Category: 🧩 Miscellanea
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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
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Graham Isador, Men are Lonely, So Why is it so Hard For Them to Make Friends
When trying to meet new people, one of the best ways to succeed is a sustained effort and participating in tasks you are already drawn towards. … If I were giving advice to a young guy, I’d say find the thing that you can see yourself really enjoying regardless of the outcome. Then do these…
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Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks
It follows from all this then, that spending at least some of your leisure time “wastefully”, focused solely on the pleasure of the experience, is the only way not to waste it – to truly be at leisure, rather than covertly engaged in future-focused self improvement. In order to fully inhabit the only life you…