Love what kasey is doing at Primitive for product and engineering team coordination. Got a lil preview some time ago and lemme tell ya, you can see kasey’s multidisciplinary research background and care for craft shining through

kasey klimes@kasey.bsky.social · 3w ago

some news: I’m building a startup! we’re solving coordination by building real infrastructure for your most important asset—your decisions. it’s called Primitive. we can’t wait to share it with you. getprimitive.ai

loop engineering — you mean cybernetics?

re: tools for thought and AI, the problem is no longer blank page anxiety, but rather generating too much insight and getting lost

some news: I’m building a startup! we’re solving coordination by building real infrastructure for your most important asset—your decisions. it’s called Primitive. we can’t wait to share it with you. getprimitive.ai

if english is a programming language, then why isn't your codebase in english? newsletter.getprimitive.ai/p/english-is...

English isn't a programming language (yet)

If English is a programming language, then why isn't your codebase in English?

newsletter.getprimitive.ai

my personal geriatric millennial shrine is to animal collective but the objectively correct answer in the rearview mirror here is “all my friends”

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

had a debate last night about the definitive millennial song. some contenders: mgmt’s “kids,” yeah yeah yeah’s “maps,” kanye’s “all of the lights,” arcade fire’s “wake up,” postal service’s “such great heights,” animal collective’s “my girls,” lcd soundsystem’s “all my friends,” stroke’s “last nite”

the alignment problem

if you’re on a cross-functional product team, has AI made collaboration easier or harder?

I have a hard time imagining what it would feel like to lose sight of earth

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

i would like to be a better person than this but it turns out I immediately think less of someone the moment I see them walk into a blank street coffee

I feel like AI-generated text+code is probably net-positive for society and AI-generated images+video is probably a net-negative

slipping this diagram into totally irrelevant discourse just to show off how big my brain is

one of my firmest beliefs about doing life well is that every few years you should do something that scares the absolute shit out of you

if you live in a city other than the one you grew up in, how do you think it has changed you?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I wish it were easier to connect with our glorious cybernetic hivemind without staring at a screen. Who’s building this??

it has come to my attention that my most persistent unconscious tick may not be normal

first up: waymo is good, actually. blocking it is dumb. yes, there are trade-offs. but jobs are fungible, lives are not. yes, dollars leave the local economy — so negotiate reinvestment on those terms, don't block it altogether.

kasey klimes@kasey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

splitting my time between twitter and bluesky so they can get my lib takes and you guys can get my conservative takes

so, what do you guys think of ai

splitting my time between twitter and bluesky so they can get my lib takes and you guys can get my conservative takes

I’m fascinated by the difference in cultural timbre of artemis II vs. spacex

ai horseshoe theory seems to me both the labs and the doomers are selling the same idea of where ai is headed

saw a bald eagle in prospect park today

build apps that bring you good news

my fiancées closest friends are all named Sarah and for some reason they refuse to refer to each other by last name

what softwares are my user research homies working with these days?

built myself an ios app with primitive that tells me whether I can walk, run, or dilly dally to make the train

a tax on QSBS is a tax on worker ownership. this NYS proposal is not the progressive move they think it is.

no really, better weather is coming 🌞and you should be the first to know🌞 Perfect Day is a weather app that emails you as soon as your perfect day is on the forecast how do you define your perfect day? with a poem, ofc perfectday.nyc

Perfect Day

The weather app for touching grass.

perfectday.nyc

open-ended composability is the norm in advanced professional tooling and in children’s toys, but it’s rare in between