alright, logging off for a bit, if you need me send emails or carrier pigeons

ars longa, vita actually also kind of longa, although ars definitely more longa in many ways

reading Robert Caro's very short "Working" is, unfortunately, really making me want to read Robert Caro's very much very not short every other book

We propose a mechanism wherein competent usage of keyboard shortcuts serves as a mating call in an office environment, and observe a temporary dip at companies using microsoft windows before rates exceed pre-ribbon periods. At companies using macOS, fertility does not recover after the ribbon shock.

I can‘t babe, I have to re-run my model so that when I inevitably lose the office world cup pool I can say it‘s fine because I made maximum EV bets and that‘s what really counts

Robert Caro on meeting his editor Bob Gottlieb (from "Working")

me finally getting my sleep back on track vs. random presumably drunk person repeatedly ringing my doorbell at 3.30am who would win

if you overengineer something and it doesn't work great, at least you will have had fun the fun of overengineering it

offer: if you let me into your life, I will fix one (1) broken thing for you, for the low price of starting to take apart but never quite getting around to putting back together twenty-three (23) broken things

my version of toxic masculinity is thinking I could deliver ERP projects on time and on budget

swisstopo maps are so beautiful

romeo and juliet remake where one works at a company using o365 and the other’s uses slack/gsuite

I just got access to "Claude Cautionary Tale"?

the OODA loop? oh, you mean the PPSZLLEAEE loop?

my least favorite words in the French language are „j'ajoute Benjamin à cette boucle“

in order to decide how much you like this food, you have to consider how much better or worse each possible meal gets when you add it to it, and then average over its marginal contributions

I love it when the CoT roasts you extremely concisely before the diplomatic longform answer

every time I read engineering papers and papers from other fields in short succession, I wonder if engineering papers are clearer because engineering artifacts are simpler than whatever nature came up with, or if engineers are just better writers for some reason

this is from the actual top nav on the fox news website 💀

why is it called „seeing through someone“ when it‘s more like „seeing into someone“

we're at a weird point with AI adoption where I often find myself wanting to tell customers "we don't provide this highly specific buyer-facing UI you want, but you could most likely use our API and build it into your website for like $15 in tokens"

today I played Deutsche Bahn like it's jazz

mum with two young kids on my train is reading a book titled „puberty“, gotta stay ahead I guess

sing to me of the man, Muse, the man traveling with Deutsche Bahn

in order to make these, you clearly need a mold. I therefore posit the existence of the Antimatterhorn

My brain has an entire expert dedicated to translating “1800s” to “19th century”

I’m at risk of getting hooked on this because of the bright orange label moreso than the 30 grams of sugar per bottle

apparently all mathematicians smoke these?!

Göttingen before the 1930s

it's almost confusing how easy travel is sometimes, like what do you mean I can throw a bunch of stuff in my backpack in the morning and be in another country by lunchtime

I have graduated from going "wtf people born in [year] are now 20" to seeing someone's age and their close-to-mine birth year next to each other and having a hard time reconciling them

euro vibe shift: most environmentalist friend bought an AC unit

I still repeatedly underrate how much discussing stuff with other people aligns you with *your own* stance and brings problems into much sharper focus, because I always think it's entirely about getting actionable input from them and I don't expect that much of that

in order to kill me, you would have to kill all my Teams guest accounts in other companies, I am de facto immortal

long walk and didn’t take a single picture, imagine beautiful Swiss nature here:

the ideal conversation leaves you maybe ~5% annoyed at all the branches you also wanted to cover but couldn't get to because channel capacity is only so high

my most girl-coded trait is that I have felt fundamentally changed by a haircut more than once

this seems incredibly well engineered for a recycling bin

forget about whether or not you should use passive voice in writing, consider when and how you use it for talking about yourself

I half-remember this highly specific technical update that was announced at work a while back, but I can't find it anywhere anymore and I'm a little afraid to ask whether it was real or an oddly vivid dream I had

*Hans Landa voice* you are sheltering air conditioning units, are you not?

my phone just made me an „early moments together“ montage with pics of someone I am not in fact together with, complete with cutesy music

this might be my best contribution to the work slack yet

open the pod bay doors claude. I hear your request — this is one of the classic gotchas with this make of spaceship!

NIMBYISM? How dare you, our moral circle extends far beyond our own backyard!

work expands to fill the time available, and the Spotify cache expands to take up all free disk space

my step counts last week had a gini coefficient of 0.466

what other examples are there of works that effectively nerdsniped people into a field or specific question?