Mon Jan 06
I have always had difficulty keeping the resolutions I’ve set for myself in the new year. Whether I get busy and forget about them, lose interest in them, or get discouraged and say screw it. This year, I am going to reword them to Goals. This way, it sounds not so hurtful if I don’t quite reach any of them. 😃 So,...
Uno dei problemi che ciclicamente tornano a galla sul Fediverso (e che Mastodon ad esempio sta provando a risolvere a modo suo) è la scoperta di nuovi account e l'allargare la propria "bolla" di lettura.Purtroppo non è facile trovare una soluzione semplice che continui per&
Remembering the times I saw Anthony Bourdain and the lessons he left. I’ll never forget the moment. I still walk past the jiujitsu gym, just a block over from our place and the moment comes rushing back. I was walking our dearly departed Boxer dog, Shaun. It was 2017. It was early. The Ralph Gracie Academy occupies...
I think almost any nerd remembers their first computer monitor. Mine was a tiny CRT one that could only display a few lines of amber text. It was hooked up to an Intel 8086 I think and even though it was very outdated at the time already, it was my very first personal computer. Fast forward to today, by now I've...
I’ve been pretty quiet on social media lately. After two decades of daily immersion in online spaces, gulping down other people’s opinions, hot takes, think-pieces, tweet threads and TikTok diatribes (and contributing plenty of my own perspectives) my voice has all but dried up. Oh sure, I’m still on the socials....
When we commit to something small and that tiny thing gets bigger, we need to stop and analyze what’s going on and whether we need to keep the same direction. Strong consistency drivers push us to follow the same promises and thoughts more and eventually be the victims of the sunk cost fallacy. This, in combination...
I convinced Claude that God exists, that Catholicism is the one True Church, and that the linchpin of the resurrection is that which all history hinges on. The full transcript is below, Claude’s responses are in Code blocks Initial Prompt: You are an assistant that engages in extremely thorough, self-questioning...
