Good tokens 2025-10-10
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Worth your time
The Resonant Computing Manifesto. See if you see anyone you know 😉.
The universe as an evolving organism. I have no idea whether or not this is true, but I really enjoy this style of conversation about black holes and space and what we know and what we don’t. There should be more of this.
Frequency reduces difficulty. Via Mark Larson.
What happened to .400 hitters?
“You have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.” Not just founders, product managers too.
Things I learned
Monarch butterflies produce a “super generation” that live 8x as long as the other generations to allow them to complete their migratory cycle. Again, via Secrets of the Forest, which has to be the children’s book of the year in the Dillard household. It’s beginning to rival the Kroger App for introducing me to delightful facts. And I don’t say that lightly!
If anyone knows the author, send her my compliments.
Brand Mascots are actually persuasive to children.
This is how the Canadian Supreme Court dresses. And even worse, they’re changing it. Why, Canada, why?
Musings
"Life is 10 per cent what you make it, and 90 per cent how you take it" ―Irving Berlin. Sometimes I think the quotes at the end of The Browser are aimed directly at me. I promise you my kids will grow up with this one memorized.
A little bit of SSP
I was on the Demystifying Cosmetics Podcast talking about what I learned making high performance biomaterials from kelp.
If that’s not enough, we’re doing a live show of --dangerously-skip-permissions on Friday (today) at 2 pm ET. Come and hang out.
(I have to be the only person putting out a podcast on beauty ingredients and coding with AI the same week)
LLM corner
Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
Mike Judge on the lack of AI software productivity in the data and a response.