Strongest of strong agree. Related, I also suggest Rodney Mullen’s talk “on getting up again” The best skateboarders fall down the most? Why? Because they try the hardest tricks and tricks that haven’t been done before and thus fall down the most. youtu.be/DBbmNAZWq-E?si=qzzF…

With all the AI bullshit happening right now, but also the incredible promise of human AI collaboration, @MrChuckD and co’s classic track inspired me to write this post and share it with the young’ins who follow me. DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE linkedin.com/posts/billhiggi…

Wrote up my initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 - it has a big model smell: slow, expensive and capable of crunching through pretty much everything I threw at it simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9…

Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!

If you've adopted AI at your company but haven't seen any tangible results, read this 1990 article: "The Dynamo and the Computer" by Paul David. When electricity first arrived, factories that "adopted" it barely got faster. They just swapped the steam engine for an electric one and ran everything else exactly as before: same machine layout, same workflow, same management. Electricity in, no real gains out. The most common mistake with any new technology is to drop it into the old organization and then declare the transformation done. The real leap came decades later, when each machine got its own small motor. Suddenly machines no longer had to be lined up around one central drive shaft. They could be rearranged around the actual flow of work. The productivity gains didn't come from electricity. They came from REDESIGNING THE ENTIRE FACTORY around it. AI is the same. Bolting it onto your existing process gets you a faster steam engine. The payoff comes when you redesign the work itself. (link to paper in comments)

I was given a sneak peak at some badass SDD content by my good friend @BillHiggins and now I have something to prove. Architecture is a writing skill. Stack reasoning is the thinking underneath it. The LLM is the execution layer. Now I'm testing all three, publicly. 12 weeks, 5 phases and my app podme.netlify.app is the proving ground. The app store is the finish line. week 1 starts now. 🧵 #buildinpublic Follow along here or on linkedin. (links below).

This is so true. What people fail to realize is that when new technology tools become available, they tend to be used to create new capabilities up the stack, while down the stack, archaeological layers of technology remain.

This Knicks season for me compares to the suspense and dominance of The 1986 @Mets a team HARD TO KILL . I don’t even remember a moment coming close maybe the Giants over The Patriots in New York Sports the past 40 years

Wrote a post inspired by @realchriswebber linkedin.com/posts/billhiggi…

"Cognitive surrender is when you stop thinking altogether and blindly accept the answer the AI gives you"

RT @MichaelEMann: "Can AI Help Combat the Climate Crisis?" | Nice piece in @Penn #OmniaMagazine featuring @Penn student Anya Draves (w/ a k…

Easiest $300 I spent all year. There are also less expensive and free options. This is great leadership on the part of @CharlotteAlter and highly aligned with my views on AI. Cc @timoreilly @toddlew @nicolefv @jonobacon

"Life speeds up after 25 - Every year goes by faster & faster" While this CAN be true...few realize it's 100% optional There is a way to dramatically: > slow down time perception > Ride an upward spiral of AWE & Bliss > Experience 100x more novel stimuli than you would when in your default state of mind (Even if you're in a place you've been 10,000x before) What is the default state of mind? It's subtly projecting a "known" past onto the unknowable present Tangibly this feels like that dull "this shit again" adult creep that makes life feel dissatisfying This is a PROCESS that activates whenever we're not actively tuning into the present moment A process that creates TENSION in the body It feels like being in a constant state of "wanting to get to the other side" of w/e you're doing The sad truth is that most live in this state until they die The problem is if you "know" the world - Nothing's novel anymore Nothing feels fresh, new or exciting You are, in essence, day-dreaming 24/7 by projecting the known world onto "what is" in this moment This is an understandable thing to do - As pretty much everyone does it... But when you really look at it - You realize there's a staggering amount of ASSUMPTION that goes into this And it takes EFFORT to maintain this day-dream illusion of "knowing" Example: I was sat in a restaurant a few years back My daughter had just been born My wife and I were tired as hell I was in a slightly muddled state I was rushing through my meal Waiting to get home Suddenly I notice this process going on I recognize that I'm living in this state of "assumption" And I let go & See clearly As if looking for the very first time All of a sudden not only is there this beautiful flow of energy in the body Because I'm not longer unconsciously activating the process of projecting known past on onto unknowable present But there's a sense of complete AWE at the restaurant I'm now in Everything looks insanely HD, bright, colorful...even mystical There's this "humming aliveness" coming from all things I literally tear up at the sheer beauty of this moment Even as I'm sat here now - Typing this - The feeling of my fingers touching the keys is completely novel to me Even blissful To notice the feeling of breath in my nostrils... To feel the cool air in the room All of this is incredibly FRESH That same kind of feeling you get when visiting a foreign country & walking around You're naturally more present - Naturally more in your senses It's like you get a forced leveling up in your degree of PRESENCE/mindfulness But you can literally have this WHENEVER & WHERE EVER All you have to give up is the illusion that you know wtf is going on And learn to somatically "switch off" that process by simply: > relaxing > tuning into your senses > looking around as if seeing for the first time (You are) > immerse yourself in your sensory experience > notice how pleasurable this is > notice how paying attention to the pleasure starts to increase it's intensity > keep immersing yourself in this experience Congrats - You just figured out how to ride an upward spiral of beauty, awe and aliveness (instead of a downward spiral of misery, self-obsession & anxiety) Eventually - Because it's so habitual - You'll switch back into past projection mode That's fine - The option to come back into freshness & awe is always here And I promise you - When you "get" how to do this... You'll experience 1000x more novel stimuli in one hour than you would in 10 years of living on autopilot mode I have no idea how this changes your brain & biology I can tell you with absolute certainty though that this leads to a way of living that eclipses even the awe you felt in childhood And turns life from a dull, mundane chore... To a divine miracle unfolding

The salvation is Project Tapestry thealliance.ai/projects/tape…

NES Punch Out characters come to life! Credit: WastedCortex on YT

Job security from AI comes from this very simple fact. Unless you know if the output is wrong, OK, good, or great, most AI is useless or perhaps damaging And to know that, you need to be somewhat knowledgable And the more expert, discerning, experienced you are, the better

🎉 Very excited to speak at @RenderATL this year! I'll be talking about AI and the web, new features and what the future holds. I get to speak with awesome folks like @kelseyhightower and @techgirl1908. See you there!

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect movie, maybe the only perfect movie. Every scene, every line, every beat propels the story forward.

For more than 50 years, my Dad dreamed of a day when every frame of a major Hollywood film would be captured with IMAX cameras. Tonight, Christopher Nolan spoke beautifully about his friendship with my Dad - and the new Keighley IMAX camera - on The Late Show w/ Colbert.

Programming used to put me into FLOW state often. That’s a big part of why I fell in love with it. Late night missions building games, apps, whatever, it felt great. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has a great quote on this: “The best moments in our lives… occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult or worthwhile.” AI has kind of nuked the personal challenge part of that. I don’t fall into those same FLOW states nearly as often anymore. It’s a strange position to be in because I’m undeniably more productive, but some of the joy is gone. I still love building software, but now the enjoyment comes more from seeing products come to life and have real-world impact than from the actual process of writing the code. I’ll miss the deep flow states that came from fighting code for hours into the night, but I feel like I do need to find new areas that still offer that same sense of challenge.