Even after 3 years of tuning ChatGPT to be my best dumb friend, I keep getting told to cut the shit with my rambling, e.g., recent faint praise from the robot for my attempt at re-stating an answer: “You’ve basically got it; the only thing to do now is sharpen the tool so it’s usable without sounding like a philosophy seminar.”

What you’re putting off now is not going to get any easier or less boring to do in the future. So, try to just do it now and gift yourself future self the lack of that bullshit.

About 80% of the time, most made-up percentages of something studies have abandoned “80%” as the default majority number and are now using “70%” about 30% of the time.

“[N]ot everyone needs to like everything, which is the most important thing.” On art, but also life in general.

“No. Make it shorter. Tea please.” The PowerPoint Guru.

Those Gemini slides and infographics are OK. What would be awesome is deciding as a civilization that we don’t want to handcraft slides and infographics anymore, and we’re cool with just letting the AIs make them based on the documents we write and give to the AIs to make their bad-ass vaporware slides.

(Then I could just say, “cool slide - mind sending me the original doc?")

(Wow,…and, yes, but: holy-fuck, that infographic is good.)

Agile fails quickly if you don’t follow the practices.

“visibility engine” Russell

MONKEYSHINE - “mischievous or playful activity : PRANK —usually used in plural” Merriam-Webster

A house style that intentionally enforces a neutral voice without strong opinions is often an unintentionally ironic mask for your company having neither.