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How Long is the Present?

Common sense says - Time flows. But does it really flow? Its such a common expression in any language, like in poem above - our minutes hasten to their end. It conveys the message that we are standing fixed as rock in the river, and time like water is running. The coming water is the future, and the one that has gone is the past.

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Poetical Science

My father used to sell machines that helped farmers cut chaff to feed buffaloes. As a kid, I watched very closely how these machines worked. It was like poetry to me. A man would put chaff into the mouth of the machine, and another person would rotate the wheel with blades attached to it. It moved the chaff towards the wheel, and the blades cut it with consistent precision. I watched how each part of the machine worked in coherence, like poetry. I saw how each part was essential too. Sometime...

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How to Stay True During Market Frenzy

Yesterday I casted this on Farcaster-KP (d/acc) on WarpcastCreative narratives have started to float again. Ambitious projects are being developed again. The floor is heating up. I can smell the normie interest again. But very few projects can deliver true utility, efficiency, or innovation. Being true to yourself is very important. A project is not good just because my bag is involved. It is not good just because some nice, intelligent, or amazing person I met on the internet is building it....

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I read ~4 books last week

No, I didn’t finish all four, but I read a few chapters from each as suggested by @phil in the SV Canon book club on Farcaster. I overpromised myself that I’d finish the entire books within the week, which, unsurprisingly, I couldn’t. I ended up spending too much time on the first book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and I still don’t regret it. I loved reading about the Manhattan Project and the stories of the people involved in it. It solidified my belief that every major project is the res...

What is SPAM !!

Last week, Farcaster was dominated by discussions about spam. Dan wrote a post The spam filtering dilemma. I took this opportunity to dive into history of spam. It's always interesting to me to explore the origins of words, and this four-letter word indeed has a fascinating story. In 1994, when the internet was gaining mass adoption, the word "spam" began to be used for any irrelevant and unsolicited message sent en masse.USENETEstablished in 1980 - USENET, a global distributed discussion sys...

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Dawn of Copper

2496 B.C. The sun started to cast long shadows as we traveled on our advanced oxen carts for many moons to reach a place they called 'the market.' We hear that many people who live far from this place meet here to exchange items. We hear stories that the place they live in is in the rockier hills where there are no trees. There are so many stories I have heard about them from my elders in the village who have gone to great lengths in their youth to see what is out there. Our elders exchanged ...

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Barter of Beliefs

6942 B.C. I am sitting under a tree, waiting for one of the hunters from my tribe. He killed a wild boar today, so large that the meat wou...