In 1895, Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine built a paper internet with 18MM index cards affectionately referred to as the Mundaneum.

Soft drinks in the US are all kosher. It’s not because the US population keeps kosher but because the majority don’t have a strong preference and a minority are absolutely adherent.

I recently picked up rust for a personal infrastructure project and was amazed at the amount of progress on the language and tooling over the years.

An exercise I learned about from Jeff Weinstein about finding a north star metric goes something like this.

As much as I love my emacs setup, I can’t take my laptop with me everywhere and that is my biggest compliant.

Paul Graham’s essay on founder-mode vs manager-mode is about how the advice to “hire good people and give them room to do their jobs” doesn’t work well for founders in practice.

The predominant system for managing data today pushes it far away from the people it represents.

Systems react to external events but behavior is entirely dependent on the internal workings of the system.

A question that Tim Ferriss uses to think about problems in different ways is to ask, “What would this look like if it were easy?

I’m looking into alternatives for LangChain. Maintaining a few small apps that use langchain has been difficult with all of the breaking changes, CVEs, deprecations, and new packages your expected to keep up with.

I really like the way Paul Graham characterizes the difference between persistence and obstinance in his essay The Right Kind of Stubborn.

From a recent survey paper about associative thinking, the authors found that more creative people generate a broader set of associations compared to less creative people and tend to perceive distant associations as closer together.

One explanation for how creativity works is by a process called associative thinking.

A recent study measuring the effect of including the term “artificial intelligence” in the description of products and services decreases overall purchase intent.

The essay Advantages of incompetent management by Yossi Kreinin, discusses how competent management isn’t always best and we overlook the desirable effects of incompetent management.

I use a docker container to build a fairly large hugo static website and vite to build some javascript.

In Double your productivity without more work or stress, the author makes the argument that the way to increase overall velocity is to decrease the amount of low-velocity periods of work.

The annual percentage changes of the stock market go up and down more than the actual businesses in it.

We can’t go back in time so the only thing that can provide value is in the present and future.

The longer something takes to deliver value, the less valuable it is.

Today there is an abundance of everything. Shows to watch. Content to read.

Some anecdotes as I readjust to life on the east coast.

The product or service in which, value goes to users first and then, upon capturing a mass audience of users, provides values to suppliers.

An AI agent is an intent-based abstraction that combines LLMs to plan and take action in order produce a desired goal.