2025 1

O3 Is Now My Personalized Learning Coach

I use Deep Research to explore topics. For example: Text To Speech Engines. Tortoise TTS leads the open source TTS. Open-Source HTTP Servers. Caddy wins. Public API-Based Data Storage Options. Supabase wins. etc. But these reports are very long. With O3 and O4 Mini supporting thinking with search, we can do quick research, instead of deep research. One minute, not ten. One page, not ten. ...

2024 1

Hobbes on a calculator

I just learned that any word made of just these letters beighlosz can be spelt on a calculator. That includes Hobbes! 538804 upside-down looks like this: I’m surprised I never knew that. The longest, by far, appears to be hillbillies – 53177187714

2021 2

Questions

Ask Better Questions Questions are powerful when you are curious. Questions are to discover. Not to influence. The older I get, the more time I spend—as a percentage of each day—on crafting better questions. In my experience, going from 1x to 10x, from 10x to 100x, and from 100x to (when Lady Luck really smiles) 1000x returns in various areas has been a product of better questions. – Tim Ferriss. Tribe of Mentors ...

Contronyms

Contronyms are words that have two meanings that are the opposite of each other. Sanction, for example, may mean restricting something (e.g. sanction against imports) or approving something (e.g. sanctioning imports). Scan may mean to look at cursorily (e.g. scan a document) or look at in detail (e.g. scan an X-Ray) Fine may mean excellent (e.g. fine wine) or average (e.g. the wine’s fine). I enjoyed this list of 75 contronyms.