Good tokens 2025-08-21
2025-08-22
Things I learned
A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of jaguars is a shadow.
Worth your time
Adding an age check reduced online porn traffic in the UK by 47%. Whether or not you believe it is right, I believe it is unlikely that ten years from now people will be unable to get porn online without verifying their age in some way.
What kids say about getting off their phones. Freedom is the killer app.
Zhengdongwang on whether or not AI is a normal technology. Zhengdong’s 2024 letter and productivity advice are some of my favorite recent pieces of internet writing.
Devon Zuegel on how to build a new town. I want to do this someday.
I’m in love with the conspiracy theory that the terra cotta warriors are fake. I don’t believe it is true, but I love going down the rabbit hole. Someone make the definitive YouTube video on this!
Disposable delivery drones are a thing.
Product / Market Experiments:“Experimentation is a skill developed via learning-by-doing, and angels have a skill advantage in that domain because of having more operational experience”. Filed under “we all experiment too little.”
Rooting for Austin Vernon.
Under the hood with Claude Code. Also, AI coding agents and IDEs ranked.
Musings
Be the person who writes things down.
Life should be much rougher.
Most of your audience never reads what you wrote. They are told about it by someone who read it. Told to me by patio11.
Some Kipling:
Ancient, effortless, ordered, cycle on cycle set,
Life so long untroubled, that ye who inherit forget
It was not made with the mountains, it is not one with the deep.
Men, not gods, devised it. Men, not gods, must keep.
How do the rhythms of work change when anyone can build a proposed product change? What software is needed to support this?
The most important skill.