Ephemera

I’m making an effort to mindfully consume content and play around with ideas rather than mindlessly consume. This is a place to record my summaries and reflections on the books, lectures, movies, papers, blog posts, and general content that I am consuming. I make no promises that these will be useful to anyone.

Advent of Code Day 2

I solved the second day of Advent of Code

Advent of Code Day 1

I solved the first day of Advent of Code

Advent of Code 2025 (GenAI edition)

I’m replacing the joy of Advent of Code with GenAI (sorta)

Causal Inference Tiers

Cal Newport provides a fun example of causal inference in the wild

What is Intelligence

Last night we went to a Long Now Talk “What is Intelligence”

Pursuit

I participated in a month-long scavenger hunt in SF.

Neal Stephenson On AI

I read Neal Stephenson’s latest post

AI Slop

I watched a Youtube video identifying AI slop

Learning about tradeoffs from historical AB tests

I attended a talk by Nathan Kallus

Uptime

I’m a bit of a sucker for productivity advice.