“There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver

I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.

“Creating a real-time digital representation of an enterprise build on harmonized data & a system of intelligence (SoI) that is governed and autodidactic will create software-like marginal economics for companies that apply this to their business.” // Contender for Best Enterprise Cant of FY2016.

Does anyone read predictions pieces? In late 2025, I predict that only people who read prediction pieces are people who write prediction pieces.

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” // Vibes win every time. John Stuart Mill, by way of Alan Jacobs

“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.”

Angel flying too close to the 10-Q.

“an encapsulated volume of pre-Fascist space-time” Alan Jacobs

“I don’t know what it is other than what it does.” Tyler Cowen on Tetragrammaton

The original sentiment: “The purpose of a system is what it does.”