Category: 🧩 Miscellanea
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Don Hertzfeldt on Hunting vs Being Fed
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn’t the point. The point was to get out and feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m…
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Remembrance Day in Bankhead
Today I took Dima to see Banff’s ghost town: Bankhead. Through some odd coincidence, we arrived just as a Remembrance Day ceremony was starting at a nearby monument to the residents of Bankhead who lost their lives in war. It made for a surreal experience, walking through the foundations of old buildings, in the middle…
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Infill Housing Analysis Idea
Multi-unit infill housing is becoming very popular for developers in Calgary, but are the prices of the new individual units more or less affordable than the former residence which was bulldozed? Idea: Analyze the pre-teardown sale price and post-construction sales prices to determine if infill housing is driving inflation of prices at a housing-unit level.
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Thoughts on AI Agents
There’s talk of having AI agents which are trained on one’s own work to assist with tasks. The interesting question is who would have ownership and control of these models, the worker or the employer. Imagine a world where your current and former employers maintain models of you in perpetuity after you leave positions, and…
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Søren Kierkegaard on Walking
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Søren Kierkegaard
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Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe
See, that right there is what it’s all about. Laboring in obscurity. Starving and struggling. The man who embraces his mediocre nothingness shines brighter than any. Keanu Reeves, Always Be My Maybe
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G.K. Chesterton on Adventure
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. G.K. Chesterton
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Jude Doyle, This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline
Del Rey’s best love songs are not obsessive or submissive, they are addictive. They are about craving something when you know it will kill you. Jude Doyle, This is What Makes Us Girls: On the Lana-Del-Rey-to-Red-Scare Pipeline
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Peter Van Der Merwe, Drones
Of all harmonic devices, it [a drone] is not only the simplest, but probably also the most fertile. Peter Van Der Merwe