Christian
@christian_7xj
🇺🇸 make it count
i'm just here to yap and yearn
>wake up >observe >notice patterns >yap about patterns >yearn >sleep
LLMs are only making this problem worse.
New theory: the apparent stupidity of people on the 21st century internet is a side-effect of predictive typing and auto-correct. If you could see how these people spelled their words and structured their sentences when they have to write longhand, it would all make sense
Discretionary effort is the hidden engine of great service. A genuine smile isn’t in the job description, but it’s what makes the experience human.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
“Projection” is a very nuanced, very misunderstood, too often misapplied concept, but it’s very real, and once you understand it, you see it everywhere.
One of my favorite things I realized after decades on this planet The most homophobic guys are almost always closeted gays It just takes them some years to figure it out Every single time
> NO Soliciting > Smile! You’re on camera! What mental illness is this?
The dreaded ‘you are absolutely right…’ At which point you know the AI model is not going to give you what you want no matter how many times you rephrase the prompt.
The next step in micro-mobility needs to be E-Strollers. Who's building this?

Will we ever go back?
I remain pretty convinced that Apollo program Hasselblad photography remains a civilizational high water mark re: vibes / accidental art. And the lesser known ones are in some ways greater.
It's very annoying that more and more websites these days just straight out refuse to honor your (unique, 20+ character) password and will just force you through their email/push notification/sms MFA loop. End of an era.
Watching the entire organization remember that email exists because Slack is down.
There is 15 other people in the gym right now (all ages, mix of cardio and weightlifting) and I’m the only one not wearing headphones/airpods.
Everything about this release sounds like science fiction to me. Very humbling.
A couple reflections on the quantum computing breakthrough we just announced... Most of us grew up learning there are three main types of matter that matter: solid, liquid, and gas. Today, that changed. After a nearly 20 year pursuit, we’ve created an entirely new state of…
DOGE removing billions from aggregate demand ought to have short-term negative effects on employment/demand, right? What exactly are we looking at here? I can't imagine it's going be localized to DC/NOVA.