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2025-04-18

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Things I learned

The air dinosaurs breathed had more oxygen in it than the air we breathe. Jurassic Park couldn’t have happened because the dinosaurs would asphyxiate. Via Lyman Stone.

The combined number of hidden Christians in China and India is estimated to be 120 million, large enough to be the fifth largest religion in the world. Via Diarmaid MacCulloch.

Worth your time

  1. “A person’s success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum.” — Donald Knuth via Mark Larson.

  2. From Stay Sassy:

I noticed that many parents of young children, despite having significantly more on their plates, seemed to get burnt out less. I even noticed this in myself, and didn’t have a real way to explain it – my first kid’s birth coincided with the busiest working period of my life (do not recommend), but I found that I had a more positive attitude towards work, for no reason that I could really explain. When I read this post, it all clicked – when you have young children Mission Doubt entirely disappears because you need to feed them.

I have also noticed that having a baby in the house is good for my creativity and relationship to my work. While I have less time for work, what I get out of that time is much, much higher quality.

  1. What’s behind the SynBio Bust? by Sarah Constantin

  2. Risk of Ruin Goods by Uri Bram

  3. Molson Hart on how tariffs and manufacturing in the USA: part 1 and part 2

  4. How restricting car traffic changed air pollution in Paris

  5. The myth of the infrastructure phase. Applications and the infrastructure to power them are built in tandem.

  6. There’s no speed limit.

Musings

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.” — Richard Feynman