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  "title": "Miscellanea for 2025-09-18",
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  "date": "2025-09-19T06:59:00.000Z",
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  "html": "<ul>\n<li>Hello world!</li>\n<li>I should write something here, just to get something written.</li>\n<li>I seem to join discord servers aspirationally like I used to buy domain names</li>\n<li>Just found this <a href=\"https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin\">Obsidian Kindle Plugin</a> that does what it says on the tin.<ul>\n<li>I've read a lot on a Kindle over the past 10 years at least.</li>\n<li>But, my pace has accelerated lately since I've reliably carved out 30 minutes every weekday morning to ride an exercise bike and read while I'm doing it.</li>\n<li>The highlight feature always seemed neat but pointless, because I never really looked into how to uplift that data into some other system.</li>\n<li>But, this plugin did a nice job of pulling down all the highlights and notes from books I've read on my Kindle.</li>\n<li>So now, I have nice markdown files for all my books, ready to copy/paste into blog posts if I manage to motivate myself to do it.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>Apropos of that plugin, I just finished reading <a href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/\"><em>Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI</em> by Ethan Mollick</a>—maybe I should try collecting some highlights and thoughts around that?<ul>\n<li>Probably worth its own standalone post, rather than trying to clutter up a miscellanea post like this.</li>\n<li>Off the top of my head, I thought this book was pretty great. Neither selling doom nor hype, rather realistic about where AI was at, circa April 2024.</li>\n<li>That said, it all still applies now in September 2025, but it's worth noting that this stuff is still moving fast—I don't think we've quite hit the flattening of the <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function\">S-curve</a> yet. <ul>\n<li>Though, I do think we will find that flattening—and will have found that this stuff isn't a hockey stick.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n",
  "body": "\n- Hello world!\n- I should write something here, just to get something written.\n- I seem to join discord servers aspirationally like I used to buy domain names\n- Just found this [Obsidian Kindle Plugin](https://github.com/hadynz/obsidian-kindle-plugin) that does what it says on the tin.\n\t- I've read a lot on a Kindle over the past 10 years at least.\n\t- But, my pace has accelerated lately since I've reliably carved out 30 minutes every weekday morning to ride an exercise bike and read while I'm doing it.\n\t- The highlight feature always seemed neat but pointless, because I never really looked into how to uplift that data into some other system.\n\t- But, this plugin did a nice job of pulling down all the highlights and notes from books I've read on my Kindle.\n\t- So now, I have nice markdown files for all my books, ready to copy/paste into blog posts if I manage to motivate myself to do it.\n- Apropos of that plugin, I just finished reading [*Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI* by Ethan Mollick](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741805/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick/)—maybe I should try collecting some highlights and thoughts around that?\n\t- Probably worth its own standalone post, rather than trying to clutter up a miscellanea post like this.\n\t- Off the top of my head, I thought this book was pretty great. Neither selling doom nor hype, rather realistic about where AI was at, circa April 2024.\n\t- That said, it all still applies now in September 2025, but it's worth noting that this stuff is still moving fast—I don't think we've quite hit the flattening of the [S-curve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function) yet. \n\t\t- Though, I do think we will find that flattening—and will have found that this stuff isn't a hockey stick.",
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