I say this with love: over the years I’ve been repeatedly surprised to discover that a lot of professionals in a lot of creative fields, have excellent micro-detail-management/execution, but somehow kinda mid taste when it comes to the gestalt of what they are doing

I think my thing is, one of my favorite parts of talking to people is looking for tells in their speech that connect to their life experience, and then inquiring about that, and connecting with them about it. and LLMs don't have that

hell yeah, look at this, I called it!!! someone made a browser extension that rewrites YouTube video titles & images to be informative and NOT clickbait!!

It's called DeArrow, you can get it here: dearrow.ajay.app guys we can just have descriptive titles. This is the future

people don't actually feel good when you're nice to them. They feel incredible when you say something true about them that also happens to be beautiful

when people say the answer is "it depends" it doesn't mean that you stop searching for the answer. It means that "you need to learn a LOT more so that you CAN tell what the right answer is in each case"

SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD whereas for me (and for surely a lot of people) "it depends" = "there is no answer, we don't know"

these are Phthalo (RGB 18,53,36) and British Racing Green (5,88,34) respectively

Huge new result: Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they're not racist. That's exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. Let's dig in🧵

I highly recommend having a folder on your desktop titled 'you are loved', where you put in screenshots of lovely things people have said to/about you. here are some of mine

getting so close now!!! i'm telling you, it's happening. Don't be shocked pikachu when you find out you have way more in common with your enemies than you realize. I'm calling it now

I love humans so much, they're so fucking cool & interesting & cute. I could spend the rest of my life thinking about & talking about & studying humans and I'd never get bored. There's so much to them. There's so much. They're all so different and unique and weird and beautiful

nothing comes close to this one.

visualize any codebase 👀

GPT4o is literally cooked 🔥👨‍🍳 Visual recipes are here and they’re actually kinda genius! Prompt in ALT

a lot of the time- not always, but pretty often- i have this vague uneasy feeling that i’m ‘out of alignment’. in music terms, maybe out of tune. in chess terms, maybe not playing good moves. and its an interesting puzzle to sit with this feeling

Thy will be done Thy will be done

If you want proof of that, look at everything that you wanted to change about yourself for the last 10 years that hasn’t. I guarantee it is something you tell yourself that you “should” be doing.

Full episode on imposter syndrome here: youtu.be/5zzsisfNZ9c?si…