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🔗 The Leclerc lap that’s exposed how F1 2026 has ruined qualifying
But, as he blasted down the back straight, he ran out of deployment much earlier than he expected and all the gains he had made earlier in the lap were wiped away.
The final Q3 run of 1m32.528s was an improvement on his earlier 1m32.732s effort. But after winding up seventh on the grid as others made bigger steps forward, he understood that it should have been so much better.
And he knew instantly on that back straight before the lap was complete that things had gone wrong.
“What the hell is happening?” he said over the team radio. “This deployment, my god.”
The answer only came up after some deeper analysis of telemetry.
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đź”— This is not the computer for you - Sam Henri Gold
Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one. That is not how obsession works. Obsession works by taking whatever is available and pressing on it until it either breaks or reveals something. The machine’s limits become a map of the territory. You learn what computing actually costs by paying too much of it on hardware that can barely afford it.
I know this because I was running Final Cut Pro X on a 2006 Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB RAM and 120GB of spinning rust. I was nine. I had no business doing this. I did it every day after school until my parents made me go to bed.
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đź”— Always read the footnotes
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đź”— Creating Space
We don’t have unlimited time or energy, but we can better spend the limited time that we have.
That’s why: Focus.
Decisions are easy when you have only one priority. Your destination is a huge mountain peak on the horizon. You can see it from everywhere. Yes to that mountain, and no to everything else. You’ll always know where you’re going, and what you’re doing next. All paths go either towards that mountain or away from it.
Because of this perspective, problems won’t deter you. Most people look down at the ground, upset by every obstacle. With your eyes on the horizon, you’ll step over obstacles, undeterred.
- Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No
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🔗 A Lament For Aperture, The App We’ll Never Get Over Losing
It’s hard to overstate quite how revolutionary and smooth this flow is until you had it for multiple years before having it taken away. Nothing on the market — even over a decade later — is this good at meeting you where you are and not interrupting your flow.
Especially that book example. My Lord. When Aperture was discontinued (well, when it stopped working properly after an OS update or two) I moved over to Adobe Lightroom (now Lightroom Classic) which had separate modules for file management, editing, and books — switching modules was such a slow and clunky processes, I swear nearly threw my computer out the window trying to colour match photos on a book page.
However, when it gets to the point where we as humans need to use our computers as tools to get stuff done, I think we have stagnated over the past few years. When preparing for this post I was excited to fire up Aperture and experience it again, but after less than ten minutes of using it I was getting grumpy — here I am, sitting at a thirteen-year old computer, and I’m flying through my photos faster than I ever do on modern machines. Why is this not possible now?
Aperture’s technical brilliance is remarkable in how quiet it is. There’s no BEHOLD RAINBOW SPARKLE ANIMATIONS WHILE THE AI MAKES AUNT JANICE LOOK LIKE AN ANTHROPOMORPHISED CARROT, just an understated dedication to making the tool you’re using work for you in exactly the way you want to work.
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