Billion dollar SaaS idea: shared calendar system for a team, where people can't accidentally edit the shared event from everyone's calendar.

It’s rare that it happens, but I started a habit last year that has actually stuck. Readwise has been an amazing tool to actually remember the non fiction I have read. 365 day streak and going.

Boris Johnson visits America, discovers that Fox News is nutty.

Hmm, over-confident rationalizer approaches a complex system to make an "obvious" change.... 🍿

What I love most about Python type checking is that you are promised that you can choose which one to use, but at any reasonable scale and complexity you have to support all of them.

1960s: "COBOL will let non-programmers make the software!" 1980s: "4GLs will let non-programmers make the software!" 2000s: "UML will let non-programmers make the software!" 2020s: "AI will let non-programmers make the software!"

Still true.

I am not an expert in banking, but I am pretty sure the last thing you want to hear from a bank CEO is "stay calm". techcrunch.com/2023/03/09/sil…

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ChatGPT is a marvel of modern engineering, a technological wonder that could make even the most skeptical man believe in magic. It's as if Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had teamed up with a computer to explore the depths of human knowledge.

It’s a race

Who is working on a GPT-based tool for navigating the US healthcare system? Filing and tracking claims, etc.

Just marked something off my todo list that has been there 7 years. Anything is possible.

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Missing from the discussion about SF crime rates and fears or crime is the idea that high fear of crime might be leading to low crime rates. You can't conclude that a low crime rate means there is a low threat-of-crime.

Where is the AI app (is there one?) for filling out PDFs?

I would say that the most surprising benefit of being un(der)employed for the last month or so has been not being on Slack all day.

Wow. Mastodon is a good replacement for twitter (in 2009).

New blog post– theryanking.com/post/retweet-b…. Read a bit about building the original native-Retweet functionality.