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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The End of Optimization

Freddie Mercury

(Side note: Interesting overview on Passkeys.)

A follow-up to my earlier post, "Idiot or Fanatic," this post, "Optimizing Ourselves to Death" from Of Dollars and Data is worth a quick read. 

If you've read Losingyou're familiar with some of my regrets along these lines, particularly that the work I did for decadeson balance, made the world worse. But I also obsessed over every penny. Literally -- I worried that I wasn't getting enough use out of individual Q-tips. Oy.

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