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Donald Trump was not a Manchurian Candidate, created in a secret Russian/Chinese lab to infiltrate and bring down the United States of America. Nor, I believe, is he personally in the pocket of Russian and/or Chinese interests, blackmailed and bribed into weakening his country at the bidding of overseas masters. But sometimes it’s very difficult to distinguish between Trump’s *actual* actions and what he *would* do if he were a foreign plant or catspaw.
Some really good nuggets in here. There’s a LOT to think about these days…
Wow.
Teams are bolting AI onto everything they can, often without slowing down to define which problems the tools should actually solve. The result can be what some researchers now call “workslop”—AI-generated output that looks productive but doesn’t actually move anything forward. More dashboards no one looks at. More summaries no one reads. More content, less signal.
This is a painfully good read. :-/
I am just so tired, and so bad at crafts. I dream of the day we can all take it down a notch without shame: skipping an event here, ignoring a made-up holiday there. What I need is a quorum. Without it, my kids will continue to feel neglected — all their friends went to the world fair, and they said the food at Venezuela was incredible — and I will continue to feel guilty, pretty much all the time, but especially when I’m staring at my ceiling at 3 a.m.
This conversation will be one of the single most important ones of the decade—maybe the rest of our lives.
All hail the personal website! Henry’s is an extraordinary example of one.
Good friend of mine just started working at Meter. Fascinating company.
Can’t overstate how big this all feels.