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yasuhiro yoshida 吉田康浩 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷
@yoppu.bsky.social
Self-taught iOS/Rails/JS samurai cop, traveler, active participant in loss. Busy turning tragedies into a comedy. Available for a gig in between. #MMT #Degrowth
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December read ✅

I thought the title was brilliant. It was a good read.

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akka…
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December 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
November read ✅

A book by the famous human-behavior researcher and communication expert — a.k.a. a "recovering awkward person."

Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
Do you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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October read ✅

From time to time, I enjoyed the author’s media appearances, so this was long overdue.

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Goodreads
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book abo…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
September read ✅

This is the story of Dostoevsky and his last wife, Anna. I didn't enjoy this much, though 😐

The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky
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The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the W…
A revelatory new portrait of the courageous woman who s…
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September 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
257 - Colleen Schnettler, Creator of HelloQuery 💯
CODE WITH JASON

“Do the persons in my next project care whether or not they do well?”

“Do the persons in my next project even aware that they might not be doing well?”

These may be my top concerns, provided every other condition is not terrible.
September 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
August read ✅

Continuation from last month, I wanted to explore more about relationships—this time leaning a little more toward acknowledging the presence of love.

It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life by Jillian Turecki
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It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That W…
The beloved relationship coach, teacher, and host of th…
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August 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.
August 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
July read ✅

A revolutionary book.

The Value of Others by Orion Taraban -
Understanding the Economic Model of Relationships to Get (and Keep) More of What You Want in the Sexual Marketplace
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The Value of Others
Understanding the Economic Model of Relationships to Ge…
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July 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.

- Carl Sagan
July 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️
June 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
June read ✅

I explored another genre this month. A poetry style journal, which was dedicated particularly to people in their twenties, who might be having trouble finding purposes and goals in life.

twenty something by ron lim
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Twenty Something
At the age of 22, Ron packed his bags and bought a one-…
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June 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Funniest detail to me re: Thom Yorke's weird relationship to Israel is that it's the first place Creep really took off so Israel kinda launched Radiohead's career. Israeli music fans could not get enough of a song that asks "what the hell am I doing here" and answers with "I don't belong here."
May 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
May read ✅

Deviation from the usual course. I thought shouldn't hurt to read a narrative non-fiction, the plight of the human.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Gre…
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achieve…
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May 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Yes! Hallucinations and sycophancy are not some unintended consequence of AI. They are features, not bugs. If we want to improve things, we need changes in design, governance and incentives, not end-of-pipe fixes.
"LLMs do not distinguish between fact & fiction. They are not designed to tell the truth. They are designed to persuade, yet they are implemented in sectors where truth & detail matter, e.g. education, science, health, the media, law, & finance." My interview @washingtonpost.com tinyurl.com/2e7253ja
AI is more persuasive than a human in a debate, study finds
When provided basic demographic information on their opponents, AI chatbots adapted their arguments and became more persuasive than humans in online debates.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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You can't have an "adult" conversation about the federal budget if you ask us to think of the US like a household. That's how you have a childish conversation.
Chapter 1 of The Deficit Myth
April 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
April read ✅

Sort of continuation from the last month. My question was, if we fall to the level of the system we live in, why are our odds of survival different?

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why by Amanda Ripley
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and…
It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyon…
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April 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
These were my posts on X. I reposted them here to keep both timeline here and there in sync.

Micro book review for April will follow soon.
April 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
March read ✅

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” -- James Clear

Thinking In Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial …
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April 30, 2025 at 7:33 AM
February read ✅

As somebody who has been told how intimidating Marx's works are and has not read any of them, I was drawn to this title.

A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics by Hadas Thier
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A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marx…
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest…
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April 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
January read ✅

Supercommunicators was great. It was a matter of time before I read his other books. This one was great, too.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Bu…
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past tw…
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April 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
December read ✅

Everyone, especially those who don't understand younger generations inclination towards socialistic features, must read this.

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Ar…
A spirited, deeply researched exploration of why capita…
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April 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
November read ✅ (LOL I barely made it)

That famous book by the author from 7 years ago. Finally. I'll probably read other books by him as well when I get a chance although they all are a quite long read.

The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
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The Laws of Human Nature
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48…
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November 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM