The Timbre of Thought

The Timbre of Thought

Meiji Tofu in Gardena, CA

This is a short review for Meiji Tofu, a small cash-only tofu store about a thirty minute drive south of LA (https://goo.gl/maps/pEZYQzWqWR55uAa8A). I really like their product! It's a pretty unique business. There aren't a lot of shops in the USA that sell only tofu direct

My bastardized central american meal

typically when I make this it's: * fried plantains * guacamole * black beans & white rice * fried egg (certified humane) * chips and salsa This also works well with steak, or another dish of e.g. peppers and mushrooms. plantains: after removing the skin and slicing, just pan fry on each side in coconut

Authentic Relating at LAR 10/26

Use this as a reference for the games we will play tonight. The first two are variations of two games we played at the previous LAR authentic relating meetup. The last game is new for LAR but is found in multiple authentic relating manuals available online. The goal of this

How Asia Works at LAR

Comprehension Questions These are only about what the text says, not whether the text's claims are true (save that for the Discussion part). Try to move through these briskly, and don't be afraid to nudge your group to the next question. Please preface all of these questions with "according to

The Gervais Principle at LAR

Comprehension Questions (discuss these first): According to the reading: * In the Loser/Clueless/Sociopath idea, what makes a Loser a "loser"? * In your own words, as concisely as possible (one or two sentences), what are the Clueless "clueless" about? * In the MacLeod "Life Cycle of the Firm", why are there

Infohazard warning for The Gervais Principle

I think The Gervais Principle (by Venkatesh Rao) may be an infohazard for some, and I want to give you fair warning. In particular, if you work in more of a blue-collar environment, or in a large organization with layers of bureaucrats or middle managers, I think that reading The

Clips from The Office referenced in The Gervais Principle

Venkatesh Rao's Gervais Principle is an enlightening take on human organizational structure. When I first read it in 2014, I had never seen The Office. Moreover, I assumed it wasn't worth seeing. I associated the show with kids from my high school gym class... wearing "Dunder Mifflin" t-shirts, and constantly

Grabby Aliens at LAR

At the most basic level, the entire Grabby Aliens idea turns on the deduction that humans "seem early". To quote from The Paper: > we are roughly at least 10% “surprisingly early” for (n, L̄) combinations... And these are all very restrictive limits on planet lifetimes. Modest increases in power n

How Can Unilateral Action Lead to Collective Change?

Last week, I tweeted the following: Zach Aysan [https://www.zachaysan.com] encouraged me to develop these ideas further, and I do believe this issue warrants more discussion than a few tweets. This post is my attempt to formalize the idea with some concrete examples. Prior Art Before getting into

Dependency Injection in Ember.js - Boston Ember Meetup Feb. 2017

To view my slides from this talk, please visit: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lo-Xe0NNiZOBAp3V9B1Al1f1eIyB6YvExgaEyBi_1Yw/edit?usp=sharing Cheers, Max

Kitcho (吉兆) Taipei (the return)

(Back to Kitcho, this time with Mom and Dad!) The below are the dishes I remember and/or took pictures of. It's possible I missed a dish since this time I was less fastidious about recording each course we ate (more focused on enjoying). Amuse-bouche: Ginkgo nuts with a sparse

Kitcho (吉兆) Taipei

Sharing photos and notes from our 4000NTD omakase dinner in March 2018

On the title

The full quote is "To iterate is human, to recurse divine" as originally expressed by L Peter Deutsch [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Peter_Deutsch]. I don't know the original context, nor can I find it with a bit of searching.