Sure, Jan

The story of 2025 continues to be — never concede anything. Just stare ahead as you plow into the merge and the other guy will yield. In that spirit, here’s Sam Altman, turning up the music and accelerating as he rapidly approaches the oncoming produce truck of reality. As if this wasn’t hand-wavy enough, keep […]

Incredulity

Every day, there are many things I don’t do because I think they are fundamentally wrong. Some of those things might get me something I want, or closer to something I want, or away from something I don’t want to do, but I find them wrong so I don’t do them. This does not make […]

Uneventful

For the last year, I’ve had to do a bunch of event logistics for work, and… I really did not enjoy doing this work. It’s not a huge deal or anything (I wasn’t exactly working in a bauxite mine), and it really was the most useful thing I could have been doing in my function, […]

Three Pointers & The Angry Mob

John Hollinger is the first big, respected basketball name I’ve seen take a counterpunch at the puzzling (and omnipresent) narrative that the NBA is in some kind of death spiral. Declining TV ratings. Endless fourth quarters thanks to timeouts, replays and clock stoppages. One-sided blowouts. A new December tournament format struggling to compete with the […]

Never Good Enough

For some reason, WordPress has decided to incinerate itself. It’s true, but not really true, because WordPress is a million different things. It’s an open source CMS. It’s a hosting provider of said CMS. It’s the flagship product, of sorts, of an extremely successful and (on the surface, at least?) cool looking tech company. It’s […]

The Last Mile

I make a lot of generative AI jokes, because they’re obvious, and because they’re hilarious. But, in all seriousness, there is a huge problem with the value proposition of almost every generative AI application that everyone is just whistling past for a variety of reasons. The Promise is the Problem Generative AI as a technology […]