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I am not excited about tech anymore. I dread it to be honest. I was an early engineer at a AI company that got acquired. From that and related stock (golden handcuffs) was able to …

I don't think the bottleneck was engineering time alone. There is context, brand, customer support, etc. I am not sure big complex products are particularly vulnerable in the way y…

Anyone who is worried about their gum inflammation should consider going on metformin. I had bleeding gums for my entire adult life. In my late 60s I was put on metformin for pre-d…

"Software quality is tied to the market incentives and always has been." Yes -- but. The market is irrational especially in a time of mania or panic. The AI phase we are in has man…

I really noticed this a few years ago to the point that I changed a few things and they have helped. 1. I notice the movement of my attention. I used to default to something like: …

My son has ADHD and I never knew what it meant but this year I made him get coaching for it and I made him get meds. He was living at home for free rent and the condition of stayin…

There is more to this story. I have heard Harvard (and its ilk) described as a smallish university attached to a massive investment fund. One of the criteria for admission is how m…

No. Briahna Joy Gray and a guest whose name I don't remember.

We'll be cleaning up tech debt from over-reliance on AI.

I was listening to a podcast where the host and the guest were both Black and both had been to Harvard. This was before the Supreme Court ruling. They joked that it was well known …

what is missing from this is the issue of power. tech companies interpret the rise of AI as empowering management and disempowering workers. It's the American way to disempower wor…

I was walking through a startup neighborhood in San Francisco the other day and I encountered several telephone poles which were posted with advertisements for software engineering…

Shout out to American Giant. I have like 15 t-shirts from them, some are ten years old and they look new. Buying good stuff saves money in the long run!

Not just many foreign militaries. Our military. General Dan Caine by report advised Trump about the negative consequences of this action. MAGA elected a fantasist and narcissist an…

Wonderful to hear. Her long Covid was heartbreaking (saw the videos). I hope she gets stronger and stronger! Welcome back!

Private car ownership is better everyday for suburbs and rural areas but in cities that is not true. Public transit can improve downtown access and reduce congestion. You need some…

San Francisco put in some bus only lanes and those routes have greatly improved bus speed and ontime performance.

This is not Facebook but I have a young friend who gets her news on Epstein from tiktok. She is convinced they were eating babies. I do worry (a little) that she will go over the c…

My son -- early 30's -- is impacted by how everyone's life seems much better than his. I think it's a real issue for young people.

To be fair SF has had incomprehensible (to normies) billboards since at least the early 90's.

I have a friend who was put on a GLP-1 and had an astonishing reduction in arthritis pain.

The prospect of going the last mile to fix the remaining problems reminds me of the old joke: "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development…

I'm anxious about code quality in critical infrastructure in 5 years or so. Also my mastery of code starts with design and implementation that results in deep, intuitive understand…

If you can extract a whole copyrighted book from a large language model, what is the point in copywriting your book?