UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ (more)

Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century by Kevin Carson, 2021 (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

Real Estate Investing for Dummies by Eric Tyson (Author), Robert S. Griswold (Author) (more)

Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man" or "wise man") are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the only extant species of the genus Homo. They are great apes characterized by hairlessness, obligate bipedality, manual dexterity with opposable thumbs, precision grip, and high intelligence.[1] Humans have large brains compared to body size (a high encephalization quotient), enabling more advanced cognitive skills that facilitate successful adaptation to varied environments, development of sophisticated tools, and formation of complex social structures and civilizations.[2] Humans possess a disproportionately larger volume of both cerebral white matter and gray matter present in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) than any other primate species, which facilitated the expansion of higher-order executive functions.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

The sapient paradox is a question that can be formulated as "why there was such a long gap between emergence of genetically and anatomically modern humans and the development of complex behaviors?" Homo sapiens emerged as a species somewhere between 60,000 and 100,000 (or even 200,000) years ago, but the behaviour that is associated with modern humans began to emerge and accelerate only 10,000 years ago. The question was first formulated by archaeologist Colin Renfrew in 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapient_paradox

Jason Smith on Polycrisis, complex systems and trust. Daniel Drezner mentioned complex systems in his article on “polycrisis” so that makes it relevant for me to talk about — after all, the raison d'être of information equilibrium is to provide tractable ways to take on complex systems. (more)

see Dunbar number

Erik Hoel: Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything. ON ROUSSEAU, ESSAY CONTESTS, POLITICAL MOTIVATIONS FOR REVISITING THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION, AND THE BOOK IS INTRODUCED (more)

Steven Johnson: The Books That Defined My 2021. These are not necessarily the best books I read in 2021, and many of them didn’t actually get published in 2021, but they are the books that I spent the most time thinking about over the past year. (more)

see vibe coding

Steve Yegge: Stevey’s Birthday Blog. My birthday’s coming up, Jan 20th. Fifty-seven. I’m not sure what I thought I’d be doing right now, 30 years ago. But I wouldn’t have guessed being in the best physical shape of my life, cranking out thousands of lines of production code per day, chatting all day with brilliant friends all around the world, and generally having an absolute blast. (more)

From Beads to Tasks: Anthropic Productizes Agent Memory. An Anthropic engineer tweeted about the new task system in Claude Code v2.1.16: "We took inspiration from projects like Beads by Steve Yegge." — Antoine Brugeat, Anthropic (more)

Steve Yegge: The Beads Revolution: How I Built The TODO System That AI Agents Actually Want to Use. (more)

Jeffrey Emanuel: I'm a huge fan of Steve Yegge's great beads project, which is a task management system for use by coding AI agents. In fact, I probably type or paste the string "beads" 500+ times a day nowadays across all my coding agent sessions. (more)

the claude interface/layer that's intended especially for coding, though it doesn't have to be limited to that; among other things, it has the benefit of being able to work with your local files (though it also interacts with your github). (more)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle - Remote Controlled plane, drone, UAS (more)

John Michael Greer provides a five-part fictional scenario for the Collapse of America at the hands of China. (more)

Self Improvement via Stress Reduction? (more)

Cate Hall: Crossing the cringe minefield. Say you want to improve your life - to become happier, more helpful to others, more desirable, whatever you want. Given that this is a big world, with many possibilities, there are lots of strategies for self-improvement available to you. Which strategies will you pick first? (more)