A Morning Ramble to Kick Off the Week I think I need a morning ramble to kind of kick off the week because, well, a few ideas that I’m kind of half baking. Early stages of baking. The Week as a Problem-Solving Unit I like this idea of maybe using a week to solve problems. So: on Monday morning, maybe the question is: what are the big problems I want to solve? ...
Boris Cherny - the person who literally built Claude Code - just posted his 10 tips for using it. I read through them nodding the entire time. I’m a comedian. I don’t write code. Well - I didn’t used to. Now I kind of do? But the point is: I started using Claude Code for non-coding work, and I apparently arrived at the same workflows as the guy who made the thing. ...
Not how we say it as an insult - he’s an influencer - but the real thing. Maybe it’s because I’m reading Joan Westenberg’s ideas around it in her pdf, about how real influence isn’t about vanity. So what is it? Well, maybe it’s the ability to change minds. Casey Newton writes about AI. He wrote about Spotify’s new AI playlist thing and, right after, I tried to find that feature on Spotify so I could do it myself. ...
My distraction of choice lately has been hacker-news which feels to me the way I bet comedy twitter feels to a scientist. Super interesting without a hint of jealousy about why they didn’t come up with the “butt as head” meme. (that’s not a real meme btw, at least not yet) anyway, most of the stuff on there is blog posts from people. usually i’ll then spend some time looking at the person’s other posts, which is how I came upon this piece by Mario Zechner: ...
Okay, this video is all over the place. I’m editing it right now. It’s chaos. So I’m going to show you real fast, a speedy version of the whole thing, which is going from voice vomit, which I’m doing right now this in super whisper. That’s what this is all the way to publishing something on my blog. And so we’ll do that real fast. So let me have an idea here. It’d be cool to have a post about me showing everyone how I do my flow. So create that for me, Diane, and then I’d hit.
That’s the first axiom in the book Existential Kink which I’ve just started reading based on a rec from Paul Millerd. The basic idea here being - whatever situation you’ve got in life, there’s a part of you, deep down in the caverns of your sticky subconscious, that wants it that way. My mind quickly gets stuck in the logistics of it, the logic of it, which I think the author Carolyn Elliott would say is a trap. That’s the ego wanting to make sense of things, but none of this makes sense. That’s how it works. It operates beyond and outside of the rules of logic and reason where 2+2 = farts. ...