Finished What Comes Before Mindfulness? by Ajahn Sona 📚
This book ended on such a high note that I am biased and putting it at 5 stars. I read it over a very long time—it was my “late night can’t get to sleep” book — but as soon as finishing I thought “I can’t wait to read this again.”
Finished Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚
Solid intro. Shoulda read this when it first came out. Probably woulda given it more stars. It is very short, and touches on a lot of very deep issues, which is useful for the complete novice, but will be unsatisfying for anyone looking for real answers.
Keynoting Day 2 of #Fediforum is Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop | @dustyweb.bsky.social) talking about what Bsky and AP can learn from one another. “But 2010s-style social media is no longer enough!” She gives us an update on Spritely and OCapN and what the future could look like.
Now for Cory Doctorow at #fediforum 🤩
Currently listening to Ian Forrester @cubicgarden@mas.to at #FediForum. Next up is Cory Doctorow. Lots of exciting guests and so many friends! Will be popping in an out of the conference for the next three days.
The villain in the original Tron is called Master Control Program. MCP.
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Started reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚
Posted a couple of things from attending #Websummit this year
Greatest newsletter confirmation screen of all time. ☕️ 🥊 From enjoylunacoffee.com
New kit! Mac Studio M4 Max with 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 1TB HDD and 128GB of RAM. 🏎
Happy to be in this packed room with Dr Cornell West and Ramesh Srinivasan taking questions from the crowd #websummit
It’s #websummit time here in Vancouver!
Oh wow! I really hope they do a good job on this! 🎬
Everyone was piling into the new Mission:Impossible 🎬 but me and my nerd family were learning from our grampa about the absolute carnage of bottom trawling. Here’s to them making it illegal at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference 🪸🐠🦀🐙🐋🦈🐬🦭
“Dad I had a dream … I had a pet octopus … but it was constipated … but I knew to push these pressure points … and then everything was okay”
Met this tree on my walk tonight 🌲 This dude has seen a lot.
Beautiful clear, warm day. Everyone was out so I was gonna write. But just could not find the motivation. Do I do this? Or that? One of those days where I could just not pick a direction and just stewed in unproductive unsatisfactoriness. Decided to meditate. It’s okay to have days like this.
Use GitHub Actions? Use github.com/zizmorcor…
Learn about a new massive data set for tracking open source, and how it helps fund #opensource projects not merely based on popularity, but on their criticality to the ecosystem as a whole. From @sustainoss@hachyderm.io | @sustainoss.bsky.social podcast.sustainoss.org/270
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Deep Work is Cal Newport’s highest selling book. He published it in early 2016 and it made waves at the time since he strongly argues against social media. Cal is infamously not on social media (unless you count blogging and podcasting 😜) so it is a little ironic that the reason I finally decided to pick up this book was due to a post I saw on social media. Although the book explores quite a few topics, to sum it up from my perspective, he introduces a term well known in software circles to a more general audience: context switching.