One small benefit of having been forced to change the name of your company is you can instantly see who is working off of an old list and doesn’t actually know (or care) about your company

Me: “How many planets there are?

Six-year-old: “Thirteen.”

Me: “Oh, actually I think there are…”

Six-year-old: “Dad, I know what you’re going to say. Do NOT try to not count the dwarf planets. I hate it when people do that.”

Context

Only Wall Street could be stupid enough to see spending half of your annual gross profit on training AI as a bearish signal

He wasn’t even in the first lane most of the race because was passing people after he took the baton in sixth place.

And still ran a 44.37 400 meters.

In a relay.

At age 16.

What on earth.

For an app whose entire purpose is giving you data ScreenTime is pretty bad at getting data

Working on the marketing team at Facebook in 2011

Diet Coke may not have any calories but it makes me way more hungry than when I don’t drink it

This is exactly what it’s like to have a toddler

Speaking of religious network effects in programming languages…

One of my favorite bits of trivia is that Ruby took off very early in Utah in part because Matz is Mormon.

I had never really thought about this before, but it’s fascinating how much of the Scala community is/was either deeply religious or deeply political (or both). Haskell slightly more so.

Much more so than other programming communities.

Not 100% sure why.

And crazy that we lived through a time when people (particularly women CEOs) could get fired for supposedly being too abrasive theverge.com/2019/12/5/2099…