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Pre-Google, part of working with computers was developing a kind of intuition for which search engines to query with which things, how to query them, and what to expect. LLMs feel strangely similar rn. I find myself moving between them for diff things and prompting differently.

Guy in front of me scans his boarding pass: *beep* *beep* “You’re seated in an emergency exit row. Are you willing and able to assist in case of an emergency?” *blink* “What was that?” “…are you willing/able to assist in case of an emergency?” “pfft.. probably not, honestly”

You can date movies pre-2000 by the clothes, hair, style, and music in the film. Post-2000 you can only date movies by the look/age of the phones in the film.

It has been interesting to watch the drivers of Los Angeles slowly discover that Waymo will always yield

There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity…

In an alternate timeline where blockchain technologies had never been invented for the past 14 years, in what ways would the world be functionally different today?

Does anyone like PST? What are we waiting for? Let’s “spring forward” to PDT this weekend All we need to do is get one engineer at Apple to push an update and everyone else will automatically come with us

The personal health interventions we currently have are so well known but crude (diet, exercise, sleep) that applying tech to health/wellness usually just feels like inventing diff forms of police to me. The rings, the watches, the bands all just feel like the sleep police, the…

Some thoughts on vision and creativity in software and software organizations: moxie.org/2024/09/23/a-g…

If you want to learn more about homelessness in SF, I think two easy things you can do are: 1. Volunteer and eat at Martin de Porres on Potrero. 2. Work from the SF public library main branch in lieu of a coffee shop. Occasionally say hello to the ppl on laptops at your table.