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Over the last few months I've been doing something that feels completely irrational in 2026. While everyone is building AI tools and automating everything, I started manually curat…

I think the real question is trust. Once a company starts working with the Pentagon, people will naturally assume the capabilities will expand over time. Even if today’s contract h…

This is oddly satisfying. Not just the TV itself, but the idea of having random episodes playing like an old broadcast channel.

What makes the Gervais Principle interesting is that it frames organizations as systems that are supposed to become pathological over time. Instead of reforming them the economy ju…

It survives because it already solves the basic problem well enough. You can reach almost anyone and communicate without needing to join a platform or build a network first. It’s s…

What I probably need most right now is honest feedback. I’ve been building something and I’m trying to understand if the idea actually makes sense outside my own head.

The deeper you go into memory layout, the more you realize that even "simple" types aren't that simple.

The Belmont analogy is great, but the deeper point is even scarier: most of the industry is giving non-deterministic systems direct access to deterministic infrastructure (database…

I'm building a human-curated map that organizes people and sources by topics (health, skills, business, mindset, etc.). Everything is categorized manually, no AI classification. St…

The uncomfortable part is that they try to solve a real problem (protecting minors) by requiring universal identification. In practice this means every adult has to prove who they …

This is fascinating. One question I always have with large personal datasets like this: at what point did you start getting genuinely surprising insights versus confirming things y…