Saturdays

The Courage to be Disliked

the predominant theory is that the length of an organism's lifespan is inverse to the rate of it's metabolism. Look into Kleiber's law. Also worth reading the book Scale by Geoffrey West.

I'm reading this book "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and it's quite fascinating to think deeply about what is Consciousness. I think the book does a good job of defining and explaining Consciousness.

Highly recommend it to think critically about the subject, but I think your point is valid, consciousness occurs for many things, and then it doesn't have to many other things. You don't need consciousness to nearly instantly detect that b comes after a sequence of {a,b,a,b,a,?}. You need consciousness to think about _why_ b comes after though. When you go for a swim and then recall the event, you most likely recall it in an objective or third person way mentally - the image or visual in your memory is that third person view.. but that's not actually how you experienced it.

I wonder how much of that applies to animals, and I wonder if we can ever get that answer.

+1 - and the mole and the chile en nogada there is fantastic. The churches are beautiful. Really neat day trip.

theoretically what's in it for them is that people will build content faster and with less barriers for eventual consumption on their platforms

That's a very weak blanket statement, there are totally reasonable A/B tests you can run that don't deteriorate a user's experience, and the results can guide you to a better customer experience overall.

I used Hugo+Git+Netlify and it worked well, however its a pain to create a custom template that I love - I'm in the process of switching to Wordpress+Elementor, just because I'm taking a more visual approach to building now and am a bit lazy with trying to manage my own design system and all that...

That being said, there's nothing wrong with Hugo or other static site generators, and they are crazy fast and mostly hands-off once you got what you need.

That deck is so well done, the way it lays things out about Foley and how he ran the business is a great teaching moment for people in any business. It does a great job of showing what red flag type statements and behavior to look out for in leaders.

Nintendo would like to have a word

Simplest answer: Demand has gone up overall for technology like tvs, computers, game consoles, etc... Meanwhile, during covid the ability to scale (production and supply chain) to meet that demand has been difficult.

apart from the obvious issues around pre-covid population and 2020 census stats being used here...

I expect a mass exodus once lease renewals are up and buildings don't want to give the same 2-3 months free incentives.

This comes from something I've noticed in NYC these past several months. In the winter and up until mid-April, most rental buildings were providing huge incentives (2-3 months off on a 12 month lease) for people to occupy their buildings. What's interesting is that most of the new people I'm meeting in the city ONLY moved to NYC because the city 're-opened' and rent is affordable w/incentives from certain perspectives.

Those who have been living in NYC took advantage of incentives to move into nicer/larger spaces - but this is often unaffordable to them once the lease renewals are up.

For some perspective, a $5,000/month place with 3 months off, is a net effective rent of $3,750/month. I've seen this go at some upscale buildings. A personal friend of mine can afford this at the $3,750/month rate, but not at any rate above that. If they gave a 1 month free incentive upon renewal, his net effective rent would be $4,580/month.

That's one example, but it goes for $3,500/month 1 bedroom in some areas - with 2 months off that's ~$2900/month.

So it really depends, but I hear from a lot of new people I meet that they are here for the year and got a great deal on a place - they wanted to experience the city for a year, and this seemed like an affordable time and way to do it (since they can work from home)

I think if you use BetterTouchTools and modify your Touch Bar for custom needs (I use the GoldenChaos presets) - it can prove to be somewhat useful, and save screen real estate on certain things too. So I'm not 100% against it, but I understand the appeal of having physical keys.

I think most readers would scoff at those price points, especially when comparing to the plethora of content available from streaming services such as Netflix, which is at $8-9/month for individual use.

That being said, is there a model for a group of authors/publishers that is $8-9/month for a growing large selection novels (a la Netflix catalog)? If there is, it probably won't 'solve' any of the issues the article and others are bringing up here.

Oooh this looks interesting.. I export my GoodReads data and play with it on a spreadsheet to learn more about my reading trends.