It’s not a fair fight: randsinrepose.com/archives/hit...

It is 2026, and one of the most common ways to fix problems in Windows continues to be “restart the machine”.

What do you want to be when you grow up? randsinrepose.com/archives/the...

Does Congress have any power these days?

`I don’t understand folks who brag about spending a ton on tokens.`

Answer email/Slack/messages promptly, be unfailingly kind, and don’t be a jerk. The rest is details.

Ready to go. Always prepared: randsinrepose.com/archives/wha...

A new weather app? WHY YES. By the creators of Dark Sky? CAN I GET A HELL YES: acmeweather.com/blog/introdu...

Big Basin is one of the most magical places in NorCal, I camped there only a few weeks before it burned, and I have been dining on those memories ever since. I long to go back there and camp again someday.

Pretty sure that Trump doesn’t even know what he’s saying.

When it comes to music, the only question is whether Hysteria or Pyromania is a better Def Leppard album. And the answer is, I don’t know.

The hard part was never the code: randsinrepose.com/archives/ext...

You don't pick your bosses; you decide who you are with them: randsinrepose.com/archives/thr...

If you’re waiting on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or are still simply mad about Game of Thrones, I highly recommend Episode 4, which brought me to tears.

I kind’a think club music sounds all the same, then Spotify sneaks a new track by OVERWERK in my playlist, and I realize I am quite wrong.

Hustle is what we call chaos to make it sound fun.

Enterprise software makes a huge amount of money on services, which are humans who build stuff specific to the customer on the Enterprise platform. Problem is: if you’ve built an OK platform and OK integration, you don’t need those humans anymore — thanks, robots!

Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, we can’t.” Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, but now I will think about it a lot.” The latter sometimes change to Yes delightfully unexpectedly.

Spotify has a “build a playlist with a prompt” feature that does exactly what you think. This mornings: “Create a chronological list of Led Zeppelin hits, but sprinkle some Def Leppard in there ironically.”

Is that post designed to make you angry? www.ragecheck.com

Best article I’ve read on productivity systems in a long while. Humorous, personal, and universally applicable. Highly recommended reading.

I am, once again, testing a productivity system. It's going about as well as you'd expect: randsinrepose.com/archives/i-h...

While I am uncertain if normal users will adapt to the chatbot conversational interfaces, I am blown away by how quickly typing sentences to a robot makes every search interface I’ve used my entire life look like a clumsy toy.

Being an engineer means you like fixing broken stuff because it’s an opportunity to learn. (...on our best days)

Very often, a manager's job is to know when to do absolutely nothing: randsinrepose.com/archives/som...

Your three day response time to critical communications tells me exactly what I need to know.

Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.

You're either getting stuff done or talking about getting stuff done.

No plan, poorly equipped, but enthusiastically digging: randsinrepose.com/archives/im-...

I don’t judge mistakes, I judge reactions.

The robots spend a lot of time telling me things I already know.

Didn’t know Nobel Peace prizes were transferable. Always read the fine print, people.

A productivity truth: you will find less and less signal in every growing list of stuff to do.

The underutilized mind creates unnecessary drama.

Better resumes -- have an objective, tell me what you learned in past gigs, and sound like a human.

Stop explaining what you did. Explain what you are going to do.

Re: the additional Stranger Things episode. Ask yourself: who benefits most from this viral swirl of nonsense? The influencers who are going to their audiences now that Stranger Things is over.

I more I learn to effectively use AI tools, the more I believe the concept of an application is a clumsy, limiting container.

Hire people who believe they can do anything, but understand they will need help.

On a United flight with Starlink — and getting anywhere between 200 and 300mbs. This is nuts.

On the topic of figuring out what habits to build: randsinrepose.com/archives/the...

My secret weapon: early mornings without meetings.

When you say ""The facts are"", I hear ""These are the facts I want you to know.""

Disco what? open.spotify.com/track/0yin14...

Doing the right thing when it’s obvious is good management. Doing the right thing when everything is blowing up and everyone is full of rage is good leadership.

My reward for actively donating in the last election cycle is an ENDLESS and UNSTOPPABLE flood of political spam. Pro tip: this is an incredible strategy to get me to never donate again.

A friend gave me this phrase and I continue to appreciate it for framing controversial ideas, “Let me bullshit you some crazy.”