big and small. This is maybe the biggest of them all. A lot of people talk about supporting artists and creators, but Yancey has made it his mission and I truly believe it will be his legacy.

Clone is pretty cool. Link quality feels a little mid or too mainstream a lot of the time. I want weirder links from non-mainstream sources. I visit daily though and can’t say that about a lot of sites.

Worth reading Sam’s latest post, The Gentle Singularity. The challenging thing, at least for me, is not to roll my eyes too much. I can have doubts. How much of what he talks about will really come to pass by 2035? Maybe some. Maybe more. It doesn’t matter if you agree, disagree, drink the Kool-Aid or not. What matters is whether you are capable of catching your cynicism and instead engaging your imagination. How difficult is that for you? Because that is a reflection of how you see the world. You can choose. And your choice won’t have any bearing on the outcome, but it will impact how you live the rest of your life.

There is a genre of YouTube videos that I cannot get enough of. I think they’re simply called reaction videos, but the premise is that people listen to albums for the first time ever. There are tons of these videos on YouTube. I think it all started with turning the tables for me, though I think they’ve kinda jumped the shark at this point. I just finished watching a bunch of stoners listen to In Rainbows for the first time and was laughing so hard I was crying. Do yourself a favor and watch them listen to the first few tracks.

I have a feeling this post from Dustin Curtis is going to get some attention. I use AI a lot, though maybe not as much as he does when it comes to thinking. I do that less than I used to do. I’ve actually been writing more and doing so with pen and paper, if you can believe that.

The Beth Gibbons Tiny Desk is really something.

I continue to find great things such as this in Bear’s Discovery feed

Turnstile performing live in Baltimore. Wow. Maybe things will be ok.

I got two new (paper) books this week – Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod, which I began immediately and Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity by Eric Topol.

Enjoyed Simone Giertz’s latest video where she made a flip clock moon thingie.

I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but seeing Erin Morton perform it gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow.

It’s worth your time to watch Chris Anderson’s interview with Sam Altman at TED.

I finished The Courage To Be Disliked today, sitting outside of gget in Los Feliz. It was one of those books that I had to force myself to finish, which isn’t something I usually do. I did not particularly enjoy the book, though I did enjoy learning about Alderian psychology. I would have rather have learned about it, not through what read like a fake interview (most of the time), but as different kind of book. All that said, I’m certain what I learned will stay with me for a while and I’ll be processing it for some time.

Jon Haidt’s appearance on The Ezra Klein Show was a good listen. If you’ve read The Anxious Generation, you will have some idea of what to expect, but I thought the conversation was insightful and Ezra’s questions were generally good. He’s had some great guests on recently.