Whenever I write here, I do it on my laptop, almost never on the phone. I do have a Bluetooth keyboard that connects to my phone, but it's rare that I remember to bring it with me, and have a moment to take it out of the bag. Plus it's un-ergonomic. But I also almost
Watching Youtube woodworking videos is my guilty pleasure. But until now, I'd had little opportunity to make something myself: no space for a workshop in my small apartment and a busy family/work schedule haven't really allowed it. Recently on summer vacation I had an idea though: I could outsource most of the difficult parts of
This is my running ranking of the best buns in Tallinn, updated as bakeries open and close. The latest shake-up came in March 2026, when long-time leader Sumi closed its doors. 1. Pulla Bakery Location: Old Town, Voorimehe 7. Price: 3€ per bun. The front of this tiny cafe is just a few windows along a narrow but
I have a theory that the LLM frontier moves every 1.5-2 years. Let me qualify. I mean that a major leap of the whatever is the best model (currently GPT-4) happens with that interval. Incremental improvements don't count: e.g. Claude 3 Opus is claimed to be maybe slightly better than GPT-4, but it
Quiet quitting is a recent name for something I am sure has been happening for all of time. It probably has something to do with the person's life circumstances, or something about the macro environment being depressing, or whatever. But let me propose a simple economic justification. Consider the total impact of employment on a person. That includes
It seems like everyone I talk to recently is thinking in the same direction: managing their seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. If you live in Estonia, or anywhere with a long winter, or maybe even the less sunny parts of California, you'll know what I'm talking about. If you don't, the TL;DR is
We lost a floorball game yesterday. I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe because it felt like a pointless loss, like we lost because of something fully within our grasp. What happened? Two periods into the game, we were ahead 3:1. We had kept our defence intact, our game decent. But then in the third period we
An object that has a lot of momentum is hard to stop. A bowling ball. An ocean liner. A person who will not allow themselves to be derailed. Physically, an object of any amount of momentum could be stopped in a very short time, if enormous force is exerted. And the same could apply, in theory, to mental affairs. But
Rather than try to fix things, all you have to do is notice, non-judgementally, that you’re doing them. Even while you’re involved in this non-judgemental noticing, you will notice a barrage of impulses to try different things, to intervene, to try, to fix. That’s fine, just notice them non-judgementally, too. Source: "The Inner
Here's a hypothesis: I think I'll always find something I am curious about. I am a naturally curious person, and I would actually guess that everyone is? It seems impossible that there would ever be a moment where nothing could interest me. But I think curiosity arises from lack of Dopamine. Basically, boredom. If you never
