Category: wastebook
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“Mad Max, an Australian documentary.” Matt.
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“It’s a birth scene, not a boss scene.” ChatGPT 5.2 analyzes The Spider-God’s Bride.
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”We want adult tension. The tension of brains. If anyone sees sex, that’s on them. We’re not responsible for the public’s imagination. We’re responsible for moving units in Woolworths.”
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“Always be suspicious of a dish that has five shots of vodka lined up so you can brace yourself.” From Ye Olde WWW.
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Cross silo ROI is not legible.
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”Betty’s boyfriend-to-be is a dog-chef called Bimbo, who serenades her on a duck that transforms into a guitar, while the restaurant clientele and staff include a fantastical menagerie of animals.” It was a different time.
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The new mid-life crisis is reading Proust.
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“We shall endeavor to survive the loss of your opinions.” Westenberg.
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There’s a fine line between “charming” and “annoying.”
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What would an annual intellectual purge look like? Accounting for and getting rid of unfinished thoughts and beliefs to start fresh, rather, declutter the mind. The goal is something like inbox bankruptcy.
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As I get older, I need to do less “let’s see what happens.”
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It is hard to keep up with American corporate smile-energy.
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The curse of enterprise maturity
Enterprises have a habit of “professionalizing” consumer tech by adding control – security, compliance, cost management, approved architectures. All reasonable. And often exactly what kills the thing. Heroku and early cloud worked because they removed friction: no tickets, no permission, no approved stack. Developers could move fast, make local tradeoffs, and live with the consequences.…
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Sometimes, you accidentally delete a paragraph of text and it’s not in the undo buffer for some reason. And most of those times, it’s good to think: I probably didn’t need that anyhow.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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“[N]ot everyone needs to like everything, which is the most important thing.” On art, but also life in general.
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“No. Make it shorter. Tea please.” The PowerPoint Guru.
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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…
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