I really enjoyed this video on network science from the #Veritasium YouTube channel. These are some fun and important ideas for living in the modern world, and it's also a great explanation for why the #fediverse works.

Turns out, how quickly information and behavior spread in a community have a lot to do with the structure of the network. This video has some fun interviews with the researchers who discovered the math that describes these phenomena, along with some great online demos!

This stuff is pretty fundamental for understanding society and how it changes, especially in the age of the internet, where we see fundamentally different dynamics than what our species and societies evolved with.

Also, to my small world: if you know someone who knows someone who works on Veritasium, reaching them could be a good way to spread the word on why federated servers are a good idea. 

researcher: we gave people $1000/month and measured happiness

me: and?

researcher: they were happier

me: surprised pikachu face

every "life-changing" productivity system is just:

- write things down
- look at what you wrote
- do those things

we've reinvented the todo list 47 times

The QNX Operating System (www.abortretry.fail)

Link: https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-qnx-operating-system
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481892

Simplify your planning with easy, fun #iPhone shortcuts to four #Obsidian files. Stay on top of notes, tasks, calendar, and daily goals without complex apps.

It’s powerful to know that when I see a particular piece of information, be it a repeating task or calendar event, *I* put it there. Not some repeat-every-second-week button in an app. *Me*. I trust my manual system more than I trusted apps to get it right. #ptpl

Medium https://medium.com/@miscellaneplans/how-i-get-instant-access-to-the-four-text-files-that-run-my-life-26336eb22414
Blog https://ellanew.com/2025/10/06/ptpl-176-simple-obsidian-iphone-shortcuts