When my son moved in with us, he was six years old and very behind in his reading skills. If we tried to get him to read anything, he'd flip his lid and throw massive tantrums. Fast-forward to today: he's 10 and he's the most voracious reader in the house—almost constantly with

I think this hits on an idea discussed by John Mark Comer in "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry". Productivity tools have always promised a life of leisure, and instead of resulted in running at a faster and faster pace. I'm not sure AI will be any different.

I was struggling to explain my work to some Germans on VR until they taught me the word for "company": "Unternehmen". I learned "nehmen" is "to take", so the word literally means an "undertaking" in a business/venture sense. What a great word for what we're doing.

Three questions to ask when faced with a decision: 1. What is the right thing to do? 2. Given everything I know, is it wise? 3. Do I have peace about it? Cool thing is, the answers are usually very obvious.

So excited for what's to come!

This extension from Typefully is so helpful when you're just trying to write. Blocks basically everything on here.

Do you think vibe coders will ever get to experience the strange joy that only arises from refactoring truly fragile legacy code?

Just found out you can disable autocomplete in cursor when typing comments. It can be so distracting.

I built a crappy version of AI agent with tool calling with GPT-3 back in the Summer of 2020 and felt like I was behind then. It's really come so far.

Good night: Maverick City Music and vibe coding. youtu.be/QKFjQbCKEgA?si…

Lately, we've hit so many unexpected challenges at Slingshot. We've established a bit of a routine that's not quite stoic, but is working: Be upset for about 30 seconds, laugh that it's a constant cycle, make a game plan, and then remind each other: "we just leveled up again."

Are you using AI to save time and work less or increase the amount of work you try to get done and just getting busier?

Something big just happened! So excited to share the next phase of Slingshot.

Text replacements on Mac are easy to set up and super useful for email addresses, calendar links, etc. Settings → Keyboard → Text replacements E.g. typing `xjus` on either Mac or iPhone replaces with my Slingshot email address.