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Tech addict. Doting aunt. Alto. Kdrama viewer. Sporadic blogger. Perennial dieter. Part-time writer and editor. Consultant. https://mdynotes.com
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mdy.bsky.social
So spot on: "Good Prompting is Good Delegation"
www.trustinsights.ai/blog/2025/11...
INBOX INSIGHTS, November 12, 2025: Good Prompting is Delegation, Trust Insights Workshop Review - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting
INBOX INSIGHTS, November 12, 2025: Good Prompting is Delegation, Trust Insights Workshop Review artificial intelligence Trust Insights Marketing Analytics
www.trustinsights.ai
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Reason no. 183 why it's fun to hang out with editors: we come across the most interesting things.

Today's example (hat-tip @bookrealmrevisions.bsky.social): swordis.com/types-of-swo...
702 Sword Types from Around the World (With Pictures)
Discover all the different types of swords from all over the world. Find out where and when they came from, how they're used, and what makes them unique.
swordis.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
mdy.bsky.social
This weekend's new #firstworldproblem: the "Approaching weekly limit" warning in Claude Code 😅
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
mdy.bsky.social
First time I've gotten three cookies in one day.

Pips #74
Easy 🟢 0:11 🍪
Medium 🟡 0:34 🍪
Hard 🔴 0:55 🍪
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
mdy.bsky.social
So happy to see that subscribers now have access to ad-free versions of @theverge.com podcasts via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube Music.

To connect your podcast app to these private feeds, go to www.theverge.com/account/podc... while logged into your subscriber account, then follow the links.
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
mdy.bsky.social
Saw @leaflet.pub for the first time today. Figured I'd give it a whirl by logging the various links I liked enough to share with other people this week.

mdylinks.leaflet.pub/3m2b4nsdpqs2a
2025 Week 40 - mdylinks
Links I liked enough to share with other people this week.
mdylinks.leaflet.pub
October 3, 2025 at 5:08 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Whoa that 63% of PH respondents say they are watching for or actively seeking new employment.

Source: Gallup's "State of the Global Workplace 2025" Report. www.gallup.com/workplace/34...
A table titled "Intent to Leave" shows survey results on job-seeking activity in Southeast Asian countries. The columns are Rank, Country, Change, and "% Watching for or actively seeking new job." Rank 1: Philippines, Change –2, 63%. Rank 2: Myanmar, Change +1, 59%. Rank 3: Laos, Change –2, 56% Rank 4: Indonesia, Change –1, 52%. Rank 5: Thailand, Change –1, 44%. The Philippines has the highest percentage of workers watching for or actively seeking a new job (63%), while Thailand has the lowest among the listed countries (44%).
September 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Shared this passage with a friend today. Have lost track of the times I've referred to @lethain.com's books and blogposts because there are so many gems in there.
mdy.bsky.social mdy @mdy.bsky.social · Mar 26
Have read this passage many times over the years, but it still makes me stop and think every time I come across it.
When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I start thinking about process design. A problem I want to solve permanently and we have time to go slow? That's a good time to evolve your culture. However, if process is too weak a force, and culture too slow, then organizational design lives between those two. - From "An Elegant Puzzle" by Will Larson
September 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
mdy.bsky.social
This week's random thought:
Watching experts in their respective fields react to music videos is like Murderbot's ART preferring to watch media with others, so it can "process the media more easily through your filter."
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
mdy.bsky.social
🤯🤯🤯
luok.ai luokai @luok.ai · Sep 1
Dual-System Avatars:

Inspired by cognitive theory, OmniHuman-1.5 blends fast, intuitive reactions with slow, deliberate planning. This means avatars don’t just move—they act and react in sync with speech rhythm, prosody, and meaning.
September 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
mdy.bsky.social
Today's fun