“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.”
Posts in "wastebook"
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
Festina lente / make haste slowly
Tasks should be approached with a balance of urgency and diligence to avoid mistakes and achieve optimal long-term results.
“I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s target customer is overeducated and underpaid.” Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe
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.”
Filtered
“All of my news was filtered through AI.”
🔗 Good Morning & Good Luck
“a giant turd of text” Oracle - ‘Generic AI stops at 60%, industry expertise is the missing 40%’
“the flying car of the mind” AI is the flying car of the mind: Irresistible, impractical
Weird
Every culture with a weird thing thinks they’re the only one with the weird thing.