essays
TL;DR The author is discussing the challenges they face with their personal Zettelkasten, a system of note-taking and knowledge management. The process of creating unique ID notes, writing single condensed ideas, and linking notes with tags and references can become overwhelming as the number of notes grows. The art
programming
This may sound like a laundry list of random buzzword items -- but in reality these are all stakeholders to complete one seemingly simple task: converting blockquotes from Readwise format into Ghost Twitter Card format. First, I'd like to go on record stating that I hate writing regex.
humor
https://t.co/bXEqFi8zqr (View Tweet) Imagine creativity just turns out to be a subset of computation. Imagine that the logic leaps of conjecture and discovering good explanations is just an eigenvector calculation in the frontal lobe or some shit.
ai
People don’t really want innovation People talk about innovation a whole lot, but what they are usually looking for is cheap wins and novelty. If you truly innovate, and change the way that people have to do things, expect mostly negative feedback. If you believe in what you’re
ai
Respond Quickly, Even If Not Personally One of the worst things you can do after receiving a contact form is to set it aside. Yes, if you’re a small-business owner, you likely have 100 other tasks on your plate, demanding your attention. But that doesn’t mean you can
programming
Developers that don’t use GitHub Copilot right now 😂😂😂 (View Tweet) the value add of copilot is the minimization of the reliance on the internet. more time in the code editor == higher quality deep work. don't led side narratives blind you to this fact. unfortunately, along the way
ai
I have aspired and failed multiple times to build a federated embedded search experience to data that is important to me. But when it comes down to it, I just want peace from the deluge of new items to process. I also am using the amazing new technology of Rewind
ai
There's thus a contradiction at the heart of index investing: If everybody were to invest in the index nobody would be doing the work needed to ensure that securities within the index are accurately priced, thereby rendering their prices meaningless. (View Tweet) The obvious downsides of indexing have
ai
Have you ever been to a party or gathering and been seated next to someone who just spends the whole night talking about themselves? It gets old pretty fast. You keep giving half-hearted smiles and polite nods but your mind is elsewhere, and that exit sign is calling your name.
vc-culture
Hypothesis: The unit economics of the machine learning space LLM 2020's startups are not similar to the social networking space in the mid-2000s. This will create a five year vacuum in VC's expecting returns Why? * Metcalfe's law is at play for people-run networks, but
ai
Birds of a Feather Rock, Paper, Shears. No, thats not right… Rock, Post-It, Scissors. Hmm, that's not it either… But what if it could be? The Burden of the Creative Expert Creating is a process of conjecture and testing. Conjecture is expansion -- the words on paper, the