https://coke.do/issues/115-1468280
推荐可乐周报，质量很棒，比如最新这期就有两个非常好的 insight：

- 免费贡献99%的部分，对剩下的1%收费。https://dailywritinghabits.substack.com/p/give-away-99-for-free-monetize-the
- 四种作者，你想成为哪一种？https://qr.ae/pvux48

https://evantravers.com/articles/2022/06/30/dating-other-task-managers/

Great insights. The main takeaway for me is to have "the List" and "the Brain", where "the List" is things you committed to do soon (say today).

I have been using a similar system where there is a list of "immediate todos" and a backlog. The difference is my "immediate todos" are not actually what I committed to do soon. And that sometimes leads to procrastination. I will be trying out this new "the List vs. the Brain" approach to see if it helps.

> Still more intriguing: Brain and List could be separate systems.
E.g. copy items from the List to a piece of paper first thing in the morning.

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https://youtu.be/l-iHDj3EwdI

感谢 limboy 主持录制和剪辑！
https://bytetalk.fm/posts/episode-10/

https://lloydtabb.substack.com/p/data-is-rectangular-and-other-limiting
A primer on where SQL falls short especially with hierarchical / nested repeated data and an attempt to solve it.

Two things that are particularly interesting:
- Malloy introduces the concept of aggregate locality [1] to make it much easier and less error-prone to express query intent with nested repeated data. See also symmetric aggregates [2].
- Malloy not only understands nested data, but also writes nested data.

There are also the VS Code Extension [3], native DuckDB support, ... that makes it easy to work with Malloy.

[1] https://malloydata.github.io/documentation/language/aggregates.html#aggregate-locality
[2] https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/best-practices/understanding-symmetric-aggregates
[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=malloydata.malloy-vscode

Disclaimer: Malloy is an experimental project created by lloyd tabb, the co-founder of Looker which was acquired by Google. I currently work in the Looker organization but don't directly work on or with Malloy. Opinions are my own.

The annual must-watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Eo7fwGBJ4

The problem with stupidity, though, is that it often goes hand-in-hand with power. Bonhoeffer writes, “Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.”

This works in two ways. The first is that stupidity does not disbar you from holding office or authority. History and politics are swimming with examples of when the stupid have risen to the top (and where the smart are excluded or killed). Second, the nature of power requires that people surrender certain faculties necessary for intelligent thought — faculties like independence, critical thinking, and reflection.

https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/

A great overview/analysis piece
https://a16z.com/2023/01/19/who-owns-the-generative-ai-platform/

https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/

> MOST PEOPLE DON’T HAVE THAT MUCH DATA: In order to understand why large data sizes are rare, it is helpful to think about where the data actually comes from. Imagine you’re a medium sized business, with a thousand customers. Let’s say each one of your customers places a new order every day with a hundred line items. This is relatively frequent, but it is still probably less than a megabyte of data generated per day. In three years you would still only have a gigabyte, and it would take millenia to generate a terabyte.

> WORKLOAD SIZES ARE SMALLER THAN OVERALL DATA SIZES: There are acute economic pressures incentivizing people to reduce the amount of data they process. Just because you can scale out and process something very fast doesn’t mean you can do so inexpensively. If you use a thousand nodes to get a result, that is probably going to cost you an arm and a leg. The Petabyte query I used to run on stage to show off BigQuery cost $5,000 at retail prices. Very few people would want to run something so expensive.

> DATA IS A LIABILITY: An alternate definition of Big Data is “when the cost of keeping data around is less than the cost of figuring out what to throw away.” I like this definition because it encapsulates why people end up with Big Data. It isn’t because they need it; they just haven’t bothered to delete it.

反乌托邦文学的想象并不是凭空而来的。实际上，反乌托邦文学中想象的部分，恰恰来源于我们当今的种族主义资本主义现实中。

如果我刻薄一点，我会直接说：历史以来，反乌托邦文学就是把被边缘被歧视被压迫的人的现实生活拿过来，移到有特权的人的身上，写成的“恐怖”小说：

假如所有人都不得不移民流浪到别的的地方，不仅仅是那些第三世界的人...
假如所有人都没有生育自由，连中产白人女性都没有了生育自由...

从正面说，反乌托邦文学让那些想象力缺乏的人至少看到了被压迫的人的生活。从反面来说，被压迫的人的真实生活被虚构成了“科幻小说”，让真实的压迫反而隐身了。

这也就是为什么这本书中我选择了不去设想过度可怕的未来。因为可怕的事情在过去发生过，可怕的事情在现今还在继续发生。

—— 诗集《世界不断终结，世界继续前行》。美国作家弗兰妮·蔡。 source

Nice survey.
https://tedium.co/2023/03/04/self-hosted-saas-app-alternatives/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677770/The_Case_of_the_Golden_Idol/
A wonderful game of puzzle solving via deduction. A must-play if you like Return of the Obra Dinn (arguably less accessible than this game).

https://chenxi.dev/ownership-in-rust 最近学 Rust 感觉挺有意思的，总结了下所有权的概念，未来学习更深入了之后，再聊聊生命周期和编译 #Rust #memory #blog