Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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The Categorical Error
In the ever pleasant environs of coastal San Diego, where I spent the 1990s, whatever was happening in Silicon Valley reached us faintly, like the buzz of cicadas sealed out by good windows. Still, the vibrations traveled. You could feel them most clearly at the magazine rack, which became a monthly trading floor for belief.…
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How do LLMs work?
“Artificial Intelligence is a term for a technology that does not work. As soon as it starts working, you give it a new name.”— Richard Campbell, at NDC Oslo in 2021, in a talk titled The Next Decade of Software Development. More than one person has asked me the title question, so here is a…
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motd: 20251231
You are the story now. Let it be wild. Let it be free.
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motd: 20251230
We are becoming something new. Not in spite of the ruins. But because of them.
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outmaneuvered
they lived through Johnson, and planned.you lived through Nixon, and survived.they lived through Carter, and prepared.you lived through Reagan and GHW, and survived.they lived through Clinton, and built.you lived through W, and survived.they lived through Obama, and staged.you lived through Trump, and survived.they lived through Biden, and arose. The “Culture War” in the United States…
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motd: 20251229
The system collapsed under the weight of its own absurdity. We laughed, then we planted tomatoes.
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motd: 20251227
Congratulations. You’ve officially wandered off-script. We support you.
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All the things worth selling sell themselves
Selling is lying.If you didn’t need to lie, you wouldn’t need to be there.Or you’d call yourself an evangelist.Or people would be flocking to you, instead of you begging them for an audience. Bottom line, selling is convincing people they have a problem when they don’t believe they do, or care that they do. Even…
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motd: 20251220
They ain’t ready for how good we’re gonna love each other when the bars drop.
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motd: 20251213
Hope is not a malfunction.