Weekly Link Out Loud (LOL) - W21 • 2025

Starting a new series of posts titled - Weekly Link Out Loud - LOLs - links to posts I read and took notes on from May 25 - May 31 2025

• AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships: This is a great example of how the quest to understand ourselves with things like this is paved with nonsense. And it's so easy and appealing to go down a wrong path Something to be mindful and skeptical about.
• Don't Chop Up Your Apple Trees to Make Barrels for Your Apples: On TBC CEO's notes that web pages won't be the primary interface for a browser...
• How To Know What To Do: A guide on how to plan your life
• OpenAI has an unsubtle communications strategy.: The load-bearing relationships between futurity-vibes and finance
• Screen Names, BBM, and MP3s The Oral History of Millennial Tech: By the turn of the century, millennials found themselves as test dummies on the cutting edge of technology. Chat rooms! Music in your pocket! Tamagotchis! It all sounds pretty quaint now …
• The Anxiety-Curiosity Switch • Ness Labs: The anxiety-curiosity switch is the process of redirecting the mental energy that causes creative paralysis into curiosity-driven exploration. It's particularly useful as anxiety and curiosity are reframes of very similar brain patterns. Doing this can often be the difference between creation and a slam of the metaphorical book.
• The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated: When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
• Who You Are is Not What You Do: Rather than drastic, very difficult changes, get hobbies a little at a time, make friends a little at a time. Ultimately, it’s similar to diversifying a financial portfolio. You have to diversify your life. Diversify yourself
• Why I’m meditating 300 hours: This is an interesting follow. They've already achieved close to 100-150 hours and that's might impressive. While I've mulled about meditation, I am continuing journaling.