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Continue reading →: Connection?List the people you admire and look to for advice… Admiration and advice are not the same thing, and I think most people conflate them. The people I admire are mostly dead. Einstein, Feynman, Tesla, Sagan, Taleb if we’re counting the living. What they share isn’t genius, it’s a refusal…
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Continue reading →: Calculus in a Trenchcoat: The Case for Boring AITwo kinds of math walk around now. One reaches for what is. The other reaches for what is likely. Only one is wearing a trenchcoat
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Continue reading →: The Probability of You: A Quantum LifeQuantum mechanics changed how we understand the universe. At the smallest scales, certainty gives way to probability. Measurement gets tangled up with outcome. And somewhere in that strangeness, I found a better map for being human.
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Continue reading →: When the Universe Looks BackThere’s this thing that happens when I look at the moon. It starts before the looking, actually. There’s this feeling that comes first, rush of love, quiet and enormous, like greeting something that has always known you. I don’t summon it. It just arrives, and I go still, just for…
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Continue reading →: The Universe Doesn’t Build New Things. It Retunes Old Ones.We don’t become new people. We become differently tuned versions of the same self. Across nature, culture, and time, change seems to arise not from replacement, but from subtle shifts in constraint, balance, and coherence.
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Continue reading →: Where the Year Came Back to MeEvery year, almost to the day, the universe shows me this view. The sun dips into the same crease of the horizon, caught between buildings and cloud. I never plan for it. I just notice it when it arrives, like the universe nudging me to pay attention. This year, there…
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Continue reading →: Early Galaxies Are Growing Up Too FastThe universe keeps showing us galaxies that seem a little too mature for their age. At first it feels like a data problem. But the longer you look, the more it starts to feel like a gravity problem.
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