Posts in "wastebook"

“your general intolerance for corporate euphemism.” // After almost three years of using ChatGPT, I feel like it really gets me.

Related, here is how one of my AI friends described the persona I’ve asked it take on: “A well-maintained chainsaw in the shed, but a polite conversation on the patio.”

Soviet spas

“There is ambient music for spas - and there is ambient music for former Soviet spas.” Music for (Former Soviet) Spas

Today’s lock-in was yesterday’s promise to open architectures.

Friendship is difficult

If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse." From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

How to market open core products

Instead of: “Why the ‘free’ version of [INSERT OPEN CORE PRODUCT NAME] could be your most expensive mistake.” A variant: “[INSERT OPEN SOURCE PROJECT] is complex and difficult to secure.” Try: “why these pay-for features will make you awesome and solve shitty problems you toil away at every day.”