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Finished reading this a bit ago: Humankind by Rutger Bregman 📚 Some serious confirmation bias potential with this one, but a really interesting book. micro.blog/books/97803164…

The lack of a shoveling workout in the Workouts app is a major oversight. ❄️

Catching up on some reading backlog when I have the time. Am going to be trying to do more of that this year. Currently Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture - an old, but important blog from Etsy. etsy.com/codeascraft/bl…

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble’s Surprising Turnaround? I haven’t been in B&N in years, but have re-discovered physical bookstores over the last few months. You can tell if a store is run by people who love books the moment you walk in. tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-…

Finished reading: Exhalation by Ted Chiang 📚 Lots of great ideas and compelling writing. I remain not a fan of the short story genre, but I’d read more of Chiang’s. micro.blog/books/97811019…

The current climate in AI has so many parallels to 2021 web3 it's making me uncomfortable. Narratives based on zero data are accepted as self-evident. Everyone is expecting as a sure thing "civilization-altering" impact (& 100x returns on investment) in the next 2-3 years

One thing I've found endlessly fascinating is to search Twitter for the most popular ChatGPT tweets, to gain insight into popular use cases. These tweets fall overwhelmingly into one category (like 80%). Can you guess what that is?

If you are ever in Minneapolis, author Louise Erdrich’s Birch Bark is probably unlike any bookstore you’ve been to and worth a visit.

I feel like chatGPT is going to be the enterprise blockchain of 2023. It’s a real shame, as unlike blockchain, these types of language models are very useful for many things. But there is so little understanding of how these models actually work among some starting to hype them.

Need to write at length about where I see generative models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion going in the next few years, especially in enterprise. The next year or so is going to be rough, with lots of misguided and damaging projects, but I think years 3-4 look promising.

I’m happy to report that the ChatGPT prompt, “Summarize what this code does in simple English” generally produces pretty impressive results. But take it to another level with the prompt, “Are there any bugs in this code?”

I found this interview (paid Stratechery subscription required) with Midjourney founder David Holz incredibly interesting. Some of the product creation insights and predictions around cloud build-out that start 1/3 of the way through are really excellent. stratechery.com/2022/an-interv…

In the back of my mind trying to figure out if someone building Nuzzel for the Fediverse would make people angry. Fedi-people seem to get angry about stuff like that. 😬

Bruce Schneier on hacking the tax code. A good voice to listen to on future security and policy issues, and an ML-realist. schneier.com/blog/archives/…

This thread is hopefully not incredibly surprising to those who pay any attention or racism these days, but the explanation and references are really interesting. hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/…

Deliberate Practice: micro.esjewett.com/2023/03/06/del…

How did camels get such a bad reputation in the design community? 🤣

What would I have liked to see happen with SVB? Something like making 50-80% of uninsured deposits available immediately. The rest probably would have been available eventually. Some longer-term pain for those with foolish liquidity-management isn’t a ... micro.esjewett.com/2023/03/15/wha…

The whole GM CarPlay debacle has really thrown a wrench in the buy-a-Bolt plan. At this point, probably just going to stick with the ICE car until small EVs with good phone integration become available.