Brian Greene
Brian Greene’s Until the End of Time is ambitious in scope. It’s an attempt to tell the story of everything – from the Big Bang to the ultimate fate of consciousness. Almost like a biography of the universe through the lens of the species which is (in our understanding) the first to ask why and how it all happened – how physics, chemistry and biology led to matter, mind and meaning. And how all that will dissolve back in time.
(more…)Y’all can say whatever but vibe coding is getting into the dictionary along with Looksmaxxing.
On World Coding day, I promptly used AI to make a product pack inspired by the pain relief med Vicodin.
Here’s to Vibecodin – for the temporary relief from not knowing how to code.
Nusa was all over our feeds for a brief while when it launched. Then it ratings crashed and finally some level of sanity prevailed after a few months. At which point, we decided to brave the Varthur traffic and make our way to the outskirts of our burb.
Nusa does have the ‘dirty pond’ style that is now a diktat for all breweries, but is one of the more elegant ones. There are plenty of different seating options, and they have live music events happening quite a bit.
Judging by the waiting crowds we see when we exit, it’s probably a good idea to reserve.
Richard G. Wilkinson, Kate E. Pickett
The Spirit Level (2009) has been on my list for so long that it got relegated to unread. I didn’t want to repeat that mistake with The Inner Level, so I bought it as soon as it came up on my radar. 8 years after it was published, but hey! The authors provide a quick get-to-speed about the former whose core idea was that people in societies with bigger income gaps are more likely to suffer from a wide range of health and social problems. Not just the poor, mind you, but a vast majority of the population.
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This is one of my favourite t-shirts. It is based on Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”. Set in the 1800s, it’s Bartleby’s response to the world, and has a tragic ending. I have to admit, I bought it intuitively because of a mindset, before I went around figuring out the origin story.
What mindset? I am hardly the first person in middle age to come to the realisation that one should spend more time on things that actually matter to one’s life, rather than what the world dictates. That is, of course, easier said than done. But that, I think, is also how one loses character.
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