*The Triffin Dilemma has no clean exit within the current monetary system. You either run deficits forever or break the global financial plumbing trying to stop* View quoted note →

*The hardest truth is that a few dozen people do not enslave billions by being superhuman. They do it by sitting above systems that most people cannot see, cannot exit, and cannot coordinate against.* View quoted note →

*And I would like to suggest that slowing the fuck down is the way to go. Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code. Anything that defines the gestalt of your system, that is architecture, API, and so on, write it by hand. Maybe use tab completion for some nostalgic feels. Or do some pair programming with your agent. Be in the code. Because the simple act of having to write the thing or seeing it being built up step by step introduces friction that allows you to better understand what you want to build and how the system "feels". This is where your experience and taste come in, something the current SOTA models simply cannot yet replace. And slowing the fuck down and suffering some friction is what allows you to learn and grow.*

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

Thoughts on slowing the fuck down

*Every answer you accept from a black box without question is a rep you didn't do. A thought you didn't have. A muscle that got weaker. It's more distance that grew between you and the primary source material… AI was supposed to elevate us. Used mindlessly, it domesticates us.* View quoted note →

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Fico Ossio (@FicoOssio) on X

Sometimes an image stays with you for years. When the first photo of Henry Cavill as Superman was released, it instantly felt iconic — Superman ...

*“Swormlure-5… is a potent synthetic attractant that mimics the scent of open wounds, drawing adult screwworm flies to the bait, where they die.”*

USDA, TDA to deploy Swormlure Bait in eradication effort against NWS

The pest control method, combined with sterile fly production, was successful in eradicating NWS decades ago.

*Our education systems, social safety nets, and concept of "work" are the Kodak and Blockbuster of social structures — optimized for a linear world*

AI's Social Trap

The article argues that society is trapped in reactive, experience-based thinking that worked for linear innovation but is fatally inadequate fo...

*The complexity that feels insurmountable at the macro level dissolves when you tackle it step by step, in tighter scope. AI excels at that. The real constraint isn't complexity — it's whether the context can be digitized. And most institutional knowledge, given time and the right tooling, can be.*

The Workplace Blind Spot

Most knowledge workers assume their role's complexity will protect them from AI. I held the same belief — until I was proven wrong, twice. The mo...

*bottlenecks are not natural obstacles – they are, in most cases, the consequence of increasing production until you hit a bottleneck. If AI removes a bunch of bottlenecks, that won’t be used to produce the same output faster and cheaper, it will be used to produce a lot more output until a new bottleneck is reached and requires human intervention*

finally we have created the silver bullet

from Fred Brooks' classic essay "No Silver Bullets"

The more chilling the winter, the more glorious the spring

*There's no firewall between the most capable people in business and the power of the state, business and state are just tools wielded as leverage over society in general. People tend to either think that businesses run the government, or that the government interferes with business, when in reality they are levers on the same machine.*

Stacker News

Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for All \ stacker news

Not just another money-grubbing lawsuit This stuff really freaks me out. Apparently, people are suing Meta and YouTube and all the other social med...

*The deeper story is this: for decades, COBOL modernization was a lucrative, slow-moving professional services business precisely because the complexity was intractable without armies of specialists. AI doesn't just make that cheaper — it potentially makes the entire consulting model obsolete. When the cost of understanding legacy code drops to near zero, the business model built on that cost collapses.* Claude

*Be small enough that the competitve pressure doesn't distort your priorities. Be opinionated enough that you can't be dragged into building the same thing as everyone else. Be capitally efficient enough that you don't need the growth rate that forces you onto the treadmill. Be weird enough that nobody can copy you without becoming you.*

Westenberg.

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason

Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direct...

*Fear is there to give you important information, not to paralyze you* View quoted note →

*Everyone is trying to figure out how to be their own boss before the system breaks* View quoted note →

*Extraction is psychological before it is financial* View quoted note →

*Get your financial house in order. I'm not a financial advisor, and I'm not trying to scare you into anything drastic. But if you believe, even partially, that the next few years could bring real disruption to your industry, then basic financial resilience matters more than it did a year ago. Build up savings if you can. Be cautious about taking on new debt that assumes your current income is guaranteed. Think about whether your fixed expenses give you flexibility or lock you in. Give yourself options if things move faster than you expect.* View quoted note →