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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 27/08/2025
Tried a textual podcast about organoids with @aneeshsathe.com. Also had Bompa (an AI persona) contribute based on a D20 roll. Promising format that could manage to capture the deliberate nature of long-form writing and the informality of trad. podcasts. roamresearch.com#/app/kinocom...
roamresearch.com
Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.
As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your d...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 18/06/2025
Sharing is this easy.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 17/06/2025
Technology and globalisation massively reduced daily physical load for large segments of the world. AI is potentially reducing daily cognitive load for large segments of the world. Q: Will we see the same chronic decay in our evolved cognitive capabilities? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 16/06/2025
While reading about the origins of international law, I learned about Grotius’ and his wife’s ingenious escape plan—receive trunks of books, get sent out in said trunk. blogs.bl.uk/european/202...
blogs.bl.uk
Two women, a lawyer and a book chest
Today, 19 April, is the anniversary of the death of Maria van Reigersberch, or Reigersbergen the wife of Hugo de Groot a.k.a. Grotius. Her husband is well known for his legal writings in which he laun...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 12/06/2025
Putting together a list of “pilgrimages” for my site. Basically, unreasonably long texts. Whereas "quake books" instantly and irrevocably alter one's inner landscape, "pilgrimages" are long and toilsome initiatives undertaken mostly on faith in the transformative power of the journey itself.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 09/06/2025
And we’re live on iOS. Go ahead and give the gift of interesting with Subset. Save, share and search the best web and app content; it's simple, fast and secure. apps.apple.com/us/app/subse...
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‎Subset Network
‎Give the gift of interesting with Subset. Save, share and search the best web and app content; it's simple, fast and secure. BENEFITS + Capture Signal: Save the best web and app content + Sprinkle ...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 16/04/2025
Old but scary article. Expect it’s even worse now, across many more sports. How does the cycle get broken, though? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
espn.com
'These kids are ticking time bombs': The threat of youth basketball
In part one of a two-part series, ESPN explores the dangers of youth basketball -- and how the culture of perpetual competition is jeopardizing the futures of the very stars it hopes to create.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 16/04/2025
Today’s reading is Kleptopia, about the swirling undercurrents of capital amidst the world of high finance. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptopia
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Kleptopia - Wikipedia
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 13/04/2025
For some reason, sync engines feel like a Whiteheadean advance in tech. They sweep away a whole bunch of distributed systems problems in a way that feels more substantial than elegant abstractions. electric-sql.com/blog/2025/04...
electric-sql.com
Building AI apps? You need sync | ElectricSQL
AI apps are collaborative. Building them requires solving resumability, interruptibility, multi‑tab, multi‑device and multi‑user.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 10/04/2025
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” But when everything is a meme, the timeline ain’t that long. At all.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 09/04/2025
Today’s reading is Kafka on the Shore. Just one book across fiction and non-fiction for a few days, and it’s actually quite pleasant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...
en.wikipedia.org
Kafka on the Shore - Wikipedia
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 08/04/2025
The Simple and Sinister training protocol is GOATed—100 swings and 10 TGUs. Straightforward, quick, flexible. For optimal experience, do under a bright blue sky. www.strongfirst.com/tag/simple-s...
strongfirst.com
Simple & Sinister Archives | StrongFirst
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 08/04/2025
Came back to this a few times over the last week. www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
noemamag.com
We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 07/04/2025
Went for some fiction for this AM’s reading—Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. Murakami’s prose always gets me with its blend of directness and aching beauty. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka_o...
en.wikipedia.org
Kafka on the Shore - Wikipedia
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 05/04/2025
Finished The Math Academy Way this AM. Real nice meta-review of what it takes to accelerate talent development. justinmath.com/books/
justinmath.com
Justin Skycak
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 05/04/2025
New podcast queue approach I’m enjoying: don’t save episodes to listen to later. Instead, only one saved episode allowed and that episode must be listened to immediately. In practice, follow a bunch of interesting/reliable shows and choose an episode in the moment after very quick browsing.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 04/04/2025
Looking for keystone reads on reducing complexity in software engineering. Blogs and essays, not books. To me, reducing complexity means removing non-essential capabilities and/or adding graceful abstractions. What’s the prior art on this?
