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There’s an old concept, I can’t remember where it’s stems from, but it’s essentially:

A fulfilling life is the life of someone who voluntarily regains what it was that they lost in childhood, with the experience and insight that comes with time.

Easier said than done of course

I see what you’re saying but I also think that recreating is a way to exercise the creative muscle as well.

At least in my own experience I feel like I also hardly have any original ideas, but the more I learn about, mimic, and study the creations of others, the more i find ways to integrate those creations into my own. Unless you’re God, I’d argue that almost nothing is brought to creation in a vacuum, even your creative friends are probably creating based on drawn inspiration from countless sources that they studied or recreated themselves for who knows how long.

It’s work, but it’s fulfilling work, in my opinion, to mimic and recreate until one day you take a step back and realize that what you just created is uniquely yours, even if you can point to the many aspects of it that were borrowed from others.

My number one goal for 2026 was to focus on reigniting creativity in my life.

Creativity, like many other aspects of a persons life, seems to be more like a muscle than an inherent skill.

The main area of focus for my creativity was drawing. I had all of these ideas for products and concepts that lived in my mind alone, so I started to work on drawing from an industrial design perspective to get these ideas an prototypes on paper, and as I began to get better at realizing my ideas I began to write about them, and as they amassed I decided to start learning CAD software to be able to play with those ideas in an interactive way.

This eventually led to getting into 3D printing - mind you, this has all happened only over the course of 6 months. But now I am able to take an idea, put it to paper, build it using basic modeling, and print a physical version of that idea that I can hold in my hands all over the course of 1 to 2 days.

It’s been an extremely fulfilling journey and I am trying to extend it to other parts of my life, but one thing this article got right was that treating it like an experiment and setting goals and hypothesis and fulfilling them is the true joy of the creative process.

Wonderful article!

Not to mention the closing paragraph of the article essentially says the same thing 8 times - for such a well written paper the closing paragraph was a real disappointment in my eyes. Overall though, good write up.

Benn Jordan just released a new video proposing that we are not in “late stage capitalism” and instead we are currently an offshoot of capitalism called “leverageism”.

In the video he describes how when people like Elon Musk get to the level of wealth that they are at, it becomes far more beneficial for them to take from (or stunt) the spending power of lower classes than it is to add to their own net worth dollar figure - simply put, the former moves the needle far more in their favor than the latter.

Definitely explained the idea of our slice remaining the same while the overall pie around us is getting larger.

*Edit: Benn not Ben

Interested in whether these bridge brawls were isolated to just Venice, maybe tanners and butchers had it out on all checks notes 3 of Florence’s main bridges

Jacob Geller has a fantastic video essay (and written essay with annotations) on this topic, I suggest checking it out.

I agree, but I think two factors are at play here:

1) Valve is not in desperate need for capital, Steam and their older games are money printing machines therefore they don’t feel the need to release new games all the time. This is a pro and a con, they don’t feel the need to release same-y, barely iterative titles to make ends meet which means the overall quality of the games we do get is much higher. But at the same time it’s no telling when Valve just decides the juice isn’t worth the squeeze anymore.

2) the games that Valve do release are always a standard deviation above the other games of that similar genre at the time. Their ability to take a mechanic, or an engine, or a combination of the two and meaningfully expand and revolutionize in that space cannot be understated - and as game technology progresses, making similar impacts at that scale takes longer and is much harder than the previous title. Half Life Alyx was such a quantum leap in VR quality and I don’t think it’s talked about enough. Deadlock takes the MOBA genre to a whole new level in terms of gameplay depth and complexity. I think they’re taking their time with titles and they know the predecessors that came before them.

For that, I’m willing to wait.

Still unbelievable that they require a DUNS number and not a simple EIN, that fact alone set our app launch back weeks.

God I feel you here, that first review is always brutal.

Moving from Iowa City to Kansas City I can say that free public transit works quite well. In Iowa City the campus bus system (Cambus) has all of its busses operated by students who go out and get their CDL and get great job experience, on top of it being one of the highest paid campus jobs for students.

Kansas City’s street car system is an incredible testament to this as well. It’s clean, safe, and for the most part quite efficient. And with its recent extension down to UMKC’s campus it’s now a viable transportation method for a lot of people in the heart of Kansas City. Keeping it clean and safe after more than doubling the size of its route might be a bigger lift now, but as long as the city sticks with it post-World Cup I see it continuing to grow.

Between Green Lady Lounge, the Black Dolphin, the Phoenix, and a couple of cool spots on 18th and Vine, Kansas City’s jazz nightlife is becoming increasingly popular again among younger crowds. KC also just finished extending their street car system down past the Plaza to UMKC’s campus as well, mostly in preparation for hosting the World Cup.

