Wishing the English teacher and the gym teacher many happy years together :-P
When the interviewer says "Where do you see yourself in five years?" It turns out you're not supposed to say "Living in a bog, handing out quests."
Thoughtful analysis is the flattening trend. www.warman.life/blog/2026-05... "IBM is the rare exception, tripling junior hires" It's amazing that IBM stagnated for decades but kept a seed of management discipline alive somewhere. Extreme "found a viable potato, grew okay in Marian soul" energy
The Great Flattening — How AI Capex Is Redrawing Tech's Org Chart — Warman Notes
Capital that once funded headcount is now funding GPUs. The org chart underneath is changing shape — and the titles printed on business cards may be the last thing to go.
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Watching the new YCombinator dogma of self improving AI loops reminded me of Dombrovsky's "The faculty of useless knowledge" - it gives emotional permission to not care about the hard part - people - because the new system will make such trivialities obsolete
Steve is an engineering VP at Microsoft and I find a similar pattern is showing up for product managers. I see lots of PMs who were already good now multiplying their impact with AI while weaker PMs are now using AI to generate work slop which is a waste of everyone’s time.
yup! it's still programming, but at a higher abstraction level and you still have to meticulously specify what you want and be able to debug if the genie has corrupted your wishes.
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
Incredible. losing is so fun in this game because of the error messages
Service jobs teach you to read body language to prevent problems because you can't afford problems
Erica Joy Astrella@ericajoy.astrel.la · last yr.one of my biases is that people who have worked service jobs do better work in office jobs, because you learn all manner of intangible skills in a service job. situations like this one teach a person how to creatively problem solve under pressure without folding. you don’t learn that in school.
Google docs popping up a "help me write" prompt next to the cursor will drive me to do long form writing in a desktop app. Or with a pen on paper. Honestly, a feather on parchment seems preferable to having my focus destroyed by a blinky prompt if I pause typing for 2 seconds to collect my thoughts.
Inversion: You can't defeat uncertainty with pessimism. The best pessimism can do is to save effort that would have be wasted by some of the experiments. But enough experimenting leads to experience. Experience reduces uncertainty. It might boil down to: You can't defeat uncertainty. Experiment.
We made a thing!
MotherDuck@motherduck.com · 2y ago💥 MotherDuck's native integration is now LIVE on @vercel.com Marketplace 💥 Developers can now deploy MotherDuck for their Vercel projects when building embedded analytics or data applications and components for the web. Learn More: motherduck.com/blog/motherd...
There is uncertainty in all technical work. The only control you really get is prioritization, so when the time is inevitably up, the most important work will have gotten done. Starting from a prototype and building up follows from this.
Seth Godin@sethgodin.bsky.social · 2y agoYou’ve already failed No project is going to exactly match every hope you have for it. And even before you ship the work, you've already succeeded. No project is totally worthless. So, given that failure and success are on a spectrum, at least partly out of our control, the real question is: Now…
I did not think I had another social network in me but here we are.