A process of ongoing caffeination
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8 Sep 2016
Duct taped vimrc, bash and AppleScript together and now my desktop background cross-fades to a random image on :w
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Jun 13
A fable is an unusually short narrative making a cautionary point, often employing characters that speak and act like humans
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Jun 9
The force multiplier of living on the east coast and being an early riser so I get Anthropic’s servers all to myself for the five hours that San Francisco sleeps
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Jun 4
We often misunderstand what senior executives actually tune. They make decisions, sure, but the deeper control surface is cadence: how long the organization may look at a fact before it becomes judgment, and how long judgment may remain in the air before someone puts weight on it. The calendar is the machine.
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Jun 4
AI changes the music. Not tone, although civilization will survive with fewer handcrafted paragraphs about “next steps.” Tempo. AI decreases the latency to clarity. The note arrives sooner. The chord resolves faster. The room knows what it knows before the room has learned how to keep time again.
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Jun 4
So companies reach for the oldest instrument they know: more people in the room. More reviewers. More context. More soft vetoes in dinner jackets. AI accelerates clarity, then governance adds weight to commitment until the old cadence returns. The individual hears sooner. The machine still has to learn to answer.
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Jun 3
Tasty and effortless way to get more protein. I’ve been enjoying every night for months while ramping up fitness markers. Brilliant machine
Jun 3
I've been using the Ninja Creami every single day to make protein ice cream, and I'm not going back.
Your life will change when you realize that you can eat ice cream while getting lean.
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May 28
me: My decision-making is our bottleneck. Use your agency to make good choices. Don’t halt the production line
Claude: In accordance with your directive I am delighted to be using my agency to weave bureaucratic poetry explaining why this banal decision justifies your attention
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May 16
Not a day goes by in 2026 where I don’t find myself randomly chuckling somewhere at my sheer delight we have formed whimsical anthropomorphic robots from math and might and magic
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May 16
“The only people in the universe who have never seen Star Wars are the characters in Star Wars and that's cause they lived them, Ted, that's cause they lived the Star Wars!”— Marshall Eriksen
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May 12
“10x engineer” is most useful as a shibboleth. When someone responds about effort or work units or quality slipping from haste rather than about outcomes, I quickly and surgically learn how they orient around the most fundamental principle in all engineering
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May 6
The bottleneck was never writing the code, it was shipping the code through the labyrinth to the data. And this was then convoluted further by orienting all the logistics around shipping the data to the code.
Code is cheap. Manufacture it at the source of the data
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Apr 29
*Rip Van Winkle wakes up after 30 years* So what you’re telling me is almost everyone is playing text-based adventure games 16 hours a day, but it’s actually an MMORPG, and if they stop the entire world economy crashes
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Apr 11
How we’re all collectively starting to understand how to use AI coding tools
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Apr 10
and up there in the heavens
Galileo and those pining for the moon
know it’s a slow burn
— coldplay
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Apr 10
Looking beyond Mythos’ impact 7 months down to the next 7 years: startups will double down on vertically integrating software development, enterprises on fragmentation. Actual security vs acceptable political losses. Castles vs archipelagos. Phenomenal cycle time implications
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Apr 9
Tigger: “There's no difference between falling a thousand feet to the jagged rocks below and tumbling out of bed.”
Piglet: “Oh. Really?”
Tigger: “Sure! *ahem* Except for the splat at the end they’re practically similar”
“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.”
― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman
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