Category: wastebook
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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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Soviet spas
“There is ambient music for spas – and there is ambient music for former Soviet spas.” Music for (Former Soviet) Spas
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“an encapsulated volume of pre-Fascist space-time” Alan Jacobs
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“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.”
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Today’s lock-in was yesterday’s promise to open architectures.
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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
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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“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
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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.”
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“a giant turd of text” Oracle – ‘Generic AI stops at 60%, industry expertise is the missing 40%’
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“the flying car of the mind” AI is the flying car of the mind: Irresistible, impractical
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Defining slop
“It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining slop
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“The context window is a public good.” Skill authoring best practices,Claude Docs
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An enchanting annoyance
‘When we say, “I love my job,” we really mean, “My job pisses me off, but in an enchanting way.”’ Thank you for being annoying
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Wastebook round-up
“As a writer I value the concept of boredom because it’s very useful in having ideas and letting your brain explore. Now I have to actively choose when to be bored.” Chose boredom. “‘Well,’ Birkin says, in heavily accented French, ‘did you learn anything about me from seeing ing bag?’ Then a grin: ‘Even if…
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“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.”
“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book
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