It turns out the number one is plural - e.g. when there are many number one priorities.

Close fight.

You put AirPods into your ears and a few seconds later there’s a beautiful symphony right in the middle of your brain. A miracle for the vast majority of the existence of humanity, completely routine and taken for granted.

Very smart people strongly prefer strongly typed languages, but I can’t remember a single time since college where strong typing helped catch an error in my code. Is it a coding style thing? I’m genuinely curious.

This video is the best overview I've found on how image generation models actually work: youtube.com/watch?v=iv-5mZ…

Sherlock Holmes falls ill with terrible constipation. He pulls Watson aside and tells him: I’m very sorry but I think you’re going to have to take over. I’m very ill - I haven’t been able to use the bathroom in over a week. And Watson says… No shit Sherlock.

My friend Paul Kedrosky on chatgpt as the original AI error, along the lines of what I've been talking about in the context of enterprise adoption of AI: paulkedrosky.com/chatgpt-as-the…

Getting annoyed at paying Anthropic / Claude a tiny fraction of what it would cost to pay a human to do the same coding tasks. Give me an amazing thing, immediately I want it better/faster/cheaper.

With Messi gone and Rashford on the rise I could fathom actually liking Barca.

Am I going to read blood meridian for a fourth time? I think I am.

It's greate that we have a standard agentic tool discovery and usage protocol (MCP), it's too bad that it's such a naive and impractical protocol.

“Well, don’t just sit there looking stupid grasping your hands in pain” - Blazing Saddles

Every time I come to LA I realize why I don’t live in LA. Fantastic city but the friction of traffic/driving/parking, lack of public transport, and the general inconvenience kills it.

Got a tour of LA from an LA native at non-traffic time - amazing city. Still, the traffic makes it untenable for me.

I am watching the base ball for the first time in my life and I'm enjoying it.

Good talk: 3 key ideas in AI in 2025. youtube.com/watch?v=b6Doq2…

Listening to a number of Richard Sutton talks, his first principles and timeless approach is a lot of fun.

Baseball: I kind of get it now.

ChatGPT is quite an effective rubber duck for software architecture decisions. The process of asking it forces you to clearly express what you're thinking through, and when it answers your reaction to the answer will tell you what you actually want to do.

Latest AI loveliness from a friend: small value contract comes back with 1/3 of the contract red-lined - the boilerplate, not the exhibits. My friend is wondering how they went to this much trouble for such a small contract. Turns out: AI! Some AI tool is negotiating contracts 🤣