You need to learn all the long form calculations:

80s - you won’t always have your slide rule on you!
90s - You won’t always have your calculator!
00s - You won’t always have your graphing calculator!
10s - You won’t always have your iPhone!
early 20s - You won’t always have your LLMs!
late 20s - Nm, if you don’t use AI, you’re fired

It’s late night, you hear your partner whispering into their phone. You catch them sending messages and hiding the screen. Eventually, you discover the worst: they’ve been talking to the clanker and “coding” this whole time…

I get a chuckle how webpage design has looped back around to the answer being “static HTML”. Won’t last forever, but I enjoy it for now.

After a few weeks of doing demos, I think it’s always good to remind myself: no one cares as much about a demo as the person making it. No one cares how long it took to mak. Everything is about how it’s being perceived in the moment.

The best part about travel in the age of working on the Internet is 3Dimensionalizing faces on the screen.

There is seemingly no digital equivalent of a fancy fountain pen that people used to ceremonially sign contracts/agreements. Maybe I need to get a gold plated enter key cap?

True wealth comes not from income or holdings, but from the variety of coffee one can buy from Costco

All throughout my time at my old job at a component data company and since then while looking at AI tools, I kept saying “all I want is a tool that will fill in resistors and component values for me”. Well, you had your shot startups, Claude does it now.

Buying a new computer or laptop in the age of countless YouTube reviews has all the fun of buyers remorse before you even hit the purchase key…

Old San Juan, as seen from a WW2 turret installed onto a fort/castle built in the 1600s