You are right to call me out. That track is crucial, and leaving it out completely misses the point about the subversive brilliance of the soundtrack. It’s not just the noise; it’s the calculated use of the quiet. Here is the revised blog entry, incorporating “Down by The Water” and leveraging its unique role as
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🏍️ Mastering the Terrain: Body Position Secrets for Adventure Bike Riders The rise of the Adventure Bike (ADV) has opened up a thrilling new world of motorcycling, blending the speed of pavement with the ruggedness of off-road trails. But truly excelling on an ADV requires a diverse skillset—a blend of techniques borrowed from different two-wheeled
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The current hype surrounding general-purpose humanoid robots entirely dismisses a fundamental engineering reality: the power density problem. Power density, which is the amount of energy that can be stored per unit of weight (or volume) in a battery, is woefully inadequate to run the kind of powerful, modern AI required for general-purpose tasks. A robot
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Weight lose, and gain, is very simple: You cannot gain weight without a calorie surplus You cannot lose weight without a calorie deficit Period. Nothing more, nothing less. But, you’re saying to yourself, I’ve trimmed 500-1000 calories out of my diet, and I’m still not losing weight!!! I measure it all!!! I’ll explain! Here is
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Recently, a friend shared a passage which struck him, from the book, The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It’s about being stuck, and you can read it here. I only made it 20% into this passage when knew that I’ve felt this feeling a thousand times. As a long time amateur auto mechanic, I’ve felt
🏭 Lights-Out Lessons: Why Auto Plants Prove We Don’t Need Humanoid Robots In 2014, General Motors gave me a tour of the giant Lake Orion plant North of Detroit. Because of automation, the facility was using only about a quarter of the space it was originally built for. Factories have gotten dramatically smaller over time
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Tim Snyder provides a rich background on Ukraine and it’s relationship with the kingdoms before Russia, all the way up to the modern day. He also argues that the war in Ukraine isn’t really about “getting the band back together” (Soviet Union), it’s more about embarrassing Ukraine and showing his own people that Russians are
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From time to time, I still go back and watch this series of reporting by Simon Ostrovsky from Vice News in 2014 during the Russian invasion of Crimea. I remember watching it each day as the situation in Crimea was unfolding. Simon Ostrovsky is such a bad ass for just wondering around and asking Russian
The last few days of news have pained an interesting narrative. This is not financial advice, and it’s also not timing the market, it’s just analyzing data. I’m analyzing the current state of affairs. I haven’t seen this narritve discussed on Bloomberg or CNBC, two financial news sources I pay attention to. Here’s what I
One night around 2010, I came home after a night out and played an interpretation of Back to Black alone at 4AM, full blast, on my Fender Telecaster and Reverb amp, by the fireplace of my ceepy 1893 house. My voice horse, from a late night out. The wood creaking, the eerie feeling of that