On the Edge #14:
Hi there, it’s been half a year since my last post here. In the past two months in Iran, every bit of suppressed and disregarded anger from past social protests has surfaced and still goes on. Violations of human rights and cutting off the Internet accelerated protests globally. In these hard days for my people, it’s hard to focus, but I decided to write another On the Edge post.
In the past couple of months, I’ve written many drafts, but taking care of Eveince did not leave me enough time to continue the momentum, especially in the previous structure. So I decided to change the form in the hope of keeping writing. As before, I will share links and bits but will cross off rather long discussions and the Persian podcast.
Noah Smith has depicted a comprehensive view of the bipolar trade scene here. It’s a “loose guess” but his analysis is a well-thought input if you think about macro events:
I was looking into how some talents develop their career and found this article about Stephen Curry from 2015. He still goes on strong.
With Elon Musk’s taking over Twitter, some changes don’t seem very liberal, but they are not necessarily wrong. Like removing a great team led by Rumman Chowdhury, addressing model biases and ethical harms. Or some other hard measures like ending remote work. Concerns continue with examples of how Twitter fought privacy before but now those efforts might be in danger:
On the side, Mastodon, a smaller community-owned social media, has grown thanks to people who left Twitter and I’m more inclined toward Tyler Cowen’s tweet that they “will be replaced”.
It can be seen that he’s looking to build a solution to verify the genuinity of users. That was my drive to create “iam”. This is a precise operation and it can easily make Twitter boring, as Stephen King already feels:
Compare the VC industry in the US with the rest of the world!
Interesting points in the interview with Adam Tooze about the current economy, interest rates and recession.
Lately, I have been thinking a little about Alzheimer's disease. Found this article very comprehensive and straightforward enough by José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente, author of Nintil.
Good review of 16 years of Marginalian and life lessons. I have known this team for eight years now, and after reading this article, I headed back to the first article I read from them, and instantly I started to follow them.
Soothing game of riding a car /bike in nature: Slowroads
Fujimoto’s Five Books are now Public Domain. It’s about origami :)
3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
Interactive and playful post about how sound works by Bartosz Ciechanowski
Look at the beautiful Neptune.
And the smiling sun
Three documentaries about design from Gary Hustwit :
Helvetica is a documentary about font design
Objectified is a documentary about industrial design and the people behind it
Urbanized is a documentary about urban design