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Well, yeah. That's why we have "research & development" as a term. What you're referring to is the "development" part of that. In some sense: the job you have _exists precisely bec…

As a Canadian / American who now lives in Europe: IMHO the two-party system and current constitutional structure in the US is an unfortunate local maximum. It was very definitely b…

"Force" is often an unrealistic expectation, though. Taking Claude Code as an example: you can add as many rules / guidelines as you want in instruction files, but they will not be…

As someone who now lives and works in Denmark: it's sad that so many of us have been conditioned to think 6 weeks severance is generous. Here, labor unions are quite widespread, an…

> but people have hundreds and thousands on conversation on these apps that can't be easily moved elsewhere. Except these aren't conversations in the traditional sense. Yes, there'…

For anyone who's a fan of the word game Wordle (where you try to guess a secret 5-letter word in 6 guesses): I've been working on a small side project I call Adversarial Wordle. En…

Some meandering thoughts on high-trust and low-trust systems, and the design choices they make.

TBH there will likely be a _huge_ demand for "digital sovereignty consulting" over the next while, especially in the EU (and maybe also Canada). Here in Denmark, the previously unt…

As a Canadian-American living in Denmark, I've seen both sides of this. In short: trust and mistrust are _both_ self-reinforcing concepts. To take an example - would I want the cur…

I see a lot of complaints about scope creep and vision drift here, so I'll add a different perspective: I use Notion right now, but have been considering a switch to Obsidian for a…

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. There's a gaping conceptual chasm between "publicly funded" and "communist".

100% agree that spending on R&D is _very_ efficient in terms of just about anything you could conceivably care about - downstream economic outcomes, quality of life, geopolitical s…

Government investment in science is...the only way basic science happens, really. I'd recommend reading The Entrepreneurial State [1] here: in essence, basic science pays off too s…

Agree that it's messed up, but it's _not_ working for free: > I was laid off in May, and per Danish law, as an employee of over nine years, I have a six-month notice period. I've b…

A writeup about how I'm migrating large portions of my digital life away from Big Tech platforms. I'm not making as exhaustive or dramatic an effort as e.g. [1] - but in exchange, …

(Disclaimer: I've never tried to move large numbers of people off of Facebook; I have organized community groups from scratch before, and I have led initiatives at work that consis…

Cool! This could be interesting as the base for a quick kanban board for mid-sized personal projects. That said: agree with others that sharing state between devices (either yours …

> ...it corresponds to the ability of a person to convince others that they are at that level. One note on this: as your career progresses, your ability to convince others around y…

Well, you can always leave. Usually this should start with a frank conversation with your manager. Something like this: "For a while now, I've been fielding IT requests from the en…

> Like is it supposed to be this hard to build a UI? Yes. It is hard to build UIs that are accessible, intuitive, and robust to a wide range of user inputs, interactions, and devic…

It's always worth thinking about who the audience / userbase of your UI is, and whether they'd benefit from an expert user interface [1] or not. Sometimes, they would (e.g. the "us…