I love people who explore their curiosities. Because of YouTube, such pursuits can be economically feasible today. This is indeed a net benefit to society.
Today, I saw Cleo’s video on a “journey to the center of the Earth.” Very interesting.
I always wonder how skills like programming are known only by a small fraction of technology users. This can have drastic effects on the Internet we like and love, as pointed out by Loris Cro, where the web will shrink to a handful of websites if it hasn’t happened already. We need more corners like this on the Internet.
I enjoy 3Blue1Brown videos. I wish we had cheaper Internet in India 10 years before it happened. I would have been better positioned to learn what I wanted when I genuinely had the time and curiosity. I now have a shelf full of maths textbooks, and since I will have more time shortly, I should use it to study maths for fun again.
Today, I saw a fascinating book titled “Slow Down, the degrowth manifesto.”
I didn’t want to spend time reading what I think is Marxist ideology, but the apparent impact the book had in Japan intrigued me enough to settle for a summary. Like Marxism, it sounds good on paper. But it does not matter if it doesn’t work in practice.
Ghostty looks really cool. From early reviews of the closed beta, it indeed looks sleek. I might just make the switch on day 1 of its release.