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by aworks 5mo ago
I had a boss who took his notes on loose-leaf notebook paper and would weed the notebook frequently. He had been involved in litigation in the past.
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by aworks 5mo ago
I have 220k unread items in my feed reader.
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by aworks 5mo ago
I traveled to Wuhan twice a year for business for much of the last decade (until the pandemic). China was a growing country that clearly knew how to build infrastructure. In Wuhan, they built an entire development intended to employ 100,00
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by aworks 5mo ago
I forgot it was even a thing.
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by aworks 5mo ago
The price of oil going below zero during the pandemic was one of the most astounding economic events in my life. I wonder if anybody did try to instantly create some storage to take advantage of it.
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by aworks 5mo ago
The thriving counter-culture was a surprise when I visited several times last year.
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by aworks 5mo ago
I've visited various parts of Utah in the last year. It doesn't particularly reflect my life choices and I doubt I would ever move there. But their cultural values seem to have resulted in a prosperous state compared to most othe
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by aworks 5mo ago
Maybe not related but fascinating: "Annual spending on Delta-branded American Express cards comes out to about 1 percent of U.S. GDP. In 2025, this produced about $8 billion in revenue for Delta, accounting for more than the entirety o
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by aworks 5mo ago
This argues airlines are undifferentiated. In the aggregate, maybe that's true. Personally, I have a long list of airlines I try to avoid flying.
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by aworks 5mo ago
This is interesting to me. I never had any enjoyment from traditional gambling when I dabbled in it. But I like the idea of being an expert on a little-known company and experiencng the response of my actions. Of course, it would be "
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What Makes Art Great?(nabeelqu.substack.com)
3 points by aworks 5mo ago|2 comments
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by aworks 5mo ago
As an example, I find the AI-generated "slop images in Jakob Nielsen's UX blog quite annoying and distractng. https://www.uxtigers.com/post/ux-roundup-20260504 https://www.uxtigers.com/post&#x
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by aworks 5mo ago
In the 80s, I implemented the use of VAX Code Management System (CMS) on a large commericial avionics software project. Made me a little more confident when later flying a particular Boeing plane. I had been at Purdue when Walter Tichy buil
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by aworks 5mo ago
I've had the same experience on approach at night by the river near the Grand Rapids MI airport. And a thrilling non-landing at O' Hare where instead of touching down, we suddenly accelerated like crazy for a go-around in crowded
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by aworks 5mo ago
I worked for a company that focused on top-down software sales, albeit to Fortune 500 companies. Align with the highest person you can in the organization, sell them and then support the engineers with high-touch support after the product
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by aworks 5mo ago
I was a manager when we merged with our competitor. I was in a committee to decide what committees were needed for the new, joint company. I left shortly for a startup...
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In Defense of AI Slop(reidhoffman.substack.com)
3 points by aworks 5mo ago|1 comments
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Capitalism and Modernity(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by aworks 5mo ago|1 comments
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by aworks 5mo ago
"What strikes me is that most critics of “capitalism” (whatever “capitalism” might mean, and regardless of the value of those critiques) are really critics of modernity, understood as the organization of society around technology, form
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by aworks 5mo ago
Coincidentally, I read about Malcolm Cowley today in a bio of Jack Kerouac. I'm not yet to where On the Road finally gets published.
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by aworks 6mo ago
3B Facebook users! And for all the scorn it gets on HN, Facebook still works for some of my use cases: high school friends, low-contact relatives, obscure geography groups, the Philippines.
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Combatting the person who trademarked the name of silent actress Louise Brooks(louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com)
3 points by aworks 6mo ago|0 comments
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by aworks 6mo ago
I lived on a suburban street a mile from the Stanford campus that didn't get broadband until 2003. I would go to the local copy center to rent an hour of computer time to edit my blog.
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by aworks 6mo ago
That's one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. I love it.
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by aworks 6mo ago
I don't have any comment on the post but that chart is fascinating. Both because the US bar is comparatively way off to the right. But also what's up in say, Belgium re: AI? My old (US) company's AI expert was in Belgium for
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by aworks 6mo ago
My name is not particularly common although I was the first to claim firstname.lastname@gmail.com. I've been getting email intended for other people with the same name for decades. I've seen estimates that there are only 10,000 pe
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by aworks 6mo ago
I had a separate dental insurance policy but as you suggest, it didn't make much sense and I dropped it. So yes, dental/vision was a wash versus private medical insurance. There are some other therapies I no longer have any covera
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by aworks 6mo ago
I'm not following this advice for now but a recent post about not delaying https://nesteggcare.com/why-would-you-delay-the-start-of-soc...
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by aworks 6mo ago
For general medical coverage, it was better for my Mom and now it seems better for me. Some things are not covered with traditional Medicare e.g. dental and vision.
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by aworks 6mo ago
I worked for a company that also had hardware engineers writing RTL. Our software architect spent years helping that team reuse/automate/modularize their code. At a mininum, it's still just text files with syntax, despite rat

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