I think it’s important to intentionally digest content in the vast sea of information we have nowadays. There’s so much content floating around, that the ones that you consciously choose are pieces that call out your name and seemingly become a part of you.
This page will serve as a recorded digest or personal algorithm for what I consume on a monthly basis. Each addition is organized in ascending-sequential order and will include a description of what I think about it.
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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Glad to be ending the month off with this essay. Overall, it helped me rework existential frameworks that I had and sharpened my general reasoning ability. I’ve read The Concept of Anxiety by Kierkegaard earlier this year, it was comical to see Camus shit on him for half the essay. I always had a weird feeling about “the leap” and didn’t really understand it. Reading this essay helped with understanding that and other uncertainties of my own that I couldn’t verbalize. This quote summarizes the essay perfectly:
“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics—in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.”
on making soul friends | ep 91 by Christine
Short and sweet video. It’s nice to have someone verbalize and create a framework for what you’ve experienced. In this case; “a wall” for relationships. Not boundaries, but stopping points of intimacy based on compatibility and timing.
Vampire Girl and A Bleak Table by Simon
Are funny reads when read together. Japan kinda crazy. Go white boy go!
HYTALE IS SAVED!
Yay, I’m very glad. They spent 4 years on a multi-platform engine to just abandon it. Shoutout to Riot for giving the game back to them, I’m excited to play it next year! I’ve been following Hytale for so long.
Wraiths of Silicon Valley by Simon by Simon
This white boy keeps speaking his truth. It made me reflect a bit on my career journey. I was certainly going becoming a husk if I continued the way I was going. After reading this and other supplemental reads, I think I’m chill now, touching grass and letting people love me.
“I’m publishing this because if there’s one of me, surely there are more of me. I want this to be a wakeup call for the Husks out there. Working hard for a bit is fine, often necessary, but if you’ve done it wrong and for too long, and you feel like “I just need to achieve XYZ, and then I’ll finally be happy,” you’re wrong. You will not be happy. Please do not waste your life for this. There are people out there who want to love you. Let them.”
GUERLAIN - ENCENS MYTHIQUE review edp perfume - Les Absolus D’Orient fragrance
A mutual of mine has this fragrance so I decided to look up a review, I didn’t know fragrance enthusiast went this hard. This video transported me to another world, or rather a part I’ve never seen before. The reviewer verbalizes artistry into descriptions that would fit a novel. Such a fun watch, I wish I could smell it though.
The Fractal Apocalypse by Simon
This white boy has a way with words. On the relevant topic of modern media consumption and psyops.
“I imagine near-to-death Boomers hooked up to 24/7 AI Fox News, servings of dopamine delivered straight to their brains via Neuralink each time they raise their arms in amen for another segment of Shrimp Jesus Takes On The Wokes. Meanwhile in the Skinner box next door, an iPad Baby of Gen Alpha, now in his twenties, is entering his 37th consecutive day of gooning to Hentai Cocomelon.”
Here’s What’s Next in Agentic Coding by seconds0
A really interesting of insight on where agentic coding is going. Apparently this guy gives insight to people at Cursor which is cool. He talks about me in here, the person who is scared of the agent from auto completing. It made me try it, it’s not bad, but I can feel my brain deteriorating not gonna lie. I think to fully utilize and be comfortable with the agent, one must be senior or already have built the tasked structure by hand before. This is my first time building something like this, so I’ll just stick with using LLMs as concept engines. Don’t get me wrong, it’s really good for coding things and grabbing contexts that are mundane. Overall, this guy speaks truth.
“The developer of 2023 couldn’t imagine Cursor. The developer of 2024 couldn’t imagine Codex. We today can’t grasp the paradigm that emerges in 2026. The degree to which they’ll translate intent into working code will be mind-blowing.”
Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems? by Mark Humphries
Cool to see AI being used to translate historical documents. This was a good reminder that handwriting back in the day was shockingly unreadable but pretty. Google is cooking with Gemini 3.0.
“…not just performing text recognition: it is demonstrating an understanding of the economic and cultural systems in which those records were produced”
Chainsaw Man Movie: Reze Arc
Is Harry Potter for weebs. The music carries the movie so much, especially during the pool scene. It’s been so long since I last read the manga and the Reze arc.
AMERICA LIVE IN CENTRAL PARK 1979 FULL CONCERT HD
Perfectly captures the rosy era that the 70s and 80s was in the states with music and aesthetics. I can’t help myself from being nostalgic of a time that I never lived. To be a boomer that uses Facebook, damn.
kimj - KOREAN AMERICAN
Korean Skrillex. What else can I say? This korean guy rocks. He produced for Effie, SEBii, damazein, The Deep, and jackzebra. Dude’s a legend in the making, mark my fucking words, he’s so talented. This is what happens when you give a korean: abelton, many cases.
Giving Up Caffeine by Stephan Snyman
I forgot how I came across this, but I just found it interesting since I had a caffeine addiction too. I drank so much caffeine that it made me extremely unproductive, that I was drinking caffeine to reach baseline performance—I was experiencing reverse withdrawals. It’s funny how he experimented with abstinence and it had no effect on him. Quite the opposite for me.
What is “good taste” in software engineering?, Great software design looks underwhelming, and Everything I know about good system design by Sean Goedecke
Good insight on software engineering; using the right tools for the specific problem and opting in for simplicity. I think it’s just cool to see what veterans think. It baffled me when he mentions that there are engineers that very opinionated on problem solving rather than being nuanced.
“I’m not a plumber, but I imagine good plumbing is similar: if you’re doing something too exciting, you’re probably going to end up with crap all over yourself.”
Kipply’s Digest | Jul-Oct 2025
Is what inspired me to have my own digest!
learn to code with llms? i read a bunch of learning science so you don’t have to by Max Mynter
Confirmed my bias on using LLMs as concept engines and teachers rather than slot machines. Inevitably they’ll get more intelligent and wise where I’ll be obsolete. Whatever, I’d rather have fun and learn than to hedge against myself.
Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab — 18 Months of Strategic Career Development by Max Mynter
Excellent information for career chasing. I’m super glad Max Mynter posted his process.
unease by Ava
Made me ponder about ephemerality. She describes pain of living for yourself with no given narrative from the world. I find it rather blissful nowadays, but the thought really cuts deep. It also made me listen to Lana Del Ray intentionally, the songs don’t stab you hard when you’re a straight man.
The Three Body Problem
Is an amazing science fiction book that brought me back into reading novels in general. The latest sci-fi I digested beforehand was Brave New World and of course Star Wars, so this hit like a truck with how cool the plot and technology were. I plan to finish the 3BP series later.