024 – muse it with Anson Yu
This week’s links are curated by Anson Yu, a software developer from Toronto who is currently writing code at Jam3. See her portfolio of wide-ranging side projects here.
Enjoy! ✨
01 – Inventing on Principle
Life-changing advice delivered in the cadence of a Bob Ross tutorial. Every time I feel lost or demotivated, I find myself coming back to this specific 360p recording.
02 – Urban Village Project
The product of the One Shared House research project. When it comes to imagining better futures, I adore that it strikes the balance between aspirational and realistic.
(https://www.urbanvillageproject.com)
03 – Mimetic traps
Likely one of the best returns on investment for time spent reading. Read once, see everywhere.
That’s the mimetic trap in a nutshell: it hurts to leave, and there’s nowhere to go. It decouples the social reward signal from the rest of objective reality — you can spend years ascending ranks in a hierarchy without producing anything that the rest of humanity finds valuable. If you value the process itself, that’s fine. I didn’t.
(https://www.briantimar.com/notes/mimetic/mimetic)
04 – Window Swap
A tool that lets you gaze out someone else's window. Makes you feel small in the best way :)
(https://www.window-swap.com/)
05 – Bonus link from Anson
A very fun (and welcome) counter to the idea of the lone genius in history books. It's also captivating to explore pockets of scenius from the past.
(http://victorianengineeringconnections.net)
06 – Bonus link from the editor
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Compiled with love by Eduard.