Just like how you should always praise nice people. One of my recent unlocks as a leader was taking ownership of “Chief Vibes Officer.” I’ve focused on the hard skills as a leader – be present, listen, process fast, be decisive and communicate well. These are things that I am als … | Continue reading
I just let go of most of my camera gear I’ve acquired over the last 20 years – 3 camera bodies, 5 lenses and batteries, filters etc. I just cleaned them all for the final time, packed them carefully into backpacks for maximum protection and sent them all to MPB. A part of me is [ … | Continue reading
… but this is something to forget something key about human nature. That we tend to category, and tragically, ignore and trample upon goodness and niceness whenever it crosses our path. We are spoilt children who rarely pay heed to the glories we are gifted. … life is too awful t … | Continue reading
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While I knew how LED bulbs function, I’d not caught up on the mass manufacturing of them. It’s so fascinating to me what part of it is manual and what is automated… factory design and automation is a fascinating engineering problem that needs to balance human nature, current cost … | Continue reading
Sony dominates the sensor market, especially the full frame cmos sensor market. i am curious if there is a path for Leica to invest in technologies that can truly move the market forward and maybe faster than sony is currently moving it. of particular note, i hope they also push … | Continue reading
This is going to be very interesting to watch. | Continue reading
https://share.google/dTE3Q8yoKZDaNgsCE reddit this is a great test for Apple. They can bring the hammer down or they can let their users determine the future of the platform. if we let the users determine this isn’t acceptable they can keep the rules simpler and keep the platform … | Continue reading
The AI revolution is plateauing. The gap between the frontier models has narrowed to a statistical tie. Every week, a new release claims a 2% improvement on a coding benchmark that 99% of the world accepts but never verifies. We are drowning in evals and parameters, yet user enth … | Continue reading
One good question about self-esteem is this: can you love yourself even if people in your life think you are average in your achievements? High achievers defiantly say no. They need to prove something to other people every day. What they don’t realize is that proving themselves t … | Continue reading
And you need a tolerance for looking stupid, because you will look stupid. You’ll ask questions that seem obvious in retrospect. You’ll ship things that are broken or half-baked. You’ll fail in public where everyone can see it. That’s not a bug in the system, that’s the entire pr … | Continue reading
The phrase “Steal my top prompts” acts as a core sample of the current internet. It marks the web’s final transition from a library of discovery to a factory of efficiency. The phrase is efficient and dense. “Steal” signals high utility. It tells the reader that the content is ac … | Continue reading
an epic is fantasy when it causes you to “imagine.” i wholeheartedly agree with this definition. however, just because it remains as imagination in one storyline, does not mean those arcs *shouldn’t* be imagined. by that definition, any exploration of the past, as utilized by a s … | Continue reading
The desktop pc and laptop market is in turmoil. As a sign of the times, Microsoft is leveraging the AI moment to determine how it wants to play in the consumer space. However, their plan is currently being rejected by their ardent users. Let’s take a step back. Microsoft’s major … | Continue reading
If I told you a “Harvard MBA grad turned Bain consultant launched a successful business that gained traction by gamifying the payment experience”, what industry would you guess? Fintech? EdTech? Mobile gaming? Sports gambling? Stock trading? Dating app? A dating app that connects … | Continue reading
https://nikhilramesh.org I build intelligence at scale. My work exists at the intersection of seamless functionality and futuristic design, crafting systems where AI meets human intuition. Currently building the AI-native stack for the Office of the CFO. Previously architecting w … | Continue reading
This is what nano banana (pro) generated based on what it knew of gurupanguji.com. The distillation of information is so powerful. That image is dense with insights. If you squint at it a little, this is a path to much more powerful targeting. User profiles can now be far more de … | Continue reading
I love space technology. I grew up in a rocket family with my dad being a rocket scientist. So, space and aerospace technologies have always fascinated me. I want to call out that we live in one of the most exciting times for aerospace flight. Space X and now, Blue Origin are tru … | Continue reading
But it would be uncouth for me to pretend that there isn’t some self-interest involved. Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour, and I don’t have the right personality for it. I think I need not elaborate that the passion so many fee … | Continue reading
Older methods for archiving text messages often relied on carrier-level logging, which is incompatible with modern encrypted messaging. Our new solution allows third-party archival apps to integrate directly with Google Messages on a work device. When configured by your IT organi … | Continue reading
