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Mr Bean is the perfect show to put on in a waiting room

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An easy way for the federal govt to build and create more local jobs would be to make huge investments in the public realm, road, sidewalk, and cycling infrastructure funding.

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Candid follow-up: I couldn’t do it. I had to have a bowl of oatmeal.

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Tip: Pitted dates are pretty much just as yummy as a date square, except they contain 100% less butter.

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If considering what you sell, they say "it's too much work", you can address their concern head on. You can also consider that "it's not for them for now". There's a third option: create a different, smaller offering, competing with the first. everyonewantsprogress.com/0068-too-muc...

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There's an idea which explains: - devs who have a complicated relationship with the front-end - why LLMs are such good news for those devs - why those devs reach for UI libraries Devs who see the front-end as superficial, so will be their investment in learning it.

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That two competing Theories of Everything describe space, time and gravity as causal effects of interactions further down, that’s interesting. - Hypergraphs - Causal Fermion Systems I think there’s something here.

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"AI won’t destroy jobs. AI will destroy jobs." Which statement to listen to? Since AI will mostly benefit owners, it’s safe (via negativa) to avoid the advice of owners, especially if you’re a non-owner employee. So get ready either way.

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“Well Garrett, your problem is you’re a founder and people don’t hire founders." overcast.fm/+AA_TZb8G2DY...

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Five years ago, coding was the easy part, and knowing what to code and promoting it (talking to customers, positioning, sales, etc.) was the hard part. Right now, coding is still the easy part, and knowing what to code and promoting it is the hard part.

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Picard eating a sandwich. Would have loved to have been there.

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When people imply that theory is inferior to practice, they're either saying: 1. I've done the work of understanding theory, I've seen the edge cases, the theory is wrong 2. I haven't done the work of understanding theory and what it predicts A good theory is a predictive tool

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To me the biggest adaptation needed, with using AI so much when working, is this: Finding a new to be in the Zone for 3-4 hour blocks. Delegating to AI disrupts my time in the Zone. You all have a similar experience, or are you able to be in the Zone still?

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Seth gets it seths.blog/2025/05/hall...

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"But the LLMs don’t know about it so I have to fix bugs" I’ve heard this line a couple times in the last few weeks, about people and their choice of coding language/framework. I don’t know how this will play out, but it’s something.

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Listening to this one, and find the part about "dopaminergic" personality fascinating, about the interest in building but not in running a thing. I've got this too for sure. At time mark 40:07: overcast.fm/+ABBj7VbY6C0...

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Disney execs are surely seeing an uptick in subs. In the last two weeks, two friends whom I told about the Andor series being worth a watch, told me they’d restart their Disney Plus subscription.

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If they're saying no to the solution you offer, it's not because they're resisting (their own progress). It's because it's not the right time. Better not be pushy, because when they'll be ready, you'll have trust. everyonewantsprogress.com/0067-resisti...

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In Star Trek TNG, Season 3, Ep. 6, we see the powers of an LLM in full display: Load up a simulated Dr. Leah Brahms from her audio log entries as context. Run a program to outmaneuver a power-draining trap. Romance! The episode runs the gamut. Including Picard flexing at the con. Good fiction.

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Sent out another batch of updates to friends who have been using ReadWith in the past with me. Now onto the next few features I'm going to build....

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If you're dissatisfied with the current state of the front-end, might I recommend a couple evergreen principles? The heart of the JS ecosystem is speed. Avoid that ratchet. Consider the JS Gradient.

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For ReadWith, an app that helps share reading notes in a book club, I'm pushing back on building a feature. I don't want to build in a Chat UI (for the book club) I don't want to build in a way to add comments on a note either. It's just too much to cover. I have another idea instead.

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It’s easy on the front-end to pick a component library and say: "I’m doing design!" Picking a framework on the backend usually equates to doing good (back-end) design. But a good (front-end) design creates a better back-end design.

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It's easy to be DRY on your backend. Convention over configuration too. On the front-end, a world so brittle and ever-changing, it's different. People decry that there's no easy answer, but the truth resembles good design(!) "Design involves as little design as possible" — Dieter Rams

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Just had a nice fellow drop by, and it was a very nerdy conversation: - Sold him an Unstable Game we bought a deluxe set of - The guy majored in Physics, studied neutrinos, and worked on finding dark matter (we have dark matter in our galaxy, and apparently it might give off energy when decaying)

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It doesn't hurt to watch your spending. No, not to _cut_ your spending (not yet). To _watch_ your spending, to learn a thing or two. Or maybe even to spend more. everyonewantsprogress.com/0066-the-gif...

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We think our social media situation is in a stalemate, that it's saturated. But I think we're due for more, better, different feeds. New buttons on our phone screens that aren't so dopamine-rich, somehow.

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Jony Ive’s recent interview had this one bit that I keep thinking about: He’s less concerned with the AI wave than he was at the advent of social media, which he found terrifying, because at least with AI we are discussing our fears of it going badly. That’s interesting.

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Happy Star Wars Day to my Eastern Orthodox friends!

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Sent out a first batch of updates. If you've been on ReadWith in the past and haven't received an email from me today, I'm going to continue next week.

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Today I'm sending out updates to friends with whom I've been reading books with my ReadWith app. The new version of ReadWith is redesigned, adds a way to discover other friends whose book reading notes I've vouched for. Looking forward to hear people's feedback.

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Simple is hard 😱

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Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

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A tall stack of beliefs makes you brittle and immobile. (Same as with tech stacks.) It might take hitting a wall before people question their beliefs. Then, they'll be in a quest for progress. Only then is when they might seek your help. everyonewantsprogress.com/0065-stack-r...

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