Basement Files 75
Looking
Reading
Learning By Writing
An outline of how I form detailed opinions on topics: by exploring hypotheses and writing about them, not by undirected reading.
Holden Karnofsky
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
Henrik Karlsson
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothet…
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely…
Quotes
the public opposes, but does not propose.” Demolishing ideas is easy in a subreddit; crafting new ones there is mostly beside the point.
When cyanobacteria first appeared, the oxygen they breathed out was toxic to nearly all other forms of life. The resulting extinction is called the oxygen catastrophe.
"Enemies always understand each other better than friends."
Using
Bear
Bear is a beautiful, powerfully simple Markdown note taking app to capture, write, and organize your life.
Another week, another note taking app
Listening
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