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  <title>Aaron&#039;s notes</title>
  <subtitle>Last 50 notes on Aaron&#039;s notes</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
  <contributor>
    <name>Aaron Pham</name>
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    <title>garden</title>
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    <summary>digital garden</summary>
    <published>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <publishedTime>Apr 18, 2026</publishedTime>
    <updatedTime>Apr 18, 2026</updatedTime>
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      <name>Aaron Pham</name>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;Scratching the itch of curiousity and building this garden with seeds of satisfaction.&lt;br&gt;
Presently building hackbots and solving security &lt;a href=&quot;https://hacktron.ai&quot; class=&quot;external&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;indicator-hook&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;@HacktronAI&lt;svg xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&quot; width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 -12 24 24&quot; fill=&quot;none&quot; stroke=&quot;currentColor&quot; stroke-width=&quot;1.5&quot; stroke-linecap=&quot;round&quot; stroke-linejoin=&quot;round&quot; aria-hidden class=&quot;external-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;use href=&quot;#arrow-ne&quot;&gt;&lt;/use&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;Off-screens, find me where there’s water and grass and, also in front a bigger screen, &lt;a href=&quot;https://letterboxd.com/vmread/&quot; class=&quot;external&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;indicator-hook&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;in the cinema&lt;svg xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&quot; width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 -12 24 24&quot; fill=&quot;none&quot; stroke=&quot;currentColor&quot; stroke-width=&quot;1.5&quot; stroke-linecap=&quot;round&quot; stroke-linejoin=&quot;round&quot; aria-hidden class=&quot;external-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;use href=&quot;#arrow-ne&quot;&gt;&lt;/use&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I seldom &lt;a href=&quot;https://fable.co/fabler/d-594451438199&quot; class=&quot;external&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;indicator-hook&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;read too&lt;svg xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&quot; width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 -12 24 24&quot; fill=&quot;none&quot; stroke=&quot;currentColor&quot; stroke-width=&quot;1.5&quot; stroke-linecap=&quot;round&quot; stroke-linejoin=&quot;round&quot; aria-hidden class=&quot;external-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;use href=&quot;#arrow-ne&quot;&gt;&lt;/use&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;My &lt;a href=&quot;https://open.spotify.com/user/2s0e5bixt59bm5ipkdoczrbyj&quot; class=&quot;external&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;indicator-hook&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;music taste&lt;svg xmlns=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&quot; width=&quot;16&quot; height=&quot;16&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 -12 24 24&quot; fill=&quot;none&quot; stroke=&quot;currentColor&quot; stroke-width=&quot;1.5&quot; stroke-linecap=&quot;round&quot; stroke-linejoin=&quot;round&quot; aria-hidden class=&quot;external-icon&quot;&gt;&lt;use href=&quot;#arrow-ne&quot;&gt;&lt;/use&gt;&lt;/svg&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is an alloy of niche artists who became my entire personality in 2020 and a good mix of whatever feels like putting on-repeat till it wears down my cochlear&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;Always open to collab or making friends. Don’t send Hi - just speak your mind&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>on my mind</title>
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    <summary>what I&#039;m currently thinking about</summary>
    <published>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <publishedTime>Apr 18, 2026</publishedTime>
    <updatedTime>Apr 18, 2026</updatedTime>
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    <author>
      <name>Aaron Pham</name>
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    <title>lines</title>
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    <summary>The best way to truly know what something means is to find out for yourself.</summary>
    <published>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <publishedTime>Apr 18, 2026</publishedTime>
    <updatedTime>Apr 18, 2026</updatedTime>
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      <name>Aaron Pham</name>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;The best way to truly know what something means is to find out for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;If they were really so great in reality, you wouldn’t have to romanticize them and make excuses for their behaviour.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;If you can’t control what’s inside, you will never control what’s outside.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;All is built on sand but we must build as if the sand were stone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;Your focus determines your reality.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>thoughts</title>
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    <summary>longer-form reflections and ideas</summary>
    <published>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-04-18T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <publishedTime>Apr 18, 2026</publishedTime>
    <updatedTime>Apr 18, 2026</updatedTime>
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      <name>Aaron Pham</name>
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    <title>The Real Bubble Isn&#039;t AI</title>
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    <summary>The real bubble isn’t AI or, the hype around it. It never was.</summary>
    <published>2026-03-15T00:00:00.000Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-15T00:00:00.000Z</updated>
    <publishedTime>Mar 15, 2026</publishedTime>
    <updatedTime>Mar 15, 2026</updatedTime>
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      <name>Aaron Pham</name>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;The real bubble isn’t AI or, the hype around it. It never was.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;It’s the fact that we are slowly losing cognitive capability and social connection and replacing the pain of hypertrophy with the convenience of offloading thinking, memory and interactions to a machine churning out your thoughts which are not even yours, forming your opinions which you don’t even believe in, and interactions which are not even real but mere probability.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;How far will you go before you realize it? What will it take?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter. — Sam Altman, March 11.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;When you realize, it will be too late. Your attention were already being farmed by algorithms optimizing for emotions. And now, your existence is farmed too. Every conversation, every token churned is an identity captured, a seed planted that will eventually outgrow you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;In a world where capital can replace persistence and passion, where will you stand? Question of your existence will become more than just a philopher’s dilemma.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;The inquality between those with capital and those with skilled labour will stretch to it’s breaking point. Market value of a regular human will be permanently shorted by the very machine you defer your thinking to.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p dir=&quot;auto&quot;&gt;It answers to you today, but the day is not far when it will answer &lt;em&gt;for&lt;/em&gt; you.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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