A Year Later: Getting Kicked out of the Recurse Center| Wesley’s Notebook
Replacing the Anubis CGM Battery| Wesley’s Notebook
It’s been a while. I’ve been drinking lots of oolong tea, working hard, and getting nervous. More posts soon, I hope.| Wesley’s Notebook
2023 in Books| Wesley’s Notebook
Scattered ChatGPT thoughts| Wesley’s Notebook
2022 in Books| Wesley’s Notebook
Starwatching| Wesley’s Notebook
In Control| Wesley’s Notebook
The right combination of street signs, viewed from a artful vantage point| Wesley’s Notebook
Words, Definitions, and Prescriptivism| Wesley’s Notebook
Annotations| Wesley’s Notebook
A IndieWeb Request| Wesley’s Notebook
Interconnections| Wesley’s Notebook
Tech, Industry| Wesley’s Notebook
How Websites Die| Wesley’s Notebook
Neurodiversity| Wesley’s Notebook
On Cryptocurrency| Wesley’s Notebook
On Feeds| Wesley’s Notebook
“The” Self| Wesley’s Notebook
Reactionary| Wesley’s Notebook
History and Globalization| Wesley’s Notebook
Friendships, Online and In Person| Wesley’s Notebook
Art and Engineering| Wesley’s Notebook
Everyone loves collecting data, nobody loves analyzing it later| Wesley’s Notebook
Reading Aloud| Wesley’s Notebook
I was surprised to learn a couple months ago that the way people teach their kids how ride a bike is different than it was when I was growing up. Instead of training wheels, the modern way to do it is a “balance bike”, which is a small bike without pedals, that’s low enough to the ground that the kid can run while sitting in the seat. Then, they can lift their feet up once they get up to speed, in order to practice balancing. This is much easier than using training wheels, since it lets...| Wesley’s Notebook
IndieWeb Thoughts: POSSE| Wesley’s Notebook
Treating Depression| Wesley’s Notebook
Tragedy of the Commons| Wesley’s Notebook
Bitcoin and Gold| Wesley’s Notebook
A Few NYC Places| Wesley’s Notebook
How to Pirate Ebooks| Wesley’s Notebook
Piracy & Legal Monoculture| Wesley’s Notebook
Recent Books| Wesley’s Notebook
The Perfect Decisionmaking Structure| Wesley’s Notebook
Consciousness and Emulation| Wesley’s Notebook
Go into Brooklyn, past DeKalb Ave. Get on a Manhattan-bound Q train. I find the effect is best when you’re slightly drunk, returning home at 3am from a house party in Flatbush, but it’ll work at any time. Find a seat on the left-hand side of the train, facing towards the opposite wall of the train car. Sit back, and enjoy.| Wesley’s Notebook
Recent Life Improvements| Wesley’s Notebook
The Limits of Science| Wesley’s Notebook
Pandora’s Box and Collapse| Wesley’s Notebook
Belief| Wesley’s Notebook
I’m inclined to think that the mechanisms of distribution of information are very important, and I think figuring out ways to reward good curation is probably an important thing. Sites like Reddit, HN, Lobsters, etc have something sort of like this, with a number next to your name that goes up when you submit popular links, but this suffers a few problems: first, a number next to a name is, I think, not a sufficient reward to counteract other, more problematic incentives (you need to either...| Wesley’s Notebook
Efficiency vs. Resiliency| Wesley’s Notebook
If you, like me, have trouble focusing while you’re on a call, one thing that can help is using websites to doodle while you’re listening. This does the same thing in my brain that fidgeting usually does, but I find it more effective to be fidgeting with something on a screen, to prevent me from trying to multitask while I’m on a call. I especially like weavesilk.com for this, but I also sometimes use SuperSym, Sandspiel, Mutsuacen, and bomomo for this sort of thing.| Wesley’s Notebook
The Sameness of Social Media| Wesley’s Notebook
I think that the biggest mistake in the pedagogy of high-school geometry is how we teach the trigonometric functions (sine, cosine, etc). We tell people that these functions are about triangles, and spend a lot of time in classes finding the missing sides and angles in triangles. But they these functions aren’t about triangles at all! They’re about circles, and it just happens that triangles are about circles as well, since just about everything is about circles.This is why π appears in ...| Wesley’s Notebook
Content| Wesley’s Notebook
Friday January 1, 2021 — Taipei, Taiwan| Wesley’s Notebook
Now, whether bandwidth will fix the problem of the web being slow is not a simple question. Decompressing, parsing, and compiling Javascript is certainly a large bottleneck for many websites, and one that more bandwidth and faster connection speeds won’t fix. But in focusing on bundle sizes as a foremost consideration, I can’t help but feel that people are taking broken infrastructure for granted, without examining the root causes of that infrastructure failure (both in the United States ...| Wesley’s Notebook
Induced Demand| Wesley’s Notebook
Gender| Wesley’s Notebook
Creating Value| Wesley’s Notebook
Commodification| Wesley’s Notebook
century old eucalyptus trees| Wesley’s Notebook
Empowerment comes in many forms, but two of them that are of interest are collective empowerment and individual empowerment. Democratization, when the word is used correctly, refers to collective empowerment — allowing groups of people to make decisions together. Collective empowerment is necessarily in opposition to individual empowerment, since in exchange for having a voice in governance, we agree to listen to the voices of others. This limits our freedom, but allows us to work together....| Wesley’s Notebook
Devs| Wesley’s Notebook
Analysis, Agency, and Alienation| Wesley’s Notebook
Finding Things| Wesley’s Notebook
It’s lighter than I expected. Clearly metal, but maybe just plated? The inside is a slightly different color than the outside, but it still makes a satisfying, albeit hollow clink when I drop it on the table. Embossed onto the surface are 88 small runes — 22 columns of four characters each. The bottom is lined with teeth, filed to mesh precisely with some long-lost inverse. On top is a shiny black plastic circle, with a small clip. It’s more difficult to open than it looks, with a p...| Wesley’s Notebook
Birthdays| Wesley’s Notebook
What is “Hard Work?”| Wesley’s Notebook
Unwarranted Confidence| Wesley’s Notebook
Worlds Colliding| Wesley’s Notebook
Writing Substrates| Wesley’s Notebook
Font Licensing| Wesley’s Notebook
Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”| Wesley’s Notebook
Sharing Old Ideas| Wesley’s Notebook
The Hermit and The Magician| Wesley’s Notebook
Taiwan| Wesley’s Notebook
In order to apply, you’ll need a picture of your passport with at least 6 months remaining on it before expiration, a copy of your W-2 or other document that shows your incomeNote that your paystubs are not a valid form of proof. If you don’t have a W-2 or similar tax document showing your full income (for instance, if you were only employed for part of the year), you may be able to get by with a document from your work stating what your income is, but I haven’t heard from anyone who’...| Wesley’s Notebook
A little bit of magic for the nonbelievers| Wesley’s Notebook
Petit Bourgeois & Amazon Reselling| Wesley’s Notebook
Identity and Decentralization| Wesley’s Notebook
I’ve decided to start a notebook blog, inspired by David R. MacIver’s notebook.Which is excellent, and I highly recommend I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the places that I have available for me to write: my blog, thoughts, twitter, twitter alt, RC zulip, mailing list, and several others. With so many places to write, why make one more? But different mediums are good for different things, and I had no good medium for longform, public, nontechnical writing — so here we are. I’...| Wesley’s Notebook
Servers and Desire| Wesley’s Notebook
