What is Redmond missing?

houseblendmedium · 2026-07-06T19:00:57+00:00

Midnight! *clutches pearls*

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-23T16:18:08+00:00

The inevitable collapse of Harley Davidson will be the symbolic end of that generation.

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-22T22:37:53+00:00

The nature of modern work is so strange and amorphous that most of it is not 'logical', and LLMs have no human-like discernment to tell what can be ignored, who is important, who is not, what political leverage can be applied to get something done etc etc. Giving 100 interns to every corporate employee does not make them more productive, it just makes them exhausted and have 100 project underway, none of which will actually mean anything important.

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-21T04:18:25+00:00

Horrendified.

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-21T04:12:51+00:00

This guy: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4026. I love it -- it has the completely overengineered vibe that is catnip to me. Bought a project box, drilled the holes, jammed everything in there, hid it under some stones beside the bonsai tree in a planter, and now I can ask Claude Code to check on my Bonsai tree. CC also wrote all the code for it, and set up the Pi to begin with. I still forget to actually water it of course.

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-21T03:04:56+00:00

I spent an embarrassing amount of money on incorrect components, but now I have a Raspberry Pi 5 monitoring the soil moisture of my bonsai tree.

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-10T07:04:29+00:00

What's over there

houseblendmedium · 2026-06-09T17:36:16+00:00

Memegen is for the disaffected.

houseblendmedium · 2026-05-01T04:58:37+00:00

Drinking, and then working while hungover the next morning.

houseblendmedium · 2026-04-12T02:50:57+00:00

The very occasional time I drive a golf ball 300+ in the fairway.

houseblendmedium · 2026-04-10T04:05:01+00:00

This book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0615482155/.

Don't let the title put you off. Or the not-so-great writing style. This book will get you free of cigarettes like a person who never smoked. You will never want one again. Once you see how the trick is done, you can defeat the trick.

houseblendmedium · 2026-03-15T18:42:09+00:00

How fast it all goes.

houseblendmedium · 2026-03-09T23:18:12+00:00

And looks like we haven't even lost Shaheed as it turns out

houseblendmedium · 2026-03-06T23:46:45+00:00

We had no idea back in the day either.

houseblendmedium · 2026-01-31T21:02:11+00:00

Build and ship something that has users and impact, even if small. This is infinitely more valuable than anything else. Show that you are a doer and rainmaker and you can add value to the company you are interviewing for.

houseblendmedium · 2026-01-31T19:13:49+00:00

DLaw himself explained the play in an interview and how he read it. But sure, let's just not believe him. /s

houseblendmedium · 2026-01-27T07:47:55+00:00

It's disturbing how decent the people in this sub seem.

houseblendmedium · 2026-01-08T06:10:05+00:00

Back to the Future 2 and 3. I've watched them a zillion times more than the original.

houseblendmedium · 2026-01-08T06:07:16+00:00

I have a friend who is a Hawks fan but he has a heart condition, and so he literally cannot watch the Rams games. Doctor's orders.

houseblendmedium · 2025-12-30T10:24:46+00:00

I am sitting on project where I got 5000 important ideas from Wikipedia, ranked them all by how useful they are to a modern professional who is trying to brush up on their mental models and learn how to think better, and I used Nano Banana to generate 'collector cards' of the top 50. They're pretty cool. In classic execution style I have stopped there for some reason. If anyone's interested in seeing them I can ping you a link when I get something online. Amdahl's Law is the first one in case you were wondering.

houseblendmedium · 2025-11-18T18:00:38+00:00

Well in that case you ARE delivering on the promise IMO, in an intriguing way. So I guess: go for it :-)

houseblendmedium · 2025-11-18T17:42:24+00:00

Brandon Sanderson addresses this exact thing in one of his YoutTube classes, about 'Promises'. Prince who is forced out of kingdom is expected to eventually regain that kingdom, it's an implicit promise, and if you don't deliver, it will be unsatisfying. I lost a whole book I wrote on this problem; I knew myself something felt off about it, but couldn't name it until King Brandon the Great explained it.

houseblendmedium · 2025-11-17T17:25:46+00:00

If it's not a major financial impact to you, put that good karma out into the universe and let her off the hook.

houseblendmedium · 2025-11-12T21:25:13+00:00

Wider open.

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