TIL lobsters aren’t immortal, but they are weirdly close to it. If they live to be a certain size, they reach the top of the food chain. At that point, they continue shedding their exoskeleton until it takes too much energy to do so, at which point they more or less die of exhaustion. Jellyfish really are immortal though.

This is a good Wikipedia 25th anniversary post.

This movie’s trailer makes it seem like it’s going to be a classic love triangle. It’s much more complex than that. It’s the first honest confrontation of modern dating that I’ve seen, and a recognition of the intangibility of love. Celine Song delivers her message beautifully and directly, wrapped up in an elegant rom-com with all the right notes.

https://letterboxd.com/jayhoffmann/film/materialists

I remain thinking about slowing down. How to find the time to feel creative. Some of this is, of course, seasonal. As we get closer to one of the bigger launches I’ve ever done, it’s feeling like just a lot. So now isn’nt necesarrily the best time to plan this and I think as I get to my next season I will feel as if I have more time.

But now is a good time to prepare. And that’s what I aim to do.

via Chris Krycho 

An important reminder that writing is thinking, even when it comes to commit messages.

I have sometimes written detailed messages I did not end up needing (yet!) but I have never regretted it, because I don’t know when writing whether I will need it, and if I do, I cannot go back in time to have written it. Better to spend a little extra time writing down something I may not end up needing than to rush past that opportunity and lose it forever.

As usual, eevee gets right to the heart of it. All you get from this new fancy tech is… whatever

via JA Westenberg

Tolerance for ambiguity, boredom, and discomfort had atrophied in me. Modern life conditions us to flinch from them: which makes sitting in the ambiguity without reaching for distraction a radical act of reclamation. One Sunday I spent three hours writing by hand about a single question: “What does it mean to think originally?” I got nowhere. Every path ended in a hedge or a cliché. But that was the point. I was learning how to stay with a question even when it refused to yield.

Chris Hayes has kind of a spot on analysis here about the division between the old guard and the new.