✨ Island time: Kendall Jenner romance fan fiction
Written like a screenplay, shaped like a virtual world game haunted by other forms of new media like music video and pop music, the author brilliantly casts images in an alternative reality, just like a movie would, but in a different format: a magazine beach read.
KENDALL JENNER wakes up.
We zoom in on: beautiful almond eyes, opening. They are animated by a mysterious twinkle.
"Hmm... I wonder what I should do today!?" She says, with a yawn, petting a small black cat with curious white markings on her forehead that almost make the shape of a question mark. "Good morning, Midnight," she says. MIDNIGHT squirms over a gleaming grid of sunlight projected across a big white bed.
KENDALL has long black hair that falls to her waist in a tumbling and glimmering waterfall.
KENDALL *sighs*
💨 Coordination headwind and the hidden force behind organizational chaos
De-facto differentiator between being a start-up and an organization with a chance at long term success: the emergent behavior of a choreographed organization. Incredibly precise but also playful presentation (emoji based👁️).
🐇 Many organizations pride themselves on moving quickly to tackle problems. 🐢 But over time they feel way, way slower. Accomplishing previously simple things feels like it takes forever.
🦹♂️ Clearly someone is doing something wrong. Perhaps there is some villain who is messing everything up. If we figure whose fault it is, we should get them to knock it off! 😓 Unfortunately there is no villain, it’s no one’s fault… and not something any one person can fix.
❓💨 There's a hidden force that makes life in successful organizations increasingly miserable. It's invisible, so we either don't see it... or we at least pretend not to.
🏋️♂️ The Happy Body with Jerzy Gregorek
A conversation with Jerzy - polish immigrant, olympic weightlifter record holder, poet, vegetarian, cancer survivor and much more. He’s the co-creator of the Happy Body Program and really got me excited about a ton of things i underestimated for my long term health.
Jerzy: He was 64. He was in pain. He was aged and not good. I started simply working with him. Putting him on The Happy Body program
It’s about eight years and then we brought him to this full capability, flexibility like a one-year-old. He’s in that place. Amazing. With two hips replaced and a shoulder, he was limited. But it didn’t really matter at all. I adapted to his problem and then made, inch by inch, his body better and more flexible.
🕸️ Safety nets matter: money, faith and philosophy
Lindyman nails another under-discussed topic with clear eyes: how safety nets turn life into a game, transforming our apettite for risk and play.
Doing hard things starts to feel fun when you’re safe. Challenges become a game, a puzzle. Through play, people exercise imagination, innovation, and problem-solving—key intellectual activities. You flex your intellectual muscles without risking your survival. There’s a thrill because you always have an out.
― AI alignment (do no harm) and the recent OpenAI resignations
If you’re concerned that the whole AI alignment team at OpenAI was dismantled, then this is a sane take on the recent developments and an overall a good resource on technology governance: who exactly governs the internet? and how far does their authority extend?
I doubt this is a victory for either “side” of the AI debate, but nonetheless I suspect OpenAI is making a healthy move. In organizations engaged in high-stakes engineering and research, it is generally better—for safety—not to rely solely on a discrete safety team.
Discrete safety functions tend to corrode healthy institutions. Functioning as a kind of internal regulator or watchdog, it is easy for an “us vs. them” dynamic to develop. This can result in a lack of collaboration and innovation, or even an instinct by product-focused engineers and results-oriented management to discount legitimate warnings from safety engineers.