Old Bay seasoning being on a restaurant menu is a thing I only see in cities in or near DMV.

I actually never thought of it from this angle 😂 imagine ppl judging the US based on a visit to early 10s Detroit

Gambling ads work best on community noters

I like telling the bartender “I’m ready to clock out” when I ask for my tab.

A gentle reminder that if you want to speed up expertise intuition, you will do a lot better if you have an actual mental model of what expert intuition *is*. The most useful model is the one below: It gives you more handles on how to improve.

"If you don't understand the code, your only recourse is to ask AI to fix it for you, which is like paying off credit card debt with another credit card."

Everyone surprised Figma uses Ruby might be missing the forest from the tree. What is amazing about Figma’s tech stack is not Ruby, or not using GraphQL in my view. It’s that they built a full-on cross-platform rendering engine in C++ and how web devs still wrote C++ at Figma

One way I used to find clients that doesn’t work anymore was crawling the Computer Gigs section of Craigslist in every city.

I don’t sleep very much, so I have been really enjoying reading a bunch of dotcom bubble/bust era books. this was written (by a software engineer) about the uselessness of mobile:

At breakfast club LA yesterday, a few of us elder millennials discussed the dire state of nightlife in the city. Bars and clubs shutting down, people not being outside in general. A few folks around the table were actual venue owners or operators, hospitality business owners,

Perfect example of a subtle thing that’s very meaningful and noticeable in everyday experience. Screen lag can make even fast cars seem slow. Tesla knows this and nails this. Teslas are double-fast.

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. " - Viktor Frankl

When you Google the phrase “bad UX”, the search results come back in Comic Sans font. Incredible easter egg.

Jeez, seems a little drastic.

ATM asking if me if I would to like to check my balance when I’m on a trip is very inconsiderate. Read the room.

Zuckerberg tried to buy Mira Murati’s new AI startup. After she said no, he tried to raid her company for talent Our latest piece on the AI talent wars, w/ keachhagey wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-z…

If my friends text me they’re at a place with touchtunes I’ll take over the queue

Happy to see the Grindscore going viral yesterday. Always fun when people like a new metric or way to think about data. By popular demand, here are the highest Grindscore public software companies (of those I follow closely):