Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again ↳

Sometimes I open my copy of Richard Scarry’s classic children’s book Busy, Busy Town just to remind myself how the world ought to function. One of over 300 books Scarry published, Busy, Busy Town is about the world of work, depicting all of the animals going about their jobs. Everything is refreshingly straightforward. At the garage, “when something is wrong with the motor, the mechanic fixes it.” The painter paints the walls. “On Main Street you can buy medicine, tools, apples, and oranges.” When there is a pothole, workers from the city come and fill it.

Decided to shut down Limoncello. Mostly because I I agree with this blog post about plan mode being dead — the agents are good enough to just execute.

I still think there is an opportunity for an agentic accessible backlog of ideas though.↳

✰ Imageboop

A simple way to resize and reformat images on your Mac.

people don’t talk about this much but Apple Preview has been totally ruined and broken for the past 2-3 years. too many features that poorly work.↳

Is there a less inspiring experience than signing up to sell something on Etsy? yikes.↳

You know a frontier lab is becoming serious about robotics when one of them acquires Matic↳

Boredom is the Price We Pay for Meaning ↳

Brodsky advised his listeners to give up trying to evade the feeling, and start respecting it. Boredom exists “to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life,” he said, “the lesson of your utter insignificance.” Boredom puts us in our tiny, fragile, finite place—and thank goodness for that, for “the more finite a thing is, the more it is charged with life,” with love, pain, excitement, and fear.

Kind of obsessed with Markupdown and how useful it’s been for a complex strategy memo↳