The most interesting people to converse with are not predictable. You never know what they'll say next; they can twist the subject and look at it from completely unexpected angles.

One thing I see a stark contrast from company to company while speaking to them is how they value people. There is definitely a correlation between the companies doing great things and building a high trust environment!

Principles, fundamentals and patterns are materialized in the language, expressed through it. This triggers rewiring, or rather new mental model building. #fsharp

The best new ideas always have unanticipated benefits. So it's stupid to require people who want to do new things to enumerate the benefits beforehand. The best you can do is choose smart people and then trust their intuitions about what's worth exploring.

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Some comments on this post have been things like: "So you mean if we only use simple code, then we don't need to learn anything at all?" This is a bad take. you still need to know the stuff in the middle, the critical part is to know when to actually use those patterns "If I'm

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The fact that chatbots are increasingly being used as search engines is evidence that most people don't know the difference. Technology on its own isn't useful without digital literacy.

Grifters gotta grift.

My last newsletter of the year: Marc Andreessen's "Software Is Eating The World" mentality is responsible for every problem in tech since 2011 - and if we want to save the tech industry, we must reject him and the e/acc "growth at all costs" death cult. wheresyoured.at/p/software-has…

Andreessen and e/acc are not "optimists," they're an anti-innovation, anti-labor and anti-creativity death-cult. Their influence has made the tech industry make companies to sell to other companies rather than serving real customers. wheresyoured.at/p/software-has…

Wow

Just finished Will Hutton “This Time No Mistakes”. Excellent analysis of the mess we’re in, although I did find this line a little extreme before I realised I’d misread a word…

The new Tony Blair Institute report finds huge time savings for the public sector from the use of AI tools... by asking GPT-4 what tasks can or cannot be automated 😵‍💫