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...
s17e06: It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy
0.0 Context Setting It’s Thursday, 1 February in Portland, Oregon, and my study is a mess because I moved everything around. This was made slightly easier...
s17e05: Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers
0.0 Context Setting It’s Friday, 12 January 2024 in Portland, Oregon. Tomorrow’s weather ranges from a low of -9 Celsius to -5 Celsius, with which I...
s17e04: You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms
0.0 Context Setting Thursday, 11 January, 2024. Yesterday I used Llamaindex to shove a corpus of several hundred newsletter episodes into a word vector...
s17e03: Personality; A Rule about Designing Games
0.0 Context Setting It’s Wednesday, 10 January, 2024 in Portland, Oregon where it is still supposed to be cold and snowing over the weekend. Jurassic Park is...
s17e02: How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually
0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 9 January, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, where it’s wet and getting colder1 until the snow comes this weekend. Two things...