This is real leadership. I've heard sportscaster mock this. WHY? This was the top coordinator in the league given a chance to lead and it's working. Avoid the easy cynicism. Respect a great leader motivating his team. Be glad we get to see it!

Horrible news from Ben Sasse wrapped in a beautiful and inspiring message that is worth your time.

This is a tacit knowledge problem, reframed as an infrastructure opportunity. All of the current AI implementations miss the reasoning behind decisions, the "why" that lives in experts' heads. You cannot "invent" a digital expert persona using just prompt engineering. You have

Starting at midnight PT tonight, all Pro and Max plans have 2x their usual usage limits through New Year's Eve.

This is pretty great marketing! Vibe code with your downtime is a compelling pitch for many, me included…niw can we double the 4 hour session limits to?

Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is a watershed moment, moving software creation from an artisanal, craftsman activity to a true industrial process. It’s the Gutenberg press. The sewing machine. The photo camera.

Claude Code vastly exceeds my expectations of what any AI can do right now. It is addictive and changes the software paradigm. I've only been using it for 3 weeks and suddenly my bias is to create bespoke softward to solve my problems!

claude code + opus 4.5 injected the immaculate hacker vibes back into ai that we haven’t had since gpt-4. everything is new + fun + weird again. you can feel it. another oom of new ideas & latent economic value is waiting to be unlocked. and building has never been this fun.

THE PERSONAL PANOPTICON. A few months ago, I started running my life out of Claude Code. Not out of intention to do so, it was just the place where everything met. And it just kept working. Empires are won by conquest. What keeps them standing is something much quieter. Before

On the first day of cross-country practice in high school, my coach stood up and said: "I'm here to teach you how to be a better man. And I'm going to do it through teaching you how to be a better runner." I thought that was silly at first, but it's always stuck with me

39 years ago today, the first article of David Simon’s 5 part series “Easy Money: Anatomy of a Drug Empire" ran in the Baltimore Sun. If you are a diehard fan of The Wire, you’ll like this video by filmmaker Walker Morgan highlighting the connections between Easy Money & The Wire

If men are riding bikes and drinking in the daytime, it's a bad neighborhood If women are riding bikes and drinking in the daytime, it's a good neighborhood

This paper shows you can predict real purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile, giving it a product & having it give impressions, which another AI rates. No fine-tuning or training & beats classic ML methods. This is

Clawdbot + MakeUGC V.2 = 550 videos per day Fully-realistic UGC ads — cinematic lighting, human motion, perfect pacing — powered by AI agents. UGC cost: $0 Production time: minutes Scale: instant One AI engine that creates, tests, and scales short-form ads automatically —

Lady Gaga robbed Pier One?

Regardless of your political affiliation this is hilarious. Even the strongest conservative from Tennessee will enjoy this.

I honestly have no idea if we are close to a crash, a melt up, ww3, an AI industrial revolution, a mother of all short squeezes, a depression, a recession, or aliens. But it sure feels like all of them at once.

If you are considering taking a job offer, you may want to ask what your token budget will be.

People who thrive on this are selecting for a specific neurotype: high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching. That’s maybe 10-15% of the population. The other 85% will experience the same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. And that

Worthy read. Scary read. I think i find the Anthropic security guy leaving to and I'm serious 'write poetry' slightly more frightening but it's close!