weekend reading

youtu.be/xEddsmnY228?... One finds lectures of folks reminiscencing about what intellectual life was like "before the great war" (number one, that is...) & starts to pick up on queer habits of speech otherwise lost to history before one's parents were even born

how do you like decentralization now?

powerful perspective I have had this realization myself

classical theory of computing is inadequate for true agents with autonomy LLMs — clearly crude instruments — indirectly reveal a new path and that’s the most interesting thing about them

AI has to seriously account for the distinction between prediction and explanation

turned 28 elder technology brother arc

it feels like first day back in school here

claude has gotten so good I have levered up in somethings even when I’m not using it

when Ellul said “I am somehow unable to believe in the revolutionary value of an act which makes the cash register jingle so merrily.” i felt that

i just had a “ha that’s a computer” moment surprising amount of things are computers

looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )

video games are very impressive software

slowly but surely i am trending towards writing a whole webrtc stack ( this evening I’m building an SFU )

i think i’m going to write a long form essay on all the things i love about technology ( mostly pulled from my tweets on software/technology )

don’t stop making music

looking for books that tell the story behind large deals ( there’s one about a bank merger at the tip of my tongue )

any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language

some of y’all are very tedious

book i want to read: Identity and Agency in Virtual Spaces someone write it please

expert programmers have a comfort with latent spaces that goes hard

modern day mating call

i go back and forth between enjoying the artistic talk about computing/internet to screaming “build something mf”

everyday i thank Al Gore for inventing the internet

any good programming language has to be a consistent source of drama keep that in mind when you’re designing your language

the idea of personal computers was a mistake computing is a social activity

i think the computer is primarily a way for people to depend on each other

whatever replaces the document model will have to allow for infinite fracturing

listening to music with your friends is a top tier experience

a computer is a machine that carries stories

this one time i was talking to a crypto person and 15m into a normal conversation he was like one day wallets will encapsulate all features of a browser that one interaction permanently tinted my view of crypto/web3 people

work is love made visible

“most important thing is to have a strong vision, be selfish, to build something for yourself, and then be able to convince others to do the same

writing position papers is fun when it’s about a speculative new future for the web

some of you have never created enterprise value i can tell

got something i’ve been working towards for ages but it’s anticlimactic bc i’m already working on the next thing

what comes to mind when you hear “charismatic software”

i have learned more about the mouse and keyboard from the browser work than i care to admit

wait sacrifice == make sacred i sacrificed my time to workout i made my time sacred to workout

how many promises can your new technology carry? how new and compelling are these promises?

ability to generate goals has to be a part of agency

a good nap can change your life

only thing on my mind these days

build technologies with nerve

rejecting PRs for lacking magic

people have no idea the leverage that comes with software you can turn abstractions into institutional realities

turn abstractions to institutional realities