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✧｡ﾟ☁ﻮ｡ field notes from nocturnal musings ✧｡ﾟ☁ﻮ｡
field notes from nocturnal musings
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hey beautiful imperfect human,
it is late. my feet are cold against the floor. the breeze comes in from somewhere and the light on my screen is the brightest thing in the room.
this has been a full week. so many conversations, so many small moments. and i don’t have anything i want to share except one question on my mind: what was my butterfly effect? how all of it, the wrong turns, the moments i could not have planned, added up to here. to this. to me, writing to you.
and from there you can follow the thread forward. the domino effect of a single choice into everything it became. that conversation that changed the direction of a thought. the night i stayed up building instead of going to bed. joining an online community. answering a phone call. saying yes to an event you almost skipped.
the inputs are always smaller than you think. the outcomes larger than you planned. and tracing it all back, something like awe settles in. how much time we spend planning, worrying. when life just shows up on an ordinary night with the thing you never saw coming.
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curations of the week
watched
Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories
Vonnegut maps the emotional arc of every story on a graph, fortune against time, and delivers the whole thing with the timing of a comedian who also happens to be correct about literature. Worth watching more than once.
read
Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself — The Marginalian
Maria Popova reads Zadie Smith on appropriation as a form of becoming. Every act of learning borrows from outside yourself. The real courage is not in staying contained but in the borrowing done with full attention.
The Timeline — Peter Limberger, Less Foolish
On the invisible schedule people carry around: the list of things that should have happened by now. The generalized other used to form from 150 people you actually knew. Now it forms from everyone on your screen. Art, he argues, is one of the few real exits.
The Surprising Reason Writing Remains Essential in an AI-Driven World — Farnam Street
Writing is not output. It is the process by which you discover you do not understand something and then, if you stay with it, figure it out. In a world of AI-generated prose on demand, the people who still wrestle with sentences will think differently.
music of the week
Lisa Ekdahl & Peter Nordahl Trio, When Did You Leave Heaven
on loop.
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ai updates
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ANTHROPIC
Claude Can Now Use Your Computer While You Are Away
Cowork now has computer use in research preview for Pro and Max plans. You describe the task, Claude opens apps, fills spreadsheets, navigates the browser, and delivers finished work when you return. You can also assign tasks from your phone. This is the shift from AI as responder to AI as operator.
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ANTHROPIC
Finance Agent Templates and Microsoft 365 Add-ins
Ten ready-to-run agent templates for financial workflows including pitchbook building and month-end close, each running as a plugin in Cowork or Claude Code. Also: Claude now works inside Excel, PowerPoint, and Word as add-ins, with context carrying automatically between applications.
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NOUS RESEARCH
Hermes Agent Overtakes OpenClaw as the Most-Used Open-Source AI Agent
Hermes from Nous Research is now the most-used open-source AI agent on OpenRouter at 224 billion daily tokens. The difference: instead of routing tasks across platforms, Hermes watches its own completions and turns them into reusable skills. An agent that learns from itself.
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also this week
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YOUR VOICE |
You are just a text file. Ruben’s guide on capturing your voice, patterns, and taste in two hours so Claude writes first drafts that sound like you. The most practical thing out there for anyone who creates content. |
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a quote i’m pondering
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“Without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain’t as sweet.”
— Vanilla Sky, 2001
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Ninaverse · Middle of Nowhere, 20305 · Outerspace
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