Essentially, I think the story of these circular deals is really no different than the big macro story about the AI boom itself. AI is the most promising technology out there, and we’re simply betting a lot of our economy on the hope that we can exploit its full potential. Should … | Continue reading
The new AI model, WeatherNext 2, can generate forecasts eight times faster than Google’s previous model, and is also more accurate in predicting 99.9 percent of variables like temperature or wind. WeatherNext 2 can pump out hundreds of potential outcomes from a particular startin … | Continue reading
Why take on additional supply chain risks adding another dependency when an LLM can likely kick out the subset of functionality needed by your own code to-order? > I still believe in open source, and I’m still doing it (in fits and starts). But one thing has become clear to me: t … | Continue reading
https://omarchy.org I love giving life to old computers. Over the weekend, I got my son a used M1 Macbook Air and so a 2014 intel based 13″ Macbook Pro that was flashed with Chrome OS Flex became available to tinker. I immediately got started setting up omarchy on it. Honestly, i … | Continue reading
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“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that’s using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I’ … | Continue reading
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One of the great causes of suffering is this maddening worry about what others think of us. I can go into its causes by pointing to evolutionary psychology and our hunter-gatherer roots, but that’s neither novel nor interesting. Rather, I want to delve into the asymmetry between … | Continue reading
The entire vibe of this is just delightful. I don’t think a product has made me feel this way in a long time. I want this. | Continue reading
Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the compl … | Continue reading
this really is getting good and I particularly appreciate that it’s all tied to one subscription. one of the things I learned from Amazon prime is that the more you keep adding value, the lower your churn rate is going to be. makes me quite bullish on openai tbh. | Continue reading
and everyone wants to kill the web. fwiw, this is the same impetus that facebook also had when they introduced their own browser – yeah you can follow a link _outside_, but you still have to stay within the app. engagement “maxxing” only ends one way because it starts from a zero … | Continue reading
I love visual capitalist. Surprising data: Japan as #4 and Liberia (what?). Most of the rest of the composition makes sense to me. | Continue reading
I was today years old when I realized I didn’t know how an anchor actually works. | Continue reading
If your Tahoe mac is causing a system wide lag, there’s a known issue with Electron and Mac OS Tahoe. By now a lot of the usual suspects have issued a fix – https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ However, a big hold up still seems to be Cursor. Here’s a script you can run to det … | Continue reading
I’ve always had a soft spot for capturing ‘the moment.’ This year’s “pure street photography awards” are just delightful. Take a look at their finalists page if you find joy in these kinda photos too. | Continue reading
I don’t know. I am both a user of passkeys and generally wary of making myself overly dependent on tech giants and complex solutions. I’m noticing an increased reliance and potential loss of access to my own data. This does abstractly concern me. Not to the degree that it changes … | Continue reading
There’s something kind of cruel about the way wisdom works. It refuses to arrive during the easy seasons, when we have space to receive it gracefully. Instead, it waits. It lurks in the margins of our carefully constructed lives, patient as winter, until the moment when everythin … | Continue reading
Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloqu … | Continue reading
whoever said “puns are a lower form of wit” has not spent enough time appreciating the fluidity of language | Continue reading
The front wing is a new package, described by the team as featuring “locally increased cambers to extract more load”. It’s difficult to pick up those subtle profile changes, but what is very clear is that Red Bull has moved the two slot gap separators that I have highlighted with … | Continue reading
I understand the impulse. Exercise sucks. Who doesn’t want a pat on the head for doing the Hard Thing? Trust me. I’ve turned heads in public for letting out a string of expletives whenever a smartwatch fails to correctly log a five-mile test run. Are you kidding me, I have to do … | Continue reading
audacity is an incredible case of thoughtful, considered redesign and modernization. this (long) video also gives a wonderful view into the really hard problems around massive scale product development. honestly, it was delightful! | Continue reading
The new approach to window management looks excellent. The (predicted) ability to be able to record podcast interviews on it looks like it could really free me up to record from remote locations. iPadOS excitement – MacPsych dot blog Look, that windows can exist without getting k … | Continue reading
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche There are so many things that I wish I’d learned sooner in my life. During the quarter life crises – the stage where you move from the gumption of teenage to the first hit of life as an adult – […] | Continue reading
“Stress is doing something you don’t care about, with time that you do.” – Anon | Continue reading