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I actually disagree. People only take your lane if you are in the fastest lane. If you are in any slower lane, people tend to jump in and then leave and I have no problem with peop…

To me, they all the same because they are all tools that stand between “my vision” and “it being built.” e.g. when I built a truck camper, maybe 50% was woodworking but I had to do…

I did a fair about of data analysis and deciding when or if my report was correct was a huge adrenaline rush. A huge test for me was to have people review my analyses and poke hole…

The Internet is to blame! But you could say we peaked before electricity too: - It broke our natural circadian rhythm - It enabled the 24-hr grind - With radios and televisions, pe…

So you’re not missing anything if you use Claude by yourself. You just update your local system prompt. Instead it’s a problem when you’re part of a team and you’re using skills fo…

I think the problem with this hypothetical is that technology was the main constraint back in 1900, not marketing. Battery technology was significantly much worse. Lithium batterie…

If only people knew how much of Microsoft Windows has been secretly powered by HTML pages for 20 years… In Windows 95, Microsoft let you set a HTML file as your wallpaper and let y…

“Good” is some mix of taste and skill. People without taste hide behind skill. They do everything technically correctly and still make something bad. This is the threat of new medi…

The founders were skeptical of direct democracy because it assumes people have time and expertise they mostly don’t. People should not be voting based on their understanding of tar…

Looks like a Frecciarossa 1000 derailed in 2020 but it was due to a manufacturer defect in a track switch replaced the night before. The defect was not caught by the manufacturer o…

I think the underlying approach seems sensible. The problem with Gas Town is how it was presented. The heavy metaphor and branding felt distracting. It’s a bit like reading the Dun…

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This took me a long time to work through: 1. People’s beliefs are strongly shaped by upbringing and social environment. 2. A belief feeling “natural” or common does not make it cor…

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People had already ditched writing HTML for years before Markdown came out. People were just using other markup languages like rST. Other attempts had already proven HTML to be a b…