I moved from Iowa City to Kansas City after college so I have been spoiled with public transit.

I was too young when it came out to actually get one, but I remember that red glowing eye, I actually ripped an ad out of a magazine for the original droid and hung it in my room because it looked so badass.

I remember being disappointed to see Android go the cute cuddly green robot route instead of the sick red droid look but overall it was definitely more palatable for the masses.

From my understanding, guilt by association is quite valid legally when it comes to Tor exit nodes, due to the fact that other people’s traffic appears as your traffic.

It may not literally be guilt by association, but they’re two parts of the same whole in this case, right or wrong.

Appcolypse plan: Ammo? Canned food? Fresh water? No.

1,200 geek bars in a faraday cage.

Would be curious how Brave handles fingerprinting, I’ll have to look into that.

I’ve always heard it generally used as a synonym with dilute - generally speaking with drugs, cut often means incorporating any less expensive (not easily detectable) substance in with the original substance.

More times than not it will not be stronger, it will be compounds that are not psychoactive at all, effectively “cutting” the potency of the substance while multiplying the quantity.

There are cases with fentanyl where a stronger substance is mixed in with the original and this often is what you read about in the news, but it is not in generally in the distributors best interest to be killing their clientele.

Puff is not a slur, puff science indicates that it’s vaporous or there is no basis or grounds.

Poof on the other hand, could be taken as a slur, sure.

Let’s relax.

Actually if we’re keeping with the pattern it would be Shis

Coming from a place of complete ignorance, are there indicators in galaxies that determine a top/bottom for lack of better words?

I can’t think of any that would make much sense as top/bottom would mean that there needs to be a relative universal point to reference and as far as I know, that doesn’t exist.

I agree.

But does the process of institutionalizing those teachings not go against those exact teachings themselves? At least for Christianity?

The point of the Grand Inquisitor chapter revolves around a fictional situation where Jesus returned to Earth during the inquisition, and posits the idea that Jesus was exactly the type of individual that the church would have been willing to purge during that time, criticizing the institution and the free will that is exchanged for structure and institution.

I always find myself referencing the Grand Inquisitor chapter from the Brothers Karamazov.

Does institutionalization always breed corruption? If it can breed corruption in the teachings of God then it can breed corruption anywhere.

Yup, I was never much of a soda drinker but switching from coffee to loose leaf teas has been a huge move for me in my daily habits. I used to drink coffee until 3, 4, even 5pm and it was having negative effects on my health and sleep.

Now I just start the day with a mug of loose leaf tea and keep re-steeping it as the day goes on. By the time noon comes around there is little to no caffeine left but I still get some tea flavor as well as the hit of hot liquid my body is used to.

When at home I brew gong fu style which keeps more caffeine as I reload the gaiwan or tea pot but that’s just a preference of mine. Highly recommend Chinese/Taiwanese teas, especially Oolong if you’re looking for an alternative to coffee or soda.

Highly recommend House of Huawei by Eva Dou, I didn’t know much about the history or background of this monolithic and demonized company so I picked it up and I have to say I found it fascinating.

If you’re interested in recent history or telecommunication development over the last 50 years it’s a great read. It’s not a technical deep dive nor a political hit piece, the author wrote for the Washington Post and it really reads like a long and in-depth article. Which is actually nice despite sometimes leaving me wanting for more, definitely made it a quick read.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721789/house-of-hua...

Edit: Washington Post, not New York Times

Fair

Lax is relative.

Well, there are also countries like Switzerland where there is a substantially higher amount of gun ownership compared to that of the rest of Europe but very few of the same issues of other countries with similar ownership per capita. Though, that’s probably due to the required service training and the screenings that come along with it. And it being a relatively small country.

Did you outgrow the vase 500 searches that Cursor gives you per month and connect your API key for usage based pricing?

I’m having a hard time coming close to the 500 included in the monthly subscription and I use it like, a lot.

Just curious how you’re hitting that 200-300 mark unless you’re talking about paying Anthropic outside of cursor. Which I just now realized is probably the case.

Not an expert, but from my own research muscle will always atrophy to its functionally base necessary mass, there are of course genetics involved in muscle mass retention as well that can’t be overlooked. But you can be in a caloric deficit and your body is burning fat(which often times this leads to lower energy and less intense resistance training) while still losing muscle mass. I don’t believe they’re mutually exclusive.

You’re 100% right though, the key to retaining muscle mass while in a caloric deficit is consuming sufficient protein, or even over-consuming protein. In starvation situations muscle is next up after fat when getting consumed for energy but it seems like for the most part the muscle mass deterioration during significant weight loss periods is a natural side effect of the process and lifestyle required to accomplish it.

Bless you, appreciate the sauce.