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 04/04/2025
Reading about cognitive learning strategies in The Math Academy Way. Realised that these ideas are starting to infect how I think about my learning in basically every area. justinmath.com/books/
justinmath.com
Justin Skycak
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 02/04/2025
Not into high finance at all but this seems like a neat approach. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
Investment Base Pairs
<div> <p>Modern finance remains constrained by legacy portfolio construction techniques. While the conventional quantile approaches (e.g., long top 30%/sh
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 31/03/2025
This AM: read some more of The Math Academy Way—and then did my daily math. justinmath.com/books/
justinmath.com
Justin Skycak
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 31/03/2025
This week has started strong: ZACH LOWE IS BACK.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 29/03/2025
Big tech’s relation to attention-as-resource is similar to how states relate to wind-as-resource? open.spotify.com/episode/0ZIJ...
open.spotify.com
11: Eugene Wei - Amusing Each Other to Death
Dialectic · Episode
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 28/03/2025
Wild. On how one can come to own the wind. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com
Ventography and the spatial politics of wind - Emilia Groupp, 2025
This article explores the co-production of wind energy resources and UK maritime territories in the North Sea. It shows how endeavors to map wind for energy are...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 28/03/2025
NBA YT is usually trolling when they title “MUST SEE” and “WILD” endings—not this time. youtube.com/watch?v=B5xt...
youtube.com
MUST-SEE ENDING! Bulls vs Lakers 🤯 | March 27, 2025
YouTube video by NBA
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 28/03/2025
Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! might actually be required reading for how to orientate in this increasingly sloppified, intensely memetic cultural moment. austinkleon.substack.com
austinkleon.substack.com
Austin Kleon | Substack
Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers. Click to read Austin Kleon, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 27/03/2025
“But the web is now 18 years old. It has reached adulthood.” web.archive.org/web/20240522...
web.archive.org
The web is dead. Long live the internet
The web -- not to mention social-media apps -- has been abuzz over this essay by Chris Anderson in Wired’s latest US edition. Our changing online habits, he argues, have eclipsed the world wide web
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 27/03/2025
Gobbling up neural data makes sense on one hand, but I also can’t help thinking that it seems like a little bit of a tarpit idea. “Just a little more data and we’re good.” … “No, just a tad more, I swear that’ll solve it.” … “C’mon, we’re almost there.” www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...
thetransmitter.org
Accepting “bitter lesson” and embracing brain’s complexity
To gain insight into complex neural data, we must move toward a data-driven regime, employing large models trained on vast amounts of data. Experts weigh in.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 26/03/2025
Taking a spin through JS’s Advice on Upskilling and The Math Academy Way. Helpful right now as I’m trying to advance a bunch of skills in parallel—computing, entrepreneurship, BJJ, math, climbing. justinmath.com/books/
justinmath.com
Justin Skycak
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Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Imagine human bodies grown without complete brains, without consciousness. These are "bodyoids." And today in MIT Technology Review, researchers from Stanford University are ready to talk about them. www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1...
technologyreview.com
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 25/03/2025
Braudel’s Civilisation and Capitalism? Done. Newfound appreciation for the consistent & compounding ingenuity-at-scale of humanity across millennia & a renewed appreciation for how the forces of capital, labour, tech & ecology entangle & perpetuate one another. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...
ucpress.edu
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Folks, this is going to be big: “Hype Studies is an emergent, transdisciplinary research arena aimed at inquiring hype as a powerful and pervasive phenomenon that influences economic trends, political agendas, media narratives, and technological developments.” hypestudies.org
hypestudies.org
Home | Hype Studies
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 19/03/2025
If the model doesn’t match the reality, then the model’s the issue. I think this goes for the analytics movement in the NBA. Not everything can be quantified and optimised. And within that “everything” there’s probably gonna be some critical factors. youtube.com/watch?v=3G5k...
youtube.com
Jimmy Butler Just Exposed The NBA
YouTube video by Hoop Reports
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 15/03/2025
👀 “What the global moment calls for is neither accelerators, nor brakes, but steering technologies... World logics based on fundamentally new principles and ideas that comprehend the chaos well enough to allow us to govern and steer.” protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/sop-2025-a...
