Simon Safar

On the Unhideable Excel Upsell Button 2026/09/20 So... not sure what got into me, but I decided I wanted Excel, of all things.

Making AI Part of Us 2026/08/02 Much has been talked about how to get the AIs to do what we actually want.

Claude and Taxes 2026/03/28 Last year, I filed my tax return in October.

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So I Wrote A Book 2025/12/22 Some readers might have noticed a... pause in blogpost activity.

Double Pretend It's Real 2025/09/18 Life is... mostly uninteresting.

Living More Like Humans 2025/09/11 (actually published 09/20, mostly written 08/21, 09/11 is when it was slightly fixed up) As mentioned before, we're living in an age of unprecedented prosperity.

Logarithmic Hedonism 2025/08/09 Going after nice things often has diminishing returns.

How to Build the Evil Superintelligence out of the Book 2025/07/05 It's 2025.

Spaces for Humans 2025/06/01 It was a hard life, a couple hundred years ago.

You Can Run a DNS Server 2025/05/03 In fact, it's not especially even hard to run a DNS server.