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Boris Smus

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Free of metaphor and myth, he grinds a stubborn crystal: the infinite map of the One who is all His stars. smus.com

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Boris Smus @smus.com · 6h
Every Promethean revolution carries the seeds of its own decentering. The telescope, spaceflight, the genome — and now LLMs. Rabbi Bunim, to the AI builders: "I am but dust and ashes." To the rest of us: "For my sake was the world created." smus.com/notes/2026/w...
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We Are as Gods, We Are as Cogs
Everyone must have two pockets with a note in each pocket… In one: “For my sake was the world created.” In the other: “I am but dust and ashes.
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I sure am.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social do u even lift bro
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 20/09/2026
What Big Americans like? Americans like Big Sur, Big Mac, Big Truck and Big House. Americans no like Big Pharma, Big Brother and not Big Tech no more. Half like Big Government and Big Science. Other half like Big Oil and Big Business.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 16/09/2026
Anarchy’s Middle Managers: my review of The Dispossessed Riffs on power, bureaucracy, and giving the work away, inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s great novel. smus.com/books/the-di...
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Anarchy’s Middle Managers
I started hostile. Urras seemed like a transparent critique of Earth, while Anarres seemed too good to be true. By the end, I realized I was right about Anarres and wrong about why: its failure to…
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 28/08/2026
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 19/08/2026
I gave an AI three classic Soviet invention puzzles. It solved one in six seconds. Was it inventing or recalling? Either way, are we any closer to an invention machine? smus.com/books/and-su...
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TRIZ and the Elusive Invention Machine
This book is an odd one. Is it written for children? Most of the text focuses on invention case studies that are presented like math-olympiad puzzles for precocious ten-year-olds. Altshuller eggs the…
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Building an SSG for publishing digital gardens to ATProto github.com/gordonbrande...
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GitHub - gordonbrander/italic: Publish your digital garden to the Atmosphere
Publish your digital garden to the Atmosphere. Contribute to gordonbrander/italic development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 23/07/2026
When a bridge collapses, blaming gravity is a non-answer. Engineers are supposed to design for gravity, and people who design companies should similarly design for financial gravity. This book is about how to do that. smus.com/books/incorr...
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Defying Financial Gravity
When a bridge collapses, blaming gravity is a non-answer. Engineers are supposed to design for gravity, and people who design companies should similarly design for financial gravity. This book is…
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 11/07/2026
should i pick east or west germany? hard to say since im in berlin. accompanied by www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ky...
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 03/06/2026
Just finished The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley. We're "walking sacks of seawater" carrying a Precambrian tide pool in every cell. Half evolutionary philosophy, half poetic memoir. "Here time becomes space." Best read outdoors, slowly. smus.com/books/the-im...
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The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey is a collection of personal naturalist story-essays from the 1940s and 1950s. It's hard to classify, but I would describe it as a highly imaginative intersection…
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 20/05/2026
New on invention.cards: Stories are branches inside the full tech tree — follow a curated chain of discoveries without losing the surrounding context. Plus 1,500 new era-styled images and a mobile swipe UI. smus.com/invention-ca...
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 10/05/2026
E-ink isn't nostalgia but a line of defense for cognitive sovereignty against feeds and AI overreliance. I just open-sourced supernote-cli to pipe distraction-free thinking from Supernote straight into digital workflows. smus.com/notes/2026/s...
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supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe
A recent  NYT piece  argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not…
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 26/02/2026
Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench app for macOS. • Own your history & memory: plain text files you control. • Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread. • Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors. No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-...
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 11/02/2026
my little agent orchestrator is growing up. just playing around with some names now. wdyt?
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 06/02/2026
updated for 2026
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 24/12/2025
Built a NetHack-style roguelike and got an LLM to play it. LLMs are terrible at parsing ASCII maps. Solved it by converting FOV to explicit directions — "NEW: N, E" vs "VISITED: S" vs "BLOCKED: W". Once it knows what's novel vs explored, it actually navigates.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 19/12/2025
My e-ink tablet's handwriting recognition has a 27% error rate. So I benchmarked local VLMs against cloud models: Claude Opus 4.5: 3% error, 6 seconds qwen3-vl:8b (local): 5% error, 74 seconds A 2% accuracy hit to keep my journal entirely on-device? I'll take that trade. smus.com/notes/2025/l...
