Just like "The World is Flat" did for the 2008 financial crisis, this upcoming run-of-the-mill financial crisis will be used to sell AI doomer logic.
It's not AI, everything is just overpriced and we are flushing bad-investments out of the business cycle.
If you have a nickname, and no one ever asks how you got the nickname, it’s a good nickname.
I’m looking at you Buzz.
And for their next trick, they’ll convince you that you are sick and they are the only ones who care about your sickness (while telling you other people need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps).
When looking to a rich man for intellectual or moral direction, remember that Jesus directed the rich man to sell his riches to have eternal life, and the rich man walked away mumbling to himself.
Everything they say and do is filtered though their riches.
It’s concerning to see jokes, memes, and clichés used as loyalty tests for people striving for some inner circle.
There are classy winners and trashy winners. To paraphrase a champion: “Act like you’ve been there before.”
The classy enjoy in the competition. The trashy only look to the result.
I was super happy with how I played. Shot a 79 at Cambrian Ridge (canyon / loblolly). It was a 6,300 yard course, and I just plodded my way around it — except for an into the wind par 4 with water carry. Hit tee shot OB left with 3-wood, then dumped an approach into the water— walked away with a +5 on that hole due to a strategy issue.
I was super happy with how I played. Shot a 79 at Cambrian Ridge (canyon / loblolly). It was a 6,300 yard course, and I just plodded my way around it — except for an into the wind par 4 with water carry. Hit tee shot OB left with 3-wood, then dumped an approach into the water— walked away with a +5 on that hole due to a strategy issue.
The wind was affecting the ball differently as we changed directions on the course and went up and down hills. I played a 5-iron on two par 3s. One was 172 yards, and the other was 195 yards. I flew the 195 yard pin by 10 yards. I stuck it to 3 feet on the 172 yard pin.
Those who think they can compete know competition makes them better. Those who are scared try to block competition.
This isn’t about sports — it’s about world trade and immigration.
Bureaucracy is no different than AI -- you send it prompt and it goes and finds an answer. The answer is always different than you intended, and you have refine your prompt and send it again until you get what you want.
Went for a walk downtown. Passed railroad park and some guys were throwing a frisbee, so I joined. Was good to throw for a little while.
Maybe, just maybe, it all started when people categorized all world views as being "left" and "right".
Last night, at our indoor golf league, I holed out from 143 yards for par.
Par 5, shots:
1) driver OB left
2) penalty
3) driver in trees on right
4) punch out
5) hole out from 143 yards
Finally found the perfect flippin’ pan. Can cook pancakes and eggs without a spatula.
It’s a 7” pan with the right slope on the sides to get it up and flipping.
The proposed US voter ID requirement for a birth certificate is interesting because it will select for organized people who plan for the future.
That’s not necessarily a bad group of people to cater to.
Or a passport … people who have traveled internationally are also fairly good selection criteria.
I don’t think this is going to work out for the people pushing it the way they think it will.
It's an anti-pattern when people start to use a more authoritative voice when speaking out their product and ideas.
Status: anxiously awaiting Antigravity update, as the current version is useless because it spikes the CPU.
Being a parent and having a child with autism has to be tough.
Imagine being a child and having a parent with autism — the lack of connection and empathy has to be disheartening as a child.
Glad to see some normal Democrats getting some publicity — case in point is Andy Beshears on the Daily Show last night.
I struggle to deal with people who project of certainty of outcome.
I get energized by the uncertainty of outcome, and the goal of searching for the actions that get us there.
The pendulum has changed direction for football offensive / defensive advantage.
In both NFL and college, the championship game came down to defensive powerhouses with capable offenses. The past 15 years saw the rise of “offense is the best defense” to the point it was basketball-paced football.
These pendulum swings arise due to the advantage of being different. Enough of the competition spends their time and money on being the best at the same thing that an advantage arises by prioritizing a different aspect of the game. It’s fun to see participants in a 150 year old game evolve its strategy using comparative advantage.
I’ve been messing with AWS ECS today. For a fairly simple app / worker setup, it’s a PITA.
I had kamal working much quicker before I had access to AI tools.
Being driven is working with clarity and purpose. And your discomfort becomes your fuel.
- Mark Immelman
My wife: I’m going to buy this food because my husband loves it, and I always see him eat it.
Me: I’m not buying that food because I can’t stop myself from eating all of it.
If you were in an Internet forum in 1995, you’d realize how much the current world feels like a 1995 Internet forum.
Sometimes, it takes 66 shots to get pissed enough to start doing something drastically different enough to start doing something different enough to have affects.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually closed the club face properly before.
Solid all around podcast on personal and team flourishing.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/econtalk/id135066958?i=1000747689415
I got what I finally feel like is closing the club face. At the beginning of the downswing, if I’m in the right setup, I can put as much pressure on the part of my trail hand circled in red. If I feel that and the lead hip counter balancing the club head, that seems to close the face properly.
My go-to breakfast so far in 2026. Scrambled eggs with Tabasco. Toast, tomatoes, and sliced banana peppers.
My teenage son calls me. But instead of asking for money, he asks for the username / password to the application he uses to pay for gasoline because it had logged him out.
A hackathon, but the output of a team is a prompt, and at the finale, the judged output will be the autonomous output of the prompt for each team.
The reason most people are afraid in the woods at night is because they think every little sound is an alarm bell.
But, they are just unfamiliar with the sounds of the woods.
And, they aren’t alarmed when the actual danger is present because they can’t get past the small issues.
This can be extrapolated to life, business, money, love, …