protocolized.summerofprotocols.com
SoP 2025: Accelerating Order
Issue #6: The Summer of Protocols 2025 program
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 14/03/2025
Kinda like experiments involving blind wine tasting—stuff like this makes me sceptical of the whole “taste is the final frontier in a super-abundant world” shtick. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 10/03/2025
Read more Braudel today—this time on the rise and decline of Amsterdam. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...
ucpress.edu
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 08/03/2025
Is something like Spacetime… spacetimedb.com
spacetimedb.com
SpacetimeDB
Multiplayer at the speed of light.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 07/03/2025
“A new question tends to erase its own origin; it is hard to imagine that there ever was a time when the question was not there. The effort immediately shifts to figuring out the answer to the new aspect of reality illuminated by the question.” genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
What is the question? - Genome Biology
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 07/03/2025
TIL from Braudel that Antwerp and Genoa were influential in the development of Europe. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...
ucpress.edu
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 06/03/2025
“Relax to win”—perennial truth of peak performance. www.espn.co.uk/mma/ufc/stor...
espn.co.uk
UFC star Alex Pereira and the mystery of punching power
The UFC's light heavyweight king, Alex Pereira, may hold the key to unlocking enormous punching power.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 06/03/2025
Reading about Venice’s rise and decline in Braudel’s epic trilogy this morning. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...
ucpress.edu
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 04/03/2025
Deep Research products should return a knowledge graph plus context rather than text walls. Interactive artefact > low dimension consumable. Agentic Deep Graph Reasoning Yields Self-Organizing Knowledge Networks arxiv.org/abs/2502.13025
arxiv.org
Agentic Deep Graph Reasoning Yields Self-Organizing Knowledge Networks
We present an agentic, autonomous graph expansion framework that iteratively structures and refines knowledge in situ. Unlike conventional knowledge graph construction methods relying on static extrac...
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 04/03/2025
“Fixing our trust infrastructure, in other words, requires fixing our data infrastructure.” - @arnaud.bsky.social gestalt.cafe/trust-infras...
gestalt.cafe
On Trust Infrastructure Trust underpins civilisation. It expands the scope and complexity of the pursuits within our collective reach by allowing us to act as a…
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 03/03/2025
Handy movement sessions to try out. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com
Follow Along Classes - YouTube
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 03/03/2025
Wondering: can one stitch together cross views to make a 3D movie? moultano.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/y...
moultano.wordpress.com
You Should Make Cross Views
Your camera has the ability to take three dimensional photos. Your screen has the ability to display three dimensional photos. You’ve probably never used either.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 03/03/2025
We’re doing moon stuff again apparently. fireflyspace.com/missions/blu...
fireflyspace.com
Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Firefly Aerospace
Firefly’s first mission to the Moon will deliver 10 NASA CLPS payloads to Mare Crisium with a target landing date of March 2, 2025.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 19/02/2025
New post: Visual programming is stuck on nodes-and-wires. All the node-and-wires visual languages assume we figured out the function part, and all we have to do is layer visuals on top of languages we already have. What if there was a different way forward?
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 27/02/2025
A new version of Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. + Summary stats and streaks + Compound search queries + URL clean-up + Import and export Head to the site to see it in action and/or get access right now. subset.network
subset.network
Subset | Saving, Sharing and Searching—But Better
Subset provides a better way to save, share and search the web. Available for early access on iOS TestFlight now.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 27/02/2025
Oh no—I’ve been application-specific device pilled. l sincerely want a DC for reading ebooks and doing math. daylightcomputer.com
daylightcomputer.com
Daylight | A More Caring Computer
Daylight Computer (DC1) is a new kind of calm computer, designed for deep work and health.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 27/02/2025
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - The Perspective of the World- University of California Press Onto the final volume of this epic trilogy. Shaping up to be the best yet. www.ucpress.edu/books/civili...
ucpress.edu
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III by Fernand Braudel - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet @msweet.net · 26/02/2025
Young [Plural Improper Noun] Are Using [New Technology] for Everything, Giving Blank Stares When Asked How [Lower Level Abstractions] Actually Work futurism.com/young-coders...
futurism.com
Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving "Blank Stares" When Asked How Programs Actually Work
Young programmers "can't actually program" because they're too reliant on AI models, writes developer Namanyay Goel.
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