"The last 75 years of software development are not suddenly irrelevant because of LLMs, and if you want to be a true platform for the future, then playtime is over—you have to actually make the thing work."
"perhaps grief can be seen as a kind of exalted state where the person who is grieving is the closest they will ever be to the fundamental essence of things...there is a transformative aspect to this place of suffering."
I have a coworker who is grieving their father, who I knew, and was one of the good ones. In my notes last week I wrote, "Grief is the most universal human experience, but experienced differently by every human, and no human wants to experience it fully. In this way it is the thing that brings us the closest to God."
The feelings of grief honor the one we are grieving.
Diminishing those feelings, or attempting platitudes about God's will, dishonor the mystery of the Greatest Love and its attempts to connect with its creation.
When grieving, find those that hold without speaking. Find quiet, complex music.
I stopped writing blog posts about this day in 2019.
"It’s good to be beyond the forgetting and on to the remembering."
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A long meander about a normal if premature eye surgery and a chance to retell a weird story from 25 years ago
"Every so often a new AI development comes along and great excitement ensues as people stumble over themselves, convinced that the key to intelligence has been unlocked. Maybe it will happen someday, but I rather doubt it."
"no one ever sees the looming spectre of our In Progress backlog"
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First bike ride post-eye-op. 11m @ 10mph. Ran into a friend and rode w/ them for a while which was nice. Eye did not bother me too much. Ever have bad sunglasses that cause glare when the sun hits them at an angle? It's like that in the one eye. Light sensitivity wasn't terrible with my darkest big wraparound cycling glasses on.
That was the longest I'd been outside in 10 days.
So I really like switch-lit.com -- the concept, the design...
I started a story with a friend and they fizzled out after a couple of rounds. I asked another friend and they initially expressed interest in doing it with me but then never followed up.
So: anyone in range here interested in trying Switch-Lit with me?
Just me dancing at my standing desk in my new off the peg reading glasses. 👴🏻
"To live mythically is to *not* centre yourself as the hero, nor to fancy yourself the only ‘player character’ in a world of non-player characters"
