June 1, 2025

Weekly Distractions for June 1, 2025

🧠 Links

• Long Read

  • About the Ed Thorp of Horse Race Betting

  AI

  • Claude 4 System Prompts

  • Ya pingpong is adjacent and its fun video.

  Blog

  • This guy’s blog makes me look lame.

  Security

  • Cliff Stoll being a quirky genius

  Poetry

  • Seamus Heaney

  • A Poem for Deep Thinkers (video)

  Books

  • Yet Another Booklist (thanks John)

📖 Currently Reading

• The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

• The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos

• Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• A Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands: A Novel by Sarah Brooks