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

When you see a strip of thin green plastic on the grass, think “weed whacker cord” and not “a 3D printer is missing some PLA”. Perhaps a corollary to the medical idea of “zebras”.

Rereading what I just posted and realized how trite it sounds. Take it from the perspective of a stressed parent trying to figure out if a restaurant will work for taking kids somewhere…

Feels like one of the most immediate acts of service one can do is to take photos of the internals/seating layout of restaurants and post those to Google Maps.