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Every time I have given up on America, it has been a mistake.

i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.

I turned 40 today.

I first started compiling "How To Thought Lead" in my notes 5 years ago, at first as an ironic parody and then slowly becoming sincere, and never published it, 1) because I don't…

There was a famous Covid era chart that I always struggle to find, showing how hard it is to estimate an S curve while living through it. in the early days it seems that…

You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking.

Through my 4 (!)

another talk I am giving at Mastra's TypeScript AI conf today https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NnQ3H5Bki3vWRRJdVXoCFJ5dsNKH9QrC-eEQ2Z8olck/edit?

For a while now there has been a persistent "gallows humor" meme about missing out on the generational wealth that will result in AI:

I gave a short address for the first AIE Paris conference organized by Koyeb!

My thesis for the future of software dev agents.

I set up a new Mac for work today.

theres a specific reason why i'm writing this post i can't disclose yet. but am sharing my prep work in public

at long last, Gemini Nano is almost here for all Chrome users (i was originally misinformed that it was in Chrome 138 - but i checked my own facts and since Chrome 137+ it is…

someone I resonate a lot with is Naval Ravikant - his classic "How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky" (henceforth HTGR) is formative to a lot of my thinking, including How to…

I made an expensive technical decision on Phoenix Liveview for the Smol Talk webapp about a year ago that I now regret, and am jotting down some notes to self for why.

I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could…

slug: supapechakucha

I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:

I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently.

I recently kicked off a 99designs contest for a new logo: https://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-brand-ai-engineering-podcast-help-define-industry-1307842/

I was very excited when I saw Cal Newport's episode on Structured Journaling come up, but I was disappointed by the recommendations:

I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently.

if you like me, and you're interested but never thought to ask, just ask!

i was involved in 3 end of year-ish recaps today:

The first time i saw Wicked was on broadway, around 2006-2007 when i first moved to the US

this is the tracking doc for my talk on "Engineering AI Agents" for OpenAI DevDay Singapore.

I set up a new Mac for work today.

2026 update: used Lugg to move a sectional sofabed couch and ended up regretting it - it cost $222.51 one way (44min labor pickup 55min labor dropoff, which i think was fraud, no…

this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI

4.5 years after my initial podcast inventory, with COVID and a career change under my belt, with my OPML file growing from 566 rss feeds in 2022 to 771 in 2024 (with quite a few…

note... this only represents my half of running AIE - the intention was to have Ben also write his side on the logistics and sponsorships but we never got round to it and its…

My first attempt at bringing back the short story in 30 years.

I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up!

A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form.

A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form.

There was a time, before the screens took over, when people read these things called "books".

The new iPhones ditched the physical mute button with a software enabled action button, that allows some customization. the highest degree of customization is Shortcuts.

If you fit one of these criteria:

As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 4 years straight (see main 2019 list, then my 2020 and 2021 and 2022 diffs), so it's…

I worked on a little hackathon project at AGI House with Sasha.

My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO Boulders in Brooklyn Bridge Park (now closed):

I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:…

I presented an updated version of this talk at CascadiaJS 2024!

A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.

Sarah asks a provoking question that has been on my mind a lot as I transition from part time creator to founder:

I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December.

My smol menubar project utilizes Electron's special webview tag to dynamically generate a list of sub browser windows for chat.

note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this…

as a cheapo who uses Apple iCloud (the world's worst sync service) as a sync service for my Obsidian Second Brain, I have recently run into this issue a lot: