Category: 3 Threads
The Lie About Loving Your Job
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You’ve heard it, probably many times, and if you’re like me, you’re tired of hearing the platitude that if you find your passion, you’ll never work a day in your life. I like writing. I like reading and thinking, but after a bike ride, dealing with kids, and a bunch of other stuff, I’d much
March 2025 Reading Recap
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Fiction Wind and Truth This is an epic book and with everything going on in my life it took me since the release of the book in December to get through it, but it was worth the read. Here we have massive revelations to the nature of the gods of Roshar and the Cosmere along
The Problem Isn’t Reading. It’s What We Teach Boys to Value
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I’m clearly a reader and I have a house of readers, sometimes to the detriment of my kids getting ready for school on time. This video ties together some interesting points about how when a hobby or field becomes just over 50% women, men suddenly flock away from it to the point where a field
The Creativity Scam – How Capitalism Exploits Innovation
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Creativity is a constant buzzword found in job descriptions, government speeches, and is used to describe how our public institutions should work. In the book Against Creativity, Oli Mould tries to push past all the rhetoric of creativity to find out who is served by the creative juices that are supposed to be flowing. Mould
Personal Growth or Money? Not Everything Needs to be a Side Hustle
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After my treatise on email newsletters last week I was greeted by this AI slop article at the top of my RSS feed Monday morning and it got me thinking about creativity and producing some type of content. Specifically, what is the purpose of the content you’re trying to produce? Is it about money? As
Seeking Less Connectivity
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Cal Newport regularly says that we assume if a bit of something is good, more must be better. Some connectivity is good, so connectivity all the time must be better. Easy to send text messages make some communication easier, so all communication going through a text must be better. But I don’t think so and
Expertise in the Age of Infinite Information
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LLMs are not generally optimized to say “I don’t know” when they don’t have enough information – Co-Intelligence Pg 96 One of the things I’ve always valued in another person is their ability to admit when they don’t know something. It’s also one of my biggest issues with LLMs, they confidently tell you a lie
Feb 2025 Reading Recap
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This month you’ll note no fiction books were finished. That dang Brandon Sanderson guy wrote a 1300 page tome so I’ve made progress on Wind and Truth but not finished it. In fact I’ve made enough progress that it would equal 2 fiction books worth of pages read if it was a normal sized book.
