ArchiveBox, a new find that looks promising – “powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline”.
I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing – their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling – their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Life is too short to be all daylight. Night is not less; it’s more.
To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
— Wendell Berry
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
We Have No Moat, And neither does OpenAI – A Google insider’s view on the rise of open source AI models and tools triggered by the leak of Meta’s LLaMA.
Never Split the Difference, (Audiobook) - 4/5. Piqued a bit by the overuse of the “blackswan” terminology towards the end but overall an interesting and practical discourse on the art of negotiation.
Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence. A study of long sentences. Beautiful.