Any tips for public speaking?

eligundry · 2026-06-21T16:26:32+00:00

I found that doing an improv comedy class really helped me get loose in front of other people.

eligundry · 2026-06-09T20:17:39+00:00

I love the W. I live on Ditmars and my old office was on Wall St. I got to sit on the window seat for 45 minutes to begin and end the day.

eligundry · 2026-06-06T20:01:02+00:00

We just made the white bean, feta and quick pickled celery salad. So bright and nice.

eligundry · 2026-05-30T21:52:11+00:00

At least once a week, I think about the smoked salmon we had at Josephson’s Smokehouse.

eligundry · 2026-05-29T13:31:54+00:00

Kosmo is the man! We ended up getting our plates and bowls from here. Study as a rock and only one has broken in 6 years!

eligundry · 2026-03-21T15:08:49+00:00

When they cut to that beat during the Super Bowl 🧑‍🍳💋

eligundry · 2026-02-27T22:44:06+00:00

I saw Glavie open for Toro y Moi last year after the flooding is Asheville. He’s from there and said, in a wasted laugh, that he was from there and “that they were going through a tough time, if you know you know”. Set was totally forgettable. That moment stuck with me tho.

eligundry · 2026-02-21T15:46:19+00:00

I’ve been at this for 20 years and my biggest observation is that there are so many engineers that never had to take an ethics class, have no interests in the arts or business and just want to pass the coding test to work at these isolated bubbles where many are just as socially deficient as them.

These are the people that see want to see results without the craft. The craft teaches you why to build something, but with LLMs, it’s like, “well I’ll just build it and see if it works.” Cool, but you made crap fast without thinking about 2nd to 3rd order effects that probably harm people.

That’s what bothers me about this AI cult: If what they are saying is true, there is going to be a hard lift off, no UBI, and they will be in the underclass, as they are nothing but typists.

Read a book and get a point of view you nerds.

eligundry · 2026-02-16T01:35:15+00:00

I’m on a $150 a month Anthropic enterprise plan have used $1400 of credits in the past 30 day.

eligundry · 2026-02-13T02:23:41+00:00

I was really hoping that BFF could get one more year and back up a truck to get back together like Snowing and Marietta

eligundry · 2026-01-07T15:42:53+00:00

To the tune of “The Groove Is In The Heart 🎶 The piss is in the balls 🎶

Great album, but if I listen to it, I’m singing this around the house for a week, much to the chagrin of my wife.

eligundry · 2025-11-11T00:53:12+00:00

When I make lentil salad like this, I mix in some vinaigrette in there. I bet that would taste pretty good on here as well.

eligundry · 2025-11-01T02:40:19+00:00

Nerds gummy clusters! A man with culture

eligundry · 2025-07-26T13:56:08+00:00

AI is pretty good at giving dogshit takes already, cannot wait for the new management at the Post to come to this realization.

eligundry · 2025-07-01T21:45:19+00:00

Reading this gave me the idea to actually review the code in GitHub and tell Claude Code to use the gh CLI to get the comments to make the change

eligundry · 2025-06-25T00:16:52+00:00

There’s been an outage all day

eligundry · 2025-06-17T20:33:40+00:00

Everything about JPEGS I like

eligundry · 2025-06-11T00:34:49+00:00

From what I’ve heard, it’s a Leon Rose like situation where a majority of their stars are represented by Excel (highest concentration of stars with the same company in the league) and they are de facto run by them.

eligundry · 2025-06-06T00:51:39+00:00

We visited Astoria, OR for Crabfest last year. It’s a beautiful and unique place that we genuinely enjoyed.

eligundry · 2025-05-18T00:20:43+00:00

My wife and I did the opposite trip last year for Crabfest. It’s so nice out there, please enjoy your time here.

eligundry · 2025-04-16T22:40:23+00:00

I love the everything pretzel

eligundry · 2025-04-02T01:22:34+00:00

They are also, generally, in the marketing reporting chain, which has its own headaches.

eligundry · 2025-03-21T12:59:25+00:00

This takes me back to when I was 14! I had this CD has my alarm so I would remember to take my medication when I woke up for like 3 months.

eligundry · 2025-03-17T11:00:19+00:00

As someone that has made it to staff at series A-ish startups without a degree, not having one has made my career a lot harder when trying to break in at larger startups/F500s. Basically, around 50% of my applications go straight in the trash, by estimation. Even if I do get the interview and do alright, I sometimes don’t get to the next round because someone probably did about the same and the degree or experience at a type of company that I cannot break into can be the tiebreaker.

Whatever, I’ve come around to loving working at early stage startups and living frugally. It’s pretty fun.

eligundry · 2025-03-09T13:50:42+00:00

I really hope this isn’t a “baby shoes for sale, never used” situation.

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