This new camera is getting linked all over the place. I like the minimalist industrial design.

Loads of internal storage instead of SD cards makes sense.

The feature walkthrough video is worth a watch.

YouTube has so many interviews with great photographers these days.

Kent Hendricks:

Swearing improves grip strength by 9%, wall sit time by 22%, and plank time by 12%.

This matches my experience.

The first human object launched into space wasn’t Sputnik 1. It was actually a manhole cover accidentally blown off test shaft during a nuclear test in Nevada 38 days earlier. It reached speeds equal to six times Earth’s escape velocity and was never found.

Seems appropriate.

Mark Forster:

The most distinctive feature of FV is the way that its algorithm is primarily based on psychological readiness—this then opens the way to keeping urgency and importance in the best achievable balance.

I’m a sucker for productivity systems. I like the simplicity of this one.

Cal Paterson:

A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.

Also check out Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business.

Ryan Singer:

The counterintuitive thing is, we often feel like our task is to get to a “yes.” But what we actually need is a way to say “no.” It’s the ability to eliminate many, many things that aligns us on the one thing. It’s the “no, no, no, … YES!” that gives us the power to move forward and to stick with a project.

To help us to eliminate (not forever, but for the purpose of making a decision now) I’ve found one technique very helpful. The trick is to flip things around. Instead of describing the good that will happen by doing an idea, we look at what goes wrong when we don’t do it. To make that flip, we can ask two simple questions:

1. Knowing the customer can’t do what’s in the idea today, What are they doing instead?
2. What’s bad about that?

Donella Meadows (via James Clear):

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

The art of naming what’s happening in the room to get things back on track.

I’m not a fan of the word “learnings” either.

Life wisdom from The Marginalian.

The side-by-side comparison between a standard M and the redesign is fascinating.

Fascinating deep dive into hitting and overcoming the scaling issues affecting the sync engine Linear built.

Tara Seshan:

For years, communicating tradeoffs to senior leaders was one of my biggest challenges. While presenting the pros and cons between two priorities, I’d somehow always end up committing to doing both, and in less time than I had planned. As you’d expect, this usually went … badly. I’d burn myself out or, worse, burn out my team.

But when I started managing, I finally understood why I had been so ineffective at it. Sitting on the other side of the table, I watched others make the same mistakes I had. I realized I hadn’t been framing tradeoffs correctly.

John Brayton:

Similarly there is a new optional Next Article menu item for the swipe left menu of the article view on iPhone and iPad. To enable it, open the Settings screen, select Articles under Basic Options, and turn on Next Article under Basic Actions.

I tend to do a continuous scroll through my unread article list each day on my phone and often want to skip over long articles I’m not interested in.

This new action does the trick.

I’ve used this a few times now and it’s pretty ace.