“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
🤖"here are 8 things you should do for supply chain security"
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.
Satisfying on the greasy poll
This week on Software Defined Interviews, talk with Russell Davies about…all sorts of things, very content-y, advertising, being interesting. Just, you know, lots of delightful “and stuff” that results from someone who “mucks about on the internet.” (I need to get better at writing podcast descriptions.) It was fun!
Here is the traditional podcast version which you can listen to. below:
You should subscribe to the podcast, you know.
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
🤖 Tyler Cowen’s characteristic phrases and intellectual frameworks
I’m fascinated with Tyler Cowen. Here is Claude Sonnet 4.5’s deep research on his Tylerisms, I asked:
Tyler Cowen has many maxims, principles, and aphorisms. One is “Context is that which is scarce” another is “all food is ethnic food” (from his ethnic food website). Sometimes his blog posts bring with “those new service sector jobs.” He often asks the same questions in podcasts (there are transcript of all his Conversations with Tyler episodes), often about someone’s “production function,” how they work.
What do we think of GitHub saying there are 180m developers in the world?
180 million-plus developers now work and build on GitHub.
Their definition is “[a]nyone with a GitHub account.” Let’s not overthink it, just yet, and instead go with what they’re saying.
If 2025 had a theme, it would be growth. Every second, more than one new developer on average joined GitHub–over 36 million in the past year. It’s our fastest absolute growth rate yet and 180 million-plus developers now work and build on GitHub.
“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.”