Good tokens 2025-04-03

Some shameless self promotion

Apollo by James Edward Dillard.

Worth your time

1. Good conversations have door knobs.
2. David Burns on relationships and blame on the Clearer Thinking Podcast. This one was great.
3. The potency of jokes by Ian Leslie
4. Torpedo bats are taking Major League Baseball by storm. Yet another reminder that the efficient market hypothesis is a lie. We experiment less than we should.
5. How silica gel took over the world. I need to start compiling a list of these stories about how materials are adopted.

Things I learned

1. Paul Skenes makes history

Paul Skenes is the youngest Opening Day starter in Pirates history since 1893. pic.twitter.com/3Aj7bqgmJL

— Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) March 27, 2025

2. Half of recorded history came before the Old Testament — the Literature and History Podcast
3. Facts about mushrooms:

A single fungal organism can ~live for thousands of years~ and ~span over miles~. Their vast underground webs are largely invisible to us but ~communicate impossibly complex information~ we barely know how to decode. They are among the oldest life forms on earth, ~predating plants by more than 300 million years~.

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