Tim Urban

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Don't knock it till you've tried it Altwork

A friend of ours was like “hey my ducks laid eggs can I leave the eggs with you while I’m gone for a month” and we were like sure why not. And now there are a lot of baby ducks here and we have literally no idea what we’re doing.

Turns out the Vision Pro remained a big part of my life after the honeymoon phase. It's just really great for a writer. I write every day in some beautiful place, on a movie theater-sized screen, totally immersed. Much more inspiring than my office and really helps with focus.

Update: I still have no idea what I'm doing, the ducks still have no idea what they're doing, but there are nine now.

The plight is real [IG: georgis_garage.gg]

The new widescreen view in Vision Pro is so sick. Giant curved 40-foot screen on the beach.

My space nerd indoctrination program is on track

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Incredible display of zealot's corner

22 tweets from 2022 that might blow your mind: Let's start with what a water droplet looks like at 6,000fps. [nac Image Technology]

A video being shown to all 5th graders at elementary schools in my hometown of Newton, MA.

When you see the lines moving horizontally, they’re yellow. When you see them moving vertically, they’re red and green. (Illusion by Haruaki Fukuda)

Friend of mine, one second later: “That’s gotta be the biggest thing humanity has ever caught.”

Recreation of the 4am spiral that just took me from a tweet about zeppelins to the tracing of JP Morgan’s lineage back to Jesus’s cousin. This is why you should never open Twitter when you wake up in the middle of the night.

It's conventional wisdom that focusing too much on work / ambition / wealth isn't the optimal way to live a happy life. Turns out there's an actual chemical explanation for why: Max Joseph

Life is all about tradeoffs

Met my first sloth and the slowness is just unreal

I went to Russia, Japan, Nigeria, Iraq, and Greenland and asked people what they'd wish for if they found a genie.

What I saw in Bhutan, the mysterious kingdom of the Himalayas:

Super chimpanzee servants aside, this is a very impressive job by Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future at the 1964 World's fair.

Timeline cleanse The Unveiled

Imagine how bad it would be to be lost here