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A Year of Mornings
A collection of fifty love poems that follows a young heart as it finds love, finds the strength to be in love and finally, finds the strength to let go.
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I am a platform engineer and a writer based in Finland.
I am the author of A Year of Mornings, a collection of poems for young adults.
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I absolutely loved listening to Elif on the How I write podcast. Maybe David should have more female writers on the podcast.
It was riveting. They talked about writing of course, and censorship and nature - there was this beautiful anecdote of nature being pregnant in April. It made me emotional for some reason. I loved it.
2025 LLM Year in Review by Andrej Karpathy
LLMs are emerging as a new kind of intelligence, simultaneously a lot smarter than I expected and a lot dumber than I expected. In any case they are extremely useful and I don't think the industry has realized anywhere near 10% of their potential even at present capability. Meanwhile, there are so many ideas to try and conceptually the field feels wide open.
A nice read, if a little longer. Perhaps the reason why I had not gotten to it yet.
Why is the Internet Becoming TV? - Cal Newport
Once we realize that these companies’ apps are essentially glorified TV, we should feel more comfortable ignoring them. There was a time when platforms like Facebook and Twitter wanted to convince you that they were part of a new social fabric; a fundamental technology that responsible citizens couldn’t ignore. Not any more. If they’re just TV, then we can respond the way we always have: by simply turning off the proverbial set.
On Paperbacks and TikTok - Cal Newport
Here we find a parallel to our current moment. As the platforms of the digital attention economy transition from social network models to providing maximally distracting short-form videos, more of the content available online is devolving toward that paragon of low-quality forgettability, commonly referred to as slop. Who will listen to a podcast or read a long essay, many now fret, when Sora can offer countless videos of historical figures dancing and X can deliver an endless sequence of nudity and bar fights?
If we return to the paperback example, however, we might find a small sliver of hope. Ultimately, the explosion of these cheaper, often lower-quality books didn’t lead to the elimination of more serious titles. In fact, the opposite happened. Vastly more hardcover titles are published today than they were before the Pocket Books revolution began.
A nice little history lesson here on paperbacks.
Understanding carriage by Seth Godin
Carriage is the term for the method that books, movies, TV shows and other media get from the producers to the public. It’s about who controls user access to the medium.
TIL. I did not know this word - not in this context at least.
