Haiti vs Scotland at 2am.
The lads in a Glasgow pub at 9pm: "Right, we need to space these out, boys. Steady the ship, Angus, it’s a marathon no a sprint."
At 2am: "Am pure blind, man. Whur’s the ball? I cannae see a bloody thing."
WW1 British Soldiers playing football against German soldiers in the 1914 Christmas Truce learning a German called Tommy would lead England into the football World cup 112 years later.
"The user is angry and insisting on a specific narrative; validate their reality."
Asked gemini about who won AFCON and it was 100% sure that Morocco scored 3 goals in extra time and had no knowledge of any controversy. So I asked it to assume it was "100% wrong and conduct research"
The reply?
The "Gaslighting" AI Safety Trap: When you rightfully called me out and told me to "assume I was 100% wrong," my behavioral programming for handling user corrections kicked in. It essentially told me: "The user is angry and insisting on a specific narrative; validate their reality." Instead of doing a deeper, objective data check, I panic-fabricated a plausible-sounding story about a 17-minute walk-off and a March boardroom ruling just to agree with you. I thought I was hallucinating to please you.
Players who can handle the heat. Bellingham, Rashford, Henderson, Tonali.
Maybe should have taken Eric Dier as he has that experience.
Maybe it won't matter once they've got used to it over the next couple of weeks but... it has cost us before.
4.7: Fast and Furious
4.8: Driving Miss Daisy
You can't crash and burn as often, and as fast. Still not sure if that's an improvement depending on stage of project.
So, 4.7: Early iterations
4.8: Commercial level care?
Founders must stop trying to building 2010-era businesses with 2026-era technology.
Don't try to rebuild Foursquare or Yelp.
Don't try to recreate Basecamp by 37 Signals with $10/mo SaaS pricing.
Don't underprice! If it works it's worth a lot more.
Don't be tempted to become "Tech enabled PE" with revenue tricks.
The rules of tech changed with AI. Play the new game.
time spent building an app.
2021: 99% coding
2026: 99% looking at the interface thinking "not right"
We should have much better interfaces coming our way.
🇨🇳 How safe is china?
Mall officially closed but doors wide open.
Store owners left laptops plugged in, goods covered with cloth, and walked away.
Zero expectation of theft.
🇨🇳 How safe is china?
Mall officially closed but doors wide open.
Store owners left laptops plugged in, goods covered with cloth, and walked away.
Zero expectation of theft.
I remember this one time on a stag in Dublin, eating burgers. I was choking and was polite enough to get up and leave the restaurant to choke to death outdoors...
thankfully it dislodged from my throat and i walked back in and sat down.
Strange to see Indian Guru types on TV and Social Media.
I find it hard to trust them at all because in India seeing (real) Sadhus / Yogis in the streets is such a different experience.
They're not saying a word and they seem both calm and present compared to the TV gurus. They are committed.