June 8, 2025

Weekly Distractions for June 8, 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

• 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

• The Bitter Past by Bruce Borgos

• The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins