Baseball’s infield fly rule seems strange at first. It says that when there are runners on first and second with less than two out, and the ball is popped up to the infield, then it’s an automatic out, even if the fielder drops it. Without the infield fly rule, the fielder might let the ball [ ]
In the last post, I wrote about Forever Goals, which are outcomes I will always want. It’s something I can approach or maintain, not achieve. They are not SMART goals (i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound). For example, a SMART goal is phrased like this: “losing 5 pounds by the end of the year [ ]
I like infinite games. These are things you do over and over because they are fun and you want to get better at them. You want to get better so that you can make the game more fun and want to play it more. The game is the point. But I often do have a [ ]
In February 2021, I wrote Robotic Pair Programmers, which is my description of what I would want out of an AI coding assistant. I am pretty sure I was unaware of any good AI coding assistants, but a month later I took a look at Kite, which was an early attempt. I think there must [ ]
At the beginning of the year, I made a 26 for 26, which is a list of 26 mini-goals for 2026. Here they are with their status. I use ✅ for done, 👌 for easy, ⚠️ for hard but possible, 🛑 for probably will not get done. So 11/26 done, which is less than 13 [ ]
I hope you are able to use the latest Apple OSs with Siri AI completely turned off. I believe that, as described, it will be a fertile ground for malware reminiscent of Windows 20 years ago. I would love if anyone has information about the details of Siri AI that refute this. 1. Stopping prompt [ ]
Brian: And today, once again, we re talking about tools, but this time focus on tools for publishing and collaboration in writing, which is all a bit more complicated than what text editor do you use? So, to start at the simpler end of the spectrum, though, there s blogging and then there s publishing things like books and [ ]
Brian: I m Brian Hall. And today, I can t wait, we re talking about writing tools, talking about your writing stack. And we ll actually spread this out over two episodes. Today we re talking about the idea phase, outlining, collecting notes, and drafting. So just the writing part. We ll save publishing, editing, collaboration tools for a future episode. Transcript
Lou: Today, I would actually like us to look back two episodes where we talked about reader profile, so writing towards a specific reader, and to maybe double-click on that a little and talk a little bit more about the archetype readers that you might be writing towards. So a lot of the way I ve [ ]
Brian: Today we re talking about negative feedback. Lou: Oh boy. Brian: Yeah, yeah. No, this one s gonna hurt. When you write something and you share it, and then somebody tells you that it s absolute trash in some manner or another, and there s really no avoiding it. Transcript