Aneesh Sathe

Font fight! # The fonts have assembled, their ligatures sharp their curves are shiny. They all line up with perfect kerning… or do they? Your eyes and mind are their battlefield. https://www.codingfont.com/ I got JetBrains mono btw. Decentralization is just partial centralization # Renée DiResta writes about the social media flux in Noema. Decentralization places a heavy burden on individual instance administrators, mostly volunteers, who may lack the tools, time or capacity to address complex problems effectively.

Crystal-Bison # I don’t want to give away much of the poem but it captures the nature, ferocity, and purpose of life. Ghost Exits # Aligning with the idea that blogs will be the last of the [good internet](http://Jan. 3, 2025) there is a broader question about platforms and their methods. Long before meta and X abandoned all pretense the internet was already under attack while we were believed this was fine.

Few ideas capture the collective human imagination more powerfully than the notion of a “universal library”—a singular repository of all recorded knowledge. From the grandeur of the Library of Alexandria to modern digital initiatives, this concept has persisted as both a philosophical ideal and a practical challenge. Miroslav Kruk’s 1999 paper, “The Internet and the Revival of the Myth of the Universal Library,” revitalizes this conversation by highlighting the historical roots of the universal library myth and cautioning against uncritical technological utopianism. Today, as Wikipedia and …

Leading with Kindness # PDF kindly made available by the author, Steve Swensen - via Helen Bevan on Bluesky. Steve Swensen held leadership positions at Mayo Clinic ensuring not just improving care but also preventing burnout. This paper from May 2024 provides leaders with a framework to help colleagues do better and “Kindness is helping people do better.” That colleague or work environment that creates stress and anxiety have a very real impact on your health and long-term well-being. An organization can improve team health by creating space for “nurturing human conditions” to emerge:

Agents Are Not Enough # Last year I was heavily experimenting with Knowledge Graphs because it’s been clear that LLMs by themselves fall short because of the lack of knowledge. This paper by Chirag Shah and Ryen White (you can click the heading above) from Dec 2024 expands on those shortcomings by exploring not just knowledge but also value generation, personalization, and trust. They open the paper by casting a very wide definition of an “agent” everything from thermostats to LLM tools. While this seems facetious at first, their next point is interesting. Agents by definition “remove agency …