Highlight of the week: I chipped my front tooth (3rd time in 5 years)

Best Ways to Build Better Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear - Huberman Lab

  • How to form good habits and break bad ones.
  • Standard advice that sounds familiar but is solid:
    • Good habits: Make it obvious, attractive, easy, satisfying
    • Bad habits: Make it invisible, unattractive, difficult, unsatisfying
  • Personally, I wanted to break the habit of mindlessly checking LINE News, but I couldn’t delete the LINE app itself. Inspired by this podcast, I looked it up and found this method to hide just the News tab. (Game changer!)

Tweet from Andrej Karpathy

Agreed point 1: Don’t “of course” me

They will implement an inefficient, bloated, brittle construction over 1000 lines of code and it’s up to you to be like “umm couldn’t you just do this instead?” and they will be like “of course!” and immediately cut it down to 100 lines.

There’s a certain crowd that gets hyped every time a new model drops, but honestly, it feels like this dynamic hasn’t changed much. (Ref: My post from 6 months ago)

Agreed point 2: It’s “expansion”, not just “speedup”

Speedups. It’s not clear how to measure the “speedup” of LLM assistance. Certainly I feel net way faster at what I was going to do, but the main effect is that I do a lot more than I was going to do because 1) I can code up all kinds of things that just wouldn’t have been worth coding before and 2) I can approach code that I couldn’t work on before because of knowledge/skill issue. So certainly it’s speedup, but it’s possibly a lot more an expansion.

It must be tough working under a manager who doesn’t share this intuition.

Riaru Ito’s Insane Wipeout

  • The mental strength to pull off a super stylish tube ride (scored 9 points) right after this wipeout is incredible.
  • I’m glad it was his surfboard that snapped in two, not his front teeth.