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Ideas I'm mulling over, that may one day grow into full posts:

• For every read of a piece of nonfiction, if you get 3 Big Ideas out of it, that you can relate to your friends, it's a success. in fact, should probably update website to reflect this :)
• Pottery as meditation
• Just Don't Die as a concept seems important across fields --evolution, investing (it seems to be a common theme in all the books Charlie Munger recommends), real-estate (location location location), etc.
• What is special about Toronto
• You can just make stuff: my wife and I made rings for each other, designed based on what we think the other would enjoy. My wife's spirit animal is a turtle, so the pattern on her ring is tortoise-shell. I like the ocean and the mountains, so my ring has a wave and mountain ridge pattern. Making each other rings was fun, and significantly more meaningful than just buying jewelry at a store. And it seems plain that this principle can be extended further: if you want something made, you can most likely just make it
• List of crafts to do on dates, ranked
• email as an interface to back-office work
• if an LLM can already do it perfectly, is it worth doing? related to the Karpathy post about him trying to build a training repo from scratch, and trying to get Claude to help build, and Claude just continuously trying to import pytorch FSDP.
• Things that compound (skills, relationships, knowledge, company abilities, trees)
• Micro-PMF --inspired by micro-morts and micro-marriages