Finding your labor of love is almost always preceded by cultivating a love of labor.

“The formula is simple. Do the work. Don’t be afraid to dive deep into your curiosity and your expertise. We need more people that are intensely curious. We need more people with deep expertise.” - ⁦Aaron Francis⁩ github.com/readme/guides/…

"The camera misses the point of sketching, which is to understand what you see. The machine does the work for us, and we get to skip the struggle. But it is that struggle that makes us learn and master skills." sketch.nono.ma/ai-misses-the-…

Hat tip to everyone who is striving to be forward center of mass, building things, giving to the world and striving to be better. It takes guts and focus. Keep going. The rest is noise.

Aftermath. Repair/rebuild.

Neat!

The Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence? with Thomas Wolf (@HuggingFace), Yoshua Bengio, Yejin Choi (Stanford University) Andrew Ng (DeepLearning.AI), Jonathan Ross (Groq Inc), nxthompson (@theatlantic) #WEF25 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

“Aho gutatira u Rwanda cyangwa kurutanga mu maboko y abatindi batagira umutima, uzemere urwitangireho igitambo na mbere wari kuzagenda utabihisemo. Wowe uzazima ariko u Rwanda wo ntiruzazima kandi kutazima kwa wo niwo muzuko wawe nk'Umunyarwanda” #Ubutwari2025

Thoughts about the future of UI that excite me: 1. Complex web interfaces are dead in the long term. They are solving human perception limitations that will no longer be relevant. No one will want to learn how to use complex UIs in the future. If this is your app's

During my PhD, my advisor told me to not use the library’s computer to find the book I wanted, because the act of browsing row after row in the stacks to find it was how original connections were made.

Still one of the most insane lines I've read in any ML paper.

"We can, and must, pursue alternative approaches to AI development that are more adaptive, more resilient, and broadly accessible to the global community." — Yejin Choi

Best song in a generation. Symbolism unmatched youtube.com/watch?v=OmYO3t… Big Vinxi Great work!

Excellent read. thefp.com/p/how-intellec…

“Yi Yi isn’t hard to put into words because it’s one of the best movies ever made, it’s one of the best movies ever made because it’s hard to put into words." — David Ehrlich youtube.com/watch?v=mjqjV0…

Mathematics: The rise of the machines youtu.be/oOYcPkBaotg?si…

Horrifying banger

me watching the llm do the job i used to love

A habit worth building: Tell people the specific impact they had on you. Not "thanks for everything." But, “the way you handled that meeting taught me confidence." Generic praise is forgotten. Most people have no idea what they do well. Show them.

One of my favorite use cases for Nano Banana Pro, Google’s latest image model, is recreating historical black-and-white photos in color. It’s prone to errors like any model, but it lends a realism to the past that used to be tedious to achieve. Might build a tool around this.