s19e05: The first stage is denial
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, 7 November, in Portland, Oregon. We have a dog now, so I walk the dog. Sometimes -- most of the time! -- I do not look at...
s19e04: Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism
0.0 Context Setting It’s Monday, October 28 2024 and I’m writing this in Portland, Oregon, where just five miles away a ballot box was set on fire destroying...
s19e03: Kill Your Gods
This episode was written on Monday October 14 and finished on Wednesday October 16. I think you can tell, unfortunately, that it was interrupted. I don’t...
s19e02: For Informational Purposes; Product management is hard, a reminder; Shadow IT
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 9 October 2024 in Portland, Oregon, where it is still unseasonably warm. I have a puppy now. She’s a good girl. 0.1 Events:...
s19e01: Do Reply; Use plain language, and tell the truth
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 29 August 204, which just so happens to be Skynet Sentience Day2! I am in Portland, Oregon, where the high is 90f / 32c and...
s18e10: Sure, Fine, Crushed It; Smarts
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 17 May in Portland, Oregon, where the sky is mostly blue, the temperature is pleasant, and we don’t have to stay inside because...
s18e09: Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc...
0.0 Context Setting It’s a sunny, warm (promising to be hot, even?) Thursday 9 May 2024 in Portland, Oregon. No, you getting two newsletter episodes in a row...
s18e08: I Don’t Know, A Skateboard Or Something
0.0 Context Setting Monday, 29 April 2024 in Portland, Oregon, where it has gone cold and rainy again. 0.1 Events: Hallway Track, and Pulling the Cord...
s18e07: Do Not Reply Stickers; Computers were a Bad Idea; Two Things About Startups; and more tidbits
0.0 Context Setting A sunny and crisp Monday April 22nd in Portland, Oregon. Lately I’ve been flashing back to 1995, 16 years old and buying Oasis’s (What’s...
s18e06: Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems
0.0 Context Setting A grey Thursday morning in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2024. For April fools this week, Florian and I switched the homepage of our Do...
s18e05: Babel Notices; Our Scientists Recommend We Research Fusion Power; An Unusually Diverse and Complex Technology Estate; Neurodevelopmental Disorders
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 28 March, 2024 in Portland Oregon where it is grey and probably raining, but not raining too hard, a kind of listless rain,...
s18e04: What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually
0.0 Context Setting It’s the afternoon on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Terminal D, ATL airport, after helping out a new client with their 1.5 day workshop. I...
s18e03: A Re-introduction; Streaking Still Considered Harmful; Pulling the Cord and Then What?; Tiny Bits
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, 21 March 2024 in Portland, Oregon and a grey day outside. We had a long weekend of sunny, warm, cloudless weather and...
s18e01: Pulling the Cord; Do Not Reply; Fast User Switching
0.0 Context Setting Monday, 11 March, 2024 in Portland, Oregon after being away for a while. But I’m back now! That break allows for a new season, so I’m...
s17e12: Justice in Forensic Algorithms; The One With Retroactive Bereavement Fare Claims; Bits and Pieces
0.0 Context Setting Friday, 16 February, 2024 in Portland, Oregon and it is cold. I wanted to make this one short and I could not. I am sorry. Believe me,...
s17e11: Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different
0.0 Context Setting Wednesday, 14 February, 2024, the day after I made lots of pancakes and ate lots of pancakes. Quite a bit today. 1.0 Some Things That...
s17e10: Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 in Portland Oregon and I’m going to have pancakes tonight. I killed one of the goblin leaders by...
s17e09: What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide
0.0 Context Setting Monday, 12 February 2024 in Portland, Oregon. I started writing this around midday, but didn’t get around to finishing it after dinner....
s17e08: Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic Universe; Taxonomies and Online Community
0.0 Context Setting It’s around 9:30am on Thursday, 8 February, in Portland, Oregon. Everyone here has just had, is having, or is about to have, a winter...
s17e07: The Great Social Network Heist
0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday, 2 February 2024 in Portland, Oregon. It’s not raining, and I’ve just finished today’s Hallway Track. Of which... 0.1 Hallway...
