reflections The Diderot Effect Came for My Television The problem with coveting a $2K TV stand. On Happiness and the Rat Race.
reflections Your Thinking Has an Org Chart Use NotebookLM to Ground. Use Claude or Gemini or ChatGPT to reason or ideate.
reflections The Room With the Bay Windows I bought a book today. Off eBay, secondhand, $7.31, a title I'd been circling for a while: Designology, by Sally Augustin, who is an environmental psychologist by trade and whose whole argument is that the rooms you live in are quietly doing something to you whether you&
Book Reviews The Man Who Was Never Asked On Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi, with J.R. Moehringer (2009) I'd never have picked this up book on my own. I heard Sam talking about the book on the My First Million podcast and ordered it from the library that evening, which is very nearly the
Investing A retirement quiz you'll want to fail now, not later I've built a retirement planner. It's free, it lives at planner.sebastianantony.com, and I'll tell you all about it — but not before you've earned it. Six questions first. They're the six questions the app was built to answer, and
Investing The Senior Portfolio Planner: what's under the bonnet This is the technical companion to my retirement-quiz post. The Senior Portfolio Planner is a free retirement modelling app in four parts: Parts 1–3 live in the planner itself, and Part 4 ships as Ballast (ballast.sebastianantony.com), a standalone companion that runs the deepest analysis on a
Art Art from week 1, Aug 2026 Aug 7th, Hidden The Hider 0:00 /0:00 1× Aug 6th, Brand new Like a Version0:00/189.6801671× Aug 5, Destiny Foreseen0:00/219.1209791× Aug 4, Proud to be Aug 3, this is a box Your browser does not support the video tag. Aug 2, AAA Aug
bookreviews Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity David Bessis, translated by Kevin Frey — a book report David Bessis wants to tell you a secret that he insists is not a secret at all: mathematics is not a gift, it is a private practice of building pictures in your head, and anyone willing to sit with confusion long
Art Art from week 5, July 2026 July 25th, Selfie Time July 26th It's a Raccoon Somebodys Been Feeding Him0:00/194.6409791× July 27th Bubble Gum July 28th, My Hero July 29th. Martial Arts July 30th. Feel the power
AI-art Art from week 4, July 2026 July 20th. A bottle of .. A Bottle of Whiteout0:00/204.6401671× July 21st. Tiny sheep Sweet Dreams are made of Sheep 0:00 /0:00 1× Epic aerial photograph, tens of thousands of tiny fluffy white sheep arranged with astonishing precision on a vast green hillside to form a
News An APPle a Day... ( does NOT necessarily keep the doctor away, because today I met my new cardiologist in Florida. ) However, on average I have also shipped one App every day the past two weeks I would like the record to show that I am doing my part. Two weeks ago, I started vibe
Critbooth & Educare65 I vibeCoded two mini apps this week, and on paper they have nothing to do with each other. One critiques your floor plan or interior/room designs. The other helps you make sense of Medicare. Stay with me, because there's a single idea underneath both. Lately I keep
AI-art Art from week 3, July 2026 July 19th. A Royal Pigeon Rhinestone Coo Boy 0:00 /0:00 1× Thanks to Cliff from Germany for advice on crafting the song's style.. July 18th. A pumpkin spaceship Major Gourd 0:00 /0:00 1× July 17th. A haunted ice cream truck July 16th. A bird
reflections Confessions of an Appaholic Starting in 2017, I started buying and hoarding many, many iOS apps, the maturity in photo and video editing. Towards the end I had accumulated about 400 apps, and I used to say that I was an "appaholic". I sort of lost interest in iOS apps in 2022
BS Sebland Speaks No More It started, as some of the best things this year have, with Nigel. He sent me a video for one of the daily challenges — my own face, cast as a talking bust behind the glass of an old arcade fortune-telling machine, the orange cabinet, a little pile of gold
