My latest musical discovery is "Valtos", a band that mixes traditional Scottish music with electronic beats:

A mistake that many people make is to be overly confident that they won't change their mind about something. Yes, you may never change your mind, but you should remain open to the possibility, otherwise you're restricting yourself from growth.

I have zero desire to beat someone or apply any sort of physical violence. I have zero desire to apply any sort of non-physical violence either. In fact, I would prefer if I knew I never caused any other person any discomfort ever. If a person can be a safe space, I want to be that person.

Observation: I can keep drinking nothing but unsweetened tea, but if I decide to sweeten the tea for a variety in taste, the next unsweetened cup tastes extraordinarily bland.

The great thing about Bluesky is that I still see people post about actual coding. On X (Twitter), I practically just see people talking about "oneshotting things with Claude Code".

I spent some time with a 9-year old boy. He told me all the easter eggs that you can unlock in Google search. His favorite is the game that you can access when searching for "bubble tea".

A friend knows Old Greek, Old Hebrew and Latin. She said that it'll be written on her tombstone that "she learned three dead languages, hopefully they'll be useful to her now", and I love her humor!

People will have one conversation with a younger person and then write thinkpieces about the mindset of the entire Gen Z.

Something interesting I've observed: I don't use generative AI for writing because I prefer to come up with every phrase and word myself, whether I write in English or German; but if I need the same text in both languages I will use machine translation because I don't want to do that twice.

From the people who brought you "naan bread" and "chai tea", the hot new dish that's served everywhere is "lentil dal".

As I copied some files to a USB drive for backup I realized that it's been a looong time since I last used any form of physical storage medium; most files are backed up to the cloud and sent around wirelessly.

Happy New Year everyone! 🎆🍾 May 2026 be a good year for you 🍀

I can't stop thinking about that video I saw where someone claimed that if alcohol didn't yet exist, was discovered today, and we would apply the modern standards of toxicity, the maximum allowed dose would be half a glass of wine - per year!

Music streaming services should have a feature where I can save songs that I want to remember that they exist but they should never come up when playing music randomly.

If you need a quick website with just a few links, you might think of Linktree. I found an interesting alternative fully hosted in Germany/EU with no tracking/cookies etc., it's called Wonderlink: en.wonderlink.de Free to get started, premium plan for 5€/month. #privacy

I was today years old when I realized that in the song "Because the night" the last line of the first verse is "Love is a banquet". I always misheard it as "Love is a bandwidth".

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This is the sane position on LLMs/GenAI ⬇️

The problem with watching news as a means to understand the world is that the news doesn't cover the common events in the world; it covers the rare events because only those are news-worthy.

Is there something you'd like to tell me, but been afraid to do so in public, or even in private with your name attached? I accept anonymous feedback now: www.admonymous.co/lukasros

Here's a reminder that I host two free weekly virtual grop coworking sessions, if you want to get stuff done with additional motivation and accountability; for more information and signup go to: coworkwith.lukasrosenstock.net

PSA: The outrageous thing one young person said for attention in a TikTok video is not the mindset of the entirety of Generation Z.

Every month Google reminds me that people - probably worried about their future prospects - search for "can introverts get married" and land on one of my blog posts where I write about an archetype that I call "the married introvert", which is entirely unhelpful in answering that question.

Isn't it interesting how both the political left and the political right argue that public discourse has shifted too much into the other direction? Obviously they can't both be correct.

I wrote a blog post about my experience at TREEWEEK TWO and somehow it wasn't automatically syndicated to Bluesky, so while I'm checking my blog settings here we go manually:

We live in a world where some people can't stop talking about a shrimp deal while others can't stop talking about shrimp welfare.

A few drops of tea from my teapot land on my phone, and my phone is like "that fingerprint doesn't match".

Apparently this is uncommon, especially as a man, but I'm sure I've never spent time seriously imagining myself being in a situation where I have to physically defend myself or anyone else.

If a certain job is required for a functioning society, you cannot judge people for taking that job; when they complain about working conditions and you suggest they could just do another job, you're basically saying that they shouldn't suffer but someone else should.

The problem with online gender and dating discourse is that it works on the assumption that all men/women are the same.

I'll never understand how people can just forget to eat ... don't you get, like, hungry or something?!

When prices for a product rise, many are quick to blame "corporate greed". While that certainly is a real thing, there's also this: companies, especially when venture capital is involved, often set prices unsustainably low to gain market share. As a result, customers get used to unrealistic prices.

In September you should all come to hang out with me at @nowsimon.bsky.social's one-week retreat TREEWEEK TWO near Berlin: simonohler.com/treeweek-two

Stock photography sites are like "here's our 100% AI-free catalog" but also "here's our AI-based editing tools".

After some of the recent social media discourse I have concluded what many men mean when they want to "end wokeness". It boils down to wanting 3 things: 1) Objectify women they find attractive. 2) Openly criticize women they don't find attractive. 3) Nobody ever calling them out for doing 1) or 2).

I will be in London 🇬🇧 at the end of the month. Any mutuals who want to meet? DM me for exact dates.

Have the women who expect their date to pick them up or call them an Uber ever considered the security risk of sharing their home address with someone before the first date?

Planning a trip from Germany to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. No airplanes involved. 100% rail travel. Choo choo 🚂

Journaling about my interactions with people in my personal CRM is a bit of effort and sometimes feels like a waste of time but I always regret not doing it if I don't.

I'm not yet sure how valid and reproducible studies about brain detoriation from too much usage of generative AI are, and I don't want to feed into the panic that often accompanies new technology. (Continues in replies ... 🧵)

Yesterday I accidentally deleted the production database on a server and we lost 24 hours worth of data. How's your week going?!

Is it just my observation, or is most of the outrage about overpaid white collar fake jobs actually directed at women in these jobs and not men?!

Scientists: According to our current data, A is our most confident answer. Research will continue. Conspiracy Theorists: It's so obvious that the answer is B and everyone who says A is stupid, corrupt or both. (Continues in replies ... 🧵)

I said this before and I'll say it again: the problem with large systems and organizations is that they can be 99% flawless, but because of their sheer size, 1% problems is enough to gather a sufficient amount of anecdotes to spin into a narrative that the whole thing is broken beyond repair.

I feel like I am doing too much while also not doing enough. It's a case of Schrödinger's doing

"Have you considered talking to ChatGPT about your problem?!"

When you're think you're at a Latin Party but then realize you're in Bollywood ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3vO...

In war, one side will claim that they only want peace and justice whereas the other wants their annihilation, but the problem is that both sides claim they're the side that only wants peace.

The idea that Indian managers primarily want to hire other Indians is a slightly racist meme, but on the other hand I live in an area where Indians aren't even a primary immigrant group and still the local Burger King is entirely staffed by South Indians.

Any mutuals in Vienna 🇦🇹 who would be interested in a meetup on the weekend (21st/22nd)?