• Back from a long gap of non-web publishing (from April 16th to June 5th). Sorry! To not have a criminally large gap, I let Claude through my inconsistent morning pages and backfilled and lightly edited some effectively random days.
  • Lots of interesting undocumented things happened, like building my 24h agentic harness called Apollo, going to an algotrading hackathon, consequent insights about vibe slop and the importance of walks, etc.
  • Trying to memory-rewrite last month wouldn’t capture my daily idiosyncricity enough.
• Am holding up a lot better with new morning routine + timeblocking + Todoist stack! Life now feels like an hour allocation problem.
  • Lots of feasability questions about high agency people are clear to me now.
• read David Oks’ essay explaining how China developed faster than India because of immaterial factors like education and mindset and dismantling of old oppresive and illogical traditions.
  • I agree and think immaterial factors (like “mindset”) are why the West is so developed and why civilisation is progressing.
  • The most immaterially latently advanced place in the world right now is San Francisco, among the best social technology. In X years, it will diffuse to the rest of the world (“agency” and their framings of exponential thinking, models, worldviews… will become ubiquitous terms and ideas). Because it’s better. That’s also why they have so many results for the population.