Category: wastebook
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“White Collar Elitism” America’s ‘Simon Sinek’ Problem
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“Multi-Layer Configuration Sandwich of Gemini CLI” Daniel Strebel
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I am considering putting corn on my shit. I like corn just fine. I’m from Texas after all. But over here in Europe they put corn on damn-near everything, even pizza. A poke bowl has corn too. Corn has gone too far.
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Many times in London I’ve smelled perfume that smells like super-sweet cotton candy. Is that a thing now?
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”…the Gen-Z exit…” overheard near Bank, London.
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“We’ve all got to die of something, he thought. Even if it’s just from staying alive too long.” Mini-story: Retirement
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I’m hear in the AMS KLM and lounge, and because the business people are blaring their calls on the speaker, I realize that we’re all talking about AIs. Even if you have a VoIP app. I mean, including me. Just not VoIP. They all have a take on “agentic.” “Hey, guys, here’s the thing about…
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There’s still enterprise marketing writing that beings “In today’s fast-evolving technology landscape…”
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Trusting every (short) video you see is now a very bad idea. Because AI. Hopefully we’ll go back to just trusting humans and making sure we have enough of a shared model of the world to do so.
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“Even paranoid people have enemies.” Ron Emanuel, _Political Gabfest, October 30th, 2025.
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”becoming a parent has forced me to prioritize predictability and comforts that are compatible with the routines and demands of a toddler.” When East Becomes West
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“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.
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“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
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I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.
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“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.
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Does anyone read predictions pieces? In late 2025, I predict that only people who read prediction pieces are people who write prediction pieces.
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“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
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“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.”
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Angel flying too close to the 10-Q.
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