When you meet a new person in your field, one easy small talk question to ask them is: “if you were [insert your company name here], what would you do?” It gets you some free consulting, lets someone talk about themselves and things they know, and, you know, just gives you something to talk about that fills the silence.
Posts in "wastebook"
Does anyone really want air hand-dryers around? I mean, they’re loud and they don’t work. You might as well have a sign that says “dry your hands off on your clothes."
“My phone -and I realise this is mildly absurd – is a constant slight disappointment to me. But I’m from the generation that thought we’d have the world on our wrist.” W.E.
“A man who had over the course of a week absorbed, as by osmosis, the Spirit of the Internet. And that is a foul, foul thing.” a slightly embarrassed announcement
To Apple, there is only one time zone. www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…
“PRACTICAL ESTHETIC SERVICES ADAPTABLE TO CLIENT SITUATION.” Art card
“Executize this” -> “write this for someone who doesn’t care about the topic but needs to deal with it for their job."
“I couldn’t imagine anything worse than running my dad’s Hooters.” An Interview with Cloudflare Founder and CEO Matthew Prince About Internet History and Pay-per-crawl
“Music for Claude Coding.” What I think about when I think about Claude Code