device combining multiple tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitool (more)

In 1991 Momus said In the future everyone will be Famous For Fifteen People. A take-off on Andy Warhol's claim that everyone would be "famous for 15 minutes" (Celebrity) (more)

ink-and-switch frame for software that can be very-easily-customized (situated software)

Geoffrey Litt: Everyone should design software. I predict we’ll look back at the debate around "should designers code" as just an opening salvo in a much bigger wave of change. Yes, AI tools are enabling more people to code within software teams. (more)

For cooking rice, where you can set/forget, and have it last for 3+ days so it's always available. (more)

A piece of content/experience that tends to nudge one toward a subversive (non-status-quo reality hacker) mindset. https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1423311248276561934 (more)

Actor, daemon. With agency? (more)

In a step-by-step process, Marvin Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built up from the interactions of simple parts called Agents, which are themselves mindless. He describes the postulated interactions as constituting a "society of mind", hence the title... Minsky first started developing the theory with Seymour Papert in the early 1970s. Minsky said that the biggest source of ideas about the theory came from his work in trying to create a machine that uses a robotic arm, a video camera, and a computer to build with children's blocks. (more)

Attitude (more)

Mark Joyner: The Road Map of Simpleology (A to Z)... the 30,000-foot view (more)

Mike Taylor: I Achieved the Four-hour Workweek. So Why Did I Just Take a Job? (more)

Cate Hall: Writing A Book is a labor of love. *Shortly before Sasha and I signed our book contract with Harper, I had a crisis of confidence about the project. So I went around asking people who’d written books before: Should we write one? Should we work with a major publisher? Does anyone even read anymore? (more)

Liminal Warmth: Just mentally append, “… assuming any of this is true and I’m not deluding myself” to every statement I make here and we can both be happy. (model agnosticism) (more)

Ben Recht: Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions. I’ve been wanting to write a summary of the Cultural AI conference I attended at NYU last week. (more)

Jason Pargin: I was David Wong. "David Wong" was a character I'd created in the mid-90s for a series of unpublished stories and screenplays. (more)

The Best Of Category Pirates 2025. (more)

CategoryPirates: 10 AI prompts to create a powerful and compelling POV. Most founders, creators, and entrepreneurs think they have a Point of View (POV). (more)

Category Pirates: 7 steps to start writing your $100 book. Every year, millions of people say they want to write a book. Almost none of them do. (more)

Trying Claude Code Remote Control (more)

Erik Hoel: I'm a complexitarian: only eat things below a certain neural complexity... octopus (is above the bar)... But of course being a complexitarian is just a stand-in. Ideally, we'd all be unconscioustarians... but without a theory of consciousness we can't even decide what to ethically eat. (more)