Designed a logo and made it use P3 gamut following this guide. Makes a huge difference on displays that support it.

:root {
    --bright-green: rgb(0, 255, 0);
}

@supports (color: color(display-p3 1 1 1)) {
    :root {
        --bright-green: color(display-p3 0 1 0);
    }
}

From Incentives as selection effects:

“Show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome.” We take that Charlie Munger quote as a truism; I think it is true but misleading. We naturally parse it as: When I apply a new incentive to a target population, that same population changes their behavior.

But in my experience, that is not what happens. Instead: When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.

From Nobody Cares:

The one place in the world you get this vibe is probably Japan. Most people just really care. Patrick McKenzie refers to this as the will to have nice things. Japan has it, and the US mostly does not.

The will to have nice things perfectly captures why I resent some countries and adore others.

Finished reading The Life of Isaac Newton. It was dry to my taste, but still okay. It’s hard to read any history after experiencing David McCullough’s books.

I’m not sure many people appreciate how different the world was before and after Newton. His contributions weren’t the only ones that mattered, but they were profoundly significant. He used prisms to demonstrate that white light is composed of all the colors of the spectrum. He invented calculus (independently, though simultaneously, with Leibniz). He formulated the laws of motion. He discovered universal gravitation—an idea that sounds absurd at first: everything attracts everything else! Before him, the cosmos seemed governed by mysteries or divine intervention; after him, it was ruled by discoverable, mathematical laws. He also helped formalize the scientific method.

One thing the book does well is showing what a complicated person Newton was. He was smart, but also combative, suspicious, and vindictive. I would even go further and call his personality unpleasant. His obsession with quarrels was at odds with his intellect.

This contrast between his achievements and his difficult personality makes reading his biography challenging but also more interesting. The challenging part comes from my brain’s desire to have a coherent picture of someone, but life is not like that.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Moria

From It is link winter on X:

The truth on X is what random people commentate, polarize, interpret, and summarize from source material that is intentionally lost by a black box algorithm. There is no depth to anything on X because context with links is heavily penalized.

Getting off Twitter was one of the best decisions I made in the past year. My life has become much calmer.

I recently registered on Bluesky, and after a few minutes I couldn’t understand why I’d want to spend time there. It’s interesting how your perspective changes once you step away. You start to see it differently — as a giant arena where everyone is shouting, countless things are happening, yet nothing meaningful ever really occurs.

Found a wonderful website and a book — Motion Mountain. The book explores the many wonders of everyday life:

Using hundreds of stories, pictures, films, tables and puzzles, five volumes tell about sport, raindrops and animal life (mechanics, gravity and heat), about moving empty space and the sky at night (relativity and the structure of the universe), about lightning, lasers and nerves (electricity, optics, the brain, language and truth), and about colours, pleasure and the stars (quantum physics, nuclear physics and radioactivity). A sixth volume tells about the search for a final, unified theory of physics.

Surprisingly, I’ve stumbled upon it by accident and have never seen it recommended anywhere on the mainstream internet.

Also from the website:

Truthfulness — combined with politeness — make the world a better place.