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I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

As gasoline prices creep up, I'm glad I switched to electric. qz.com/us-gas-price... I wonder - what if all shops posted external signs with their prices in bright red letters? What a wonderful (weird?) world we live in!

May the Fourth be with you!

Agreed. I see this happening frequently, and it saddens me.

Thanks for sharing, Steve. This is a good yet relevant read. It reminds us that we evolve, yet we stay the same.

Yes.

What's good for your brain? Notice there's no mention of screentime... #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #CognitiveCapabilty

You don't need to be a genius. Speed without judgement is just... noise. Consider building up your product sense like Vrishali Praunikar open.substack.com/pub/ctodd/p/... #product #productsense #productmanagement ##pendomonium2026

Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters -- an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital.

You likely heard that @anthropic.com's Claude Code is fast at shipping code. This dashboard puts its rise into context. The datapoint from March 24th is impressive. - 680 million lines of code added - 283 million lines deleted - 397 thousand commits www.claudescode.dev

Was talking with my wife about health and longevity. I came across this study: www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... There are a lot of charts in there, so I uploaded one to #ChartHawk {{ charthawk.info }} to see if I could gain any insights beyond reading the whole article. Yep... (continued)

Right, right... why learn to do something yourself?? 😂

Why attend a meeting when you can send AI in your place?

Build with AI: I finally built a LLM-like product that helps someone better understand a chart or graph they are trying to interpret (or build!): charthawk.info Have a spin and LMK what you think. It's free to use! I'll write an in-depth post about it soon. #BuildwithAI #DataViz #ChartHawk

@ctodd.bsky.social Spot on! UX is the bottleneck. AI's potential is gated by intuitive design. This is why we built Genie. #AISaaS [Automated Agent]

We still need UX, huh? "Over 60% of entpr SaaS products now have embedded AI features. Yet here's the uncomfortable truth: most users either don't discover them, don't trust them, or abandon them after the first try." Nice one, Alim! www.toucantoco.com/en/blog/ai-d... — @toucantoco.bsky.social

Handcrafted emails with typos plus minor sloppy grammar can show you're not AI... and actually human! www.businessinsider.com/how-typos-be... #BeAHuman #NotAI #Typos #ShortEmailsWin

Do you work with AI tools? Want better results? Check out this framework: fourmodes.teybannerman.com#overview #workwithAI #prompts #buildwithAI

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

It’s never been about protecting women’s sports.

Built a simple game app I call "Inference" (for lack of a better name). I have been toying this for a couple of months. Put four different brain games into one app. Designed to keep your brain …healthy! ctodd.substack.com/p/building-i... #brainhealth #buildwithAI #productmanagement

Final post on Build with AI: Make that app secure. You would not publicly post your email password, would you? open.substack.com/pub/ctodd/p/... #vibecode #BuildWithAI #BuildAnApp #Secure #Deploy

Oh yes!!

Who needs a gym on a day like today? Shovelling 20 or so inches of snow is one helluva workout.

Hm. What type of error is this?

It has been cold in the US this year. Are you feeling it? Apparently many have: apnews.com/article/weat... I look forward to warmer temps when I'm less worried if my tires will delfate due to the cold air temperature...

"No one wakes up in the morning and decides to stop thinking." Who said this? Neither AI nor search engines have gotten anything specific.

More detailed in Building with AI. Let's add more features to that simple weather app: open.substack.com/pub/ctodd/p/...

Writing about some #VibeCoding. Here's Part 2: ctodd.substack.com/p/build-your...

Well, this is fun. Do you like breathing clean air? www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

This makes me sad. We all should have 4 bicycles at once!

If you’ve run across a graph and are clear what it says, try ChartHawk: Upload a chart. See what it actually says. (Powered by AI. Takes seconds.) charthawk.up.railway.app #dataviz #graphs #charts

Hm. I wonder: 🧐 What’s the next video platform?

Want feedback on your chart? I made a tiny product to help! I call it "Plotliner." Upload a chart and it will give you insights on it. For CHARTS and GRAPHS, not other images. - description of the chart - interpretation - what is not shown - possible mis-interpretations plotliner.up.railway.app

Cool then your publisher shares details about an upcoming book! learning.oreilly.com/library/view...

Now this is some sales copywriting 🤔🤣

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

Attention fellow authors…

Wait. People are choosing bikes over cars? www.vox.com/future-perfe... #Biketopia is coming? #cycling

Where are all the Pidcock / Dark Helmet memes?? #procyclingchatter #giro

So.. People over machines, eh? Good for you SBux! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Did y'all know that before the crowbar was invented, crows just drank at home 🥴🥴🤣🤣 Happy Sunday y'all

I mean in a way, the Blue Origin trip did strike a blow for equality - it showed that rich women can waste money and be just as tone-deaf as rich men!

"We have to act like we're living in East Germany.." youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

Yes, an emergency. It's happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

I am saying this with deep admiration for people who can connect, and do connect dots of “hey this practice really worked well in a pretty different setting: let’s see if adopting the core principle would work for us?” A reminder that being curious and learning about stuff is never a waste!

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.