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Nov 02, 2021
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Does your brain do the thing when you go to be thinking about a big problem, then when you fall asleep your brain just continues to solve? Well, last night I was “sick” and while sleeping my brain did that thing times 10. Negative sleep lead to positive progress on this project. Unsurprisingly, I don’t have anything tangible, since brains don’t take notes for you… yet.

So, here’s a brief sketch of various aspects of this project I know about so far. This whole concept is shaping up to be pretty interconnected, and there was no great way to organize this list so you wouldn’t have to read 2+ times. You know what they say, “Anything worth doing is worth doing twice”1:

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