HeyJaredThe Magic Lantern
The Magic Lantern Podcast was created by VH Mansurian, self published author of the book God of All My Creation. Mansurian grew up in a tough neighborhood idolizing film and stories. Once he made it out of the slums of Los Angeles he realized there was
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A Writer Takes the Long Way Home (opens the original)
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A writer leaves home to buy bread and comes back with a question.At the bakery, a man orders two coffees, then corrects himself. One. The woman behind the counter reaches for a smaller bag without asking why.Crab in a Bucket is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary
A Crab in a Bucket (opens the original)
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Why They’ll Always Pull You Down to Their LevelYou tell someone you’re writing a book. They ask how many people actually make money doing that.You start taking your health seriously. Suddenly, you’re “obsessed.”Crab in a Bucket is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1" t
The Facebook Problem (opens the original)
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Let’s go back in time. Not too far back, we want to stop around the 1990s. My teen years. The years when owning a computer was becoming normal. The ones with the not so big screens and yet they took up half your desk space. The kind of computers that connected to this new tech called the internet. And this internet could connect anyone anywhere, if they happened to find each other. There was no broadband yet. The modems connected through the phone line and they made that AOL familiar sound and c
Is A.I. making you stupider (opens the original)
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at the lowest hardware level, all programming is ultimately converted into 1s and 0s. However, humans almost never write code using just 1s and 0s anymore. Modern programming relies on layers of translation to turn human-readable text into these binary signals. High-Level Languages (Human Layer): Programmers write code using languages like Python, Java, or C++. These languages use English words, math symbols, and logical structures (e.g., if, while, print). Think about that for a second, if we p
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