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Here's my Saturday: debug a SwiftData crash. Switch to recording training data for a screen prediction model. Fix a ChromaDB connection error. Set up a WhatsApp bot. Research Ohalo's genetic breeding tech for fun. Look up tmux because I've never used it. Text my brother. By 2pm it’s a blur. Your screen knows, though. Every tab you opened, every terminal command you ran, every error message that…
Memex records my screen, runs OCR, and makes everything searchable via ChormaDB vector storage, and a well-designed MCP integration. Here's what I actually use it for: Finding stuff I forgot to bookmark. An article I read but can't find. A terminal command that worked. A URL from a Slack thread I closed. Context switching. I work on five projects. When I come back to one after a few days, I ask…
At this point everyone is talking about vectorization of company data and making it available over MCP. ( 1 , 2 ) I built a simple OCR ⇒ vector storage ⇒ MCP server and don't really use it. The only time I remember using it for something useful was to lookup an article that I’d read but couldn’t find. This doesn’t scream ~1 Trillion Dollars~ of enterprise value. In theory I can ask it to summarize…
Two quotes come to mind: The actions you do are your company culture. Be good because future AI is watching. - Andrej Karpathy Taken together this means that for the first time, culture can be audited in real time. This might feel Orwellean. But a russel conjugate of real time company cultural audits is process validation. Here’s an example - daily standup. These spiral into rabbit hole…
As cities become more dense, they become less livable. But there are good reasons people choose cities: Access to jobs Access to arts, culture, entertainment Memetic copying of other people This shows up in sayings like “New York or Nowhere". There will be a tipping point where people opt away from the largest cities - New York, San Franciscio. This starts with remote workers that can use Starlink…
A few things I like about blogs: shows interest areas and initiative provides a true and somewhat verified (publicly shared) record of thoughts over time helps shape and improve thinking allow a person to get to know you on a deeper level and at their own pace and meander along pathways that are interesting to them a searching mechanism to meet other folks that have similar interests A few things…
Books as human software editor Books are the software editor that changes how a person makes decisions. A short list of books that changed my thinking in 2025: On Character: Choices that define a life Written by a general that got dismissed because of changing political tides. Focused on living simply and honestly and doing what is required. This person was responsible among other things for…
The least likely and the strange is where the most value capture will happen in the world ahead. It's easy to point to areas that are going to leap ahead (Robotics, Healthcare enabled by A.I.). But it's much harder to point towards areas that other people aren't pointing and say, yes, that's a direction worth heading in. Three unlikely outcomes: Shift towards living in cities reverses and people…
tldr; know what your job really gets you...remote contracting is good for work life balance and income arbitrage, big tech (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple) is good for having babies, skill building, and playing made up games -- aka fiefdom expansion; small tech is good for agency, work alignment, and provides upside but will kill your personal life. Indiepreneur is only good once you have…
Growing up I knew that learning advanced math made no sense. But now, simple math like back propagation… and this matters… no need to spend 5 years learning crazy proofs…can be used to make a robot move. Yes, there is a lot more going on under the hood. But getting started and reaching the frontier is possible in less than 6 months. And if you really grind or have a cs/math/technical background…