Nathan

xkcd: Types of Board Game It's a cross between Twilight Imperium and Cones of Dunshire, but implemented entirely in category theory.

Flighty Airports Meltdown Map <map of airports, delays, and why> Waymo saved my life...

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis For AI to produce a sustained negative demand shock, the economy must see a material acceleration in adoption, experience near-total labor substitution, no fiscal response, negligible investment absorption, and unconstr…

Google API Keys Weren't Secrets.

The board game table that Austin Waldo built for me: This table fits my game room exactly.

Engineers are running 8 instances of Claude Code at once.

There is way too much serendipity - by Malmesbury If you add the history of LSD to the history of artificial sweeteners, it follows that chemistry researchers are constantly tasting everything they touch, and I will believe that until someone gives me a b…

'The Orange' by Wendy Cope At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh.

I emailed 18 links posts this year, down from 30 last year.

Prompt Caching: 10x Cheaper LLM Tokens That's it, those K and V matrices above, they are the 1s and 0s that the providers save in their giant datacenters to offer us 10x cheaper tokens, and much faster responses.

Selections from the SEC charges against SolarWinds. this is it. this is fraud.

Telephones, transistors, RNA vaccines, calculus... some ideas are inevitable.

Complexity very, very bad.

I'm Nathan.

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