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So much of education is teaching people context.  That is why it is hard, and also why it often does not seem like real learning. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/02/context-is-that-which-is-scarce-2.html

“I don’t think we ultimately know who we really are all the time. The task for all these different things, whether it’s acting, music, painting, ceramics, the main task is getting out of the way, letting the thing come through you. And it can be frightening sometimes. But sometimes it just has its way with…

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t – whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi,” Thompson wrote. — Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/maga-america-suburban-donald-trump

In that particular frame, after potting that last red, how did O’Sullivan know that the cue ball would come back down the table that way and land precisely where he wanted it? Of course it was only obeying the laws of physics. But if you wanted to calculate the trajectory of a cue ball coming…

Hyperlinked chunks of text superimpose themselves on each other as you dig deeper into the essay — Read on thehtml.review/04/new-legibility/

Literature that can only exist on the internet — Read on thehtml.review/04/

I think there should be a little bit of uneasiness in everything, because I do think we’re all really in a sense living on the edge. So much of life is inexplicable. Inexplicable things happen to me; things that are so inexplicable that I’m not even sure that something happened. And you suddenly think, ‘Well,…

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. — Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)

Build a semantic index (SI), and allow apps to access it via permissions given similar to what we do for Address Book or Photos. Maybe even make the permissions to the SI a bit more fine-grained than you normally would for other personal databases. Historical GPS locations? Scraping contents of the screen over time? Indexed…

GTFS is a popular CSV-based format for sharing transit schedules – here’s an official list of available feed directories. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/opentimes/