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 31/10/2025
typography revealed
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 18/10/2025
love that my TTS reader pronounces Xi (in Xi Jinping) as “roman eleven”. something very fitting about that
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 12/10/2025
the question practically answers itself
What is intelligence? It’s all chicken salad.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 30/09/2025
America against America by Wang Huning, 1991
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 29/09/2025
The most fruitful moments for contemplation are often the least conducive to capture. So I built a way to capture from anywhere - watch, phone, or e-paper - all flowing to plaintext. The pursuit of frictionless capture
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The pursuit of frictionless capture
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 20/09/2025
how about instead, the government pays talented people to come to the US and contribute their amazing talent, grit, and creativity?
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 20/09/2025
@nearestnabors.com great talk at cascadia—got a link to the slides?
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 13/09/2025
please explain this gratuitously violent iconography
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 10/09/2025
iPhone air: right direction, wrong dimension
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 06/09/2025
this is it boys this is department of war
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Scott Jenson @jenson.org · 30/08/2025
Just a reminder that I'm offering free #UX mentoring sessions for UX designers that want help with their teams (this is for personal growth, I don't do product consulting) jenson.org/go/mentor
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Mentor Meeting | Scott Jenson | Cal.com
Mentor Meeting
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 25/08/2025
i saw two shooting stars last night i wished on them but they were only satellites is it wrong to wish on space hardware? i wish i wish i wish you'd care
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 20/08/2025
i would like to conduct research on the people that would like to drink this beverage
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 18/08/2025
PSA: Apple II did not have a mouse
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 03/08/2025
youtu.be/X1VBSNxCqNg?...
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The Mystery of Wedgwood Rock
YouTube video by Burke Museum
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 16/07/2025
#UIST2025 Student Innovation Contest (SIC) is now accepting submissions on PCS! This year’s theme is “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the Frontiers of Multi-Modal Haptics.” 🔗 details: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ 🗓️ deadline: July 18, 2025
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UIST 2025 - Student Innovation Context
Join the UIST Student Innovation Contest (SIC) 2025 and help shape the future of immersive interaction! In partnership with DataFeel, this year’s theme — “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the…
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 14/07/2025
magnum facere
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 11/07/2025
FYI we peaked in magnificence in 1726
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 10/07/2025
My notes on a mind bending book about how culture runs two flywheels that make humanity great: generational and genetic.
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Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
Humans are remarkably successful as a species. Why? Many would say it's because we're just so darn smart compared to other animals, but Henrich suggests that individual intelligence plays a small…
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 03/07/2025
Sad this trend hasn’t yet (?) arrived in Seattle despite the easily accessible great outdoors being vastly superior
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 02/07/2025
robotics to have its chatgpt moment in 2-3 years! meanwhile, robotics... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfb...
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Chinese AI robots compete in first ever soccer match
YouTube video by NBC News
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 01/07/2025
prediction: mercenaries will beat mercenaries
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 30/06/2025
also good-weird neal.fun
neal.fun
Neal.fun
Games, visualizations, interactives and other weird stuff.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 30/06/2025
tired: ui alignment wired: ai alignment inspired: human alignment
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 25/06/2025
putting the ‘curse’ in cursor?
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 24/06/2025
upgraded 2017 intel imac → m4 macmini, so far installed 100% of apps via `brew install --cask $app`
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 23/06/2025
Hey babe, IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 15/06/2025
halp
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 11/06/2025
uh oh i did a thing about.fb.com/news/2025/06...
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You Can Now Edit Videos With Meta AI
We’re launching a generative AI video editing feature across the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website and the Edits app to help you bring your creative ideas to life.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 10/06/2025
AI experiments in numerically constrained poetry writing feat. Даниил Хармс chatgpt.com/share/68477c...
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ChatGPT - Исправление суммы до миллиона
Shared via ChatGPT
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 09/06/2025
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Math from Three to Seven by A. K. Zvonkin
More a journal than an educational treatise, Math from Three to Seven chronicles the uniquely soviet phenomenon known as Математические Кружки (Math Circles), applied specifically to young kids. I per...
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 07/06/2025
what is this amazingness diagram.website
diagram.website
Diagram Website
An internet map…
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