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Zugunruhe, or Why You Suddenly Want to Rewrite Everything

The Germans have a word for the restlessness caged birds feel when the season turns: zugunruhe. Flight lust. The bird hops, flails at the bars, cries out. It doesn’t reason its way there. It just knows it should be somewhere else.

August 2026

Run AI models locally on your Mac Uncovered.ink - Judge a book by its writing 🐟 The Naturalist’s Library (common trout and northern char) ☠️ Nightcrawler - autonomous penetration testing agent that runs entirely on a smartphone photosynthesis - capture two lenses as once Swiftlet (Run 35B and 80B Qwen models on ordinary Apple devices, including iPhones.) Neal Stephenson - Writing by Hand is Good…

The Phoenix Project

Just finished “The Phoenix Project” and the idea that stuck with me is Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints. Every system has one bottleneck, and any improvement made anywhere else is a mirage. Find your constraint, protect it, and stop congratulating yourself for optimizing things that were never the problem. Once you see work this way, you can’t unsee it. My gripe is the same one I have with most…

A Wedding Toast for TJ

Degeneracy is a symptom

Best quote I’ve read in a long while about our current global economy:

Astoria, 2 leadership lessons.

Two leadership lessons I learned from Astoria

Walla Walla Wine Country

Quick weekend trip to Walla Walla Washington wine country. Exercised our Harvest Host membership and stayed with Eternal Wine the first night and Burwood Brewing the second.