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This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps a bit raw. That feels like a good place to start, because my main objective this year is to be an “attention router”, brisk and functional, connecting you to some worthwhile inventions and provocations. And, with luck, contributing a few myself.
Attention Router
Robin Sloan
But here is his best line:
> Taleb had been busy. He had already published two papers since the new year, on statistical concepts that I asked him to explain to me as if I was five years old, to which he said, “you’re not five years old.”
She’s not! That’s the goal, isn’t it? Say smart things about complicated topics in a way that your audience can understand and appreciate, *without treating them like children.*
Money Stuff: SVB’s Depositors Weren’t Very Loyal
Matt Levine
It makes no difference whether it lasts a long time or whether it lasts a short time.
A galaxy goes together with all the universe just as much as a mosquito. You can get a certain vision of life where everything is seen to be a complex pattern of rhythm dances the human dance the flower dance the bee dance the giraffe dance.
And that's what this all is, it's jazz. You see? This is a big jazz, this world. And what it's trying to do is to see how jazzed up it can get. How far out this play of rhythm can go.
Everything | Gameplay Film
David OReilly
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