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Storyteller.
Bostonian in CA.
Inevitable.
He served me and my business partner a piece of sheet cake from Von’s and nothing has ever been the same since that day.
October 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I read the following about the latest kerfuffle at Cursor and couldn’t help but be struck by how extensible this is to the current Administration:

Confabulations are a type of "creative gap-filling" response where AI models invent plausible-sounding but false information

apple.news/AtMbyatVQSlO...
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar — Ars Technica
Frustrated software developer believed AI-generated message came from human support rep.
apple.news
April 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Superagency, by Reid and Greg, and not me, marketed perfectly.
March 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
www.theverge.com/features/611...
After decades living in Mountain View and watching co-workers get sick too young, its clear this is still soiled Earth.
The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to manufacture chips again — but there’s a dark, overlooked history.
www.theverge.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I am grateful I grew up on H.R. Pufnstuf — as all this feels right.
February 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Loved this. Despite the morass of our moment, miracles are everywhere. www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life
www.thenewatlantis.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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S2 Ep24 @mackmckelvey.bsky.social talks w/Gina Bianchini, founder/CEO, @Mighty Networks. Gina shares her distinctive approach to decision-making, underscoring the importance of self-care, taking bets, and building a culture where it's safe to fail.

thecredentialed.com/people-magic...
People Magic, Placing Bets & Perfecting the OODA Loop - The Credentialed
In this episode of The Cred Podcast, host Mack McKelvey sits down with Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mighty Networks. With an impressive background in the tech world, Gina shares her distinctive ...
thecredentialed.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Silicon Valley library has yet to post a book on DeepSeek.
January 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Yarvinization 1.0
January 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Started reading Genesis this week. (Kissinger/Mundie/Schmidt not R. Crumb)

Its clear early in to be an apocalyptic framework for a cockeyed optmist like myself.

However I liken it to a Prenuvo scan for our time.

Curious as to your opinions.
December 1, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Rome is burning.

But sleep easier knowing there are no straws on superyachts.
November 14, 2024 at 9:48 AM
It rained today.
Had a quiet moment at Bloom’s. Thought of Tom Hargadon
and Tony Rutkowski and Marty Perlmutter.

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM