In Philly with the fam. Trying to figure out: where’s the alt scene? Where do the outsider artists and indie musicians and poets hang out? Important to know for any city.
Drove six hours to Philadelphia with the fam. Drinking a glass of wine and then I plan to crash out hard. Big day tomorrow.
Contemplating how I, a computer science graduate who has spent his career in tech, could apply and get into a part-time MFA course.
I'm curious if my friends working on software projects in journalism or education struggle with making informed technology choices, and how they resolve those decisions today?
Dunkin Donuts coffee = Dutch Bros coffee = the actual worst.
I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules
Wheels up SFO, as we used to say on the socials a million years ago. See you soon, BOS.
Heading back to the east coast on a red-eye this evening. Excited to not sleep a wink.
What's the best foundational Ruby on Rails course you know of?
Thinking about showing up to meetings as a deepfake, Ozy Media style, but taking it as far as it can go. Like, could I show up as Crocodile Dundee? Or Jabba the Hutt? Or Snarf? Chalking it up as a mental health blip is incredibly problematic but I'm happy to do it
I just remembered that Flickr exists and isn’t being mishandled by Yahoo anymore. Is anyone I know still using it?
A quick reminder that if you’re anti-immigrant you’re anti-me, and we probably can’t be friends.
And also that if your argument is “but we came here legally!”, you mean via open immigration, which is no longer legal. It’s an ahistorical argument that doesn’t make much sense.
New thing I’m finding surprisingly joyful: telling phone scammers that the person they’re trying to reach has died. “For real?” one asked me this morning. Takes them right off-script.
Eugenics is unambiguously evil and people who claim it’s good actually are revealing an awful lot about themselves.
I don’t know how web 4.0 will be coded but web 5.0 will be coded with sticks and stones
My focus and attention have suffered this summer due to my mother's death. I'm doing counseling and trying to take care of myself through diet and exercise. Is there anything else I can do to be a more functional human, or do I just have to lean into it?
Every time I see an ad for a show on US broadcast television, I find myself asking: why on earth would I possibly want to watch this?
Observation: there’s a window of opportunity for everything.
I love hearing more and more electric vehicles on the streets. I wish they were buses and trams, but still.
Constantly hungry for constructive criticism, and particularly hungry for guidance during this moment of my life. What could I be doing better? But asking for this is an imposition and puts people in a really uncomfortable position. Doing my best.
I’m curious how many investors use the Peter Thiel Roth loophole to invest - and how many are scrambling now it looks like it might be going away?
You’ll know if something is really democratizing finance if it works as or more beneficially for people with low balances. What’s the threshold at which the gains outweigh the fees (including gas)?
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