Archive - Aliveness Studies

Trading performance for productivity with LLMs

Andrej Karpathy has a brilliant new video. He divides coding into pre-LLM and post-LLM paradigms (with a third middle category referring to specialist…

Jun 22 •

December 2024

Digital Gardens as a Service

Infrastructure for persistent thoughts

Dec 26, 2024 •

February 2024

Sunday Snippets #7

money is the unit of caring; using your phone is speedrunning life; comet relationships

Feb 4, 2024 •

January 2024

Sunday Snippets #6

don't drown keeping others afloat; choose upside over certainty; speed is perpetually underrated

Jan 21, 2024 •

December 2023

Treating male pattern baldness

Lots of people have asked me about hair loss/male pattern baldness and how to prevent/reverse it, so I thought I’d write it up.

Dec 17, 2023 •

October 2023

2C-B is one of Sasha Shulgin’s chemical creations.

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

Sunday Snippets #5

do the obvious thing; slow is fake; take your plan and slam it into reality

Sep 24, 2023 •

random ramblings

Sep 3, 2023 •

August 2023

Giving gladly, giving publicly

On not being bashful about philanthopy

Aug 28, 2023 •

ICP #001: melanotan II

The inaugural Interesting Compound Profile

Aug 20, 2023 •

July 2023

Sunday Snippets #4

do not permit anyone to harm you

Jul 9, 2023 •

May 2023

Sunday Snippets #3

you can bend the world to your will a surprising percentage of the time

May 14, 2023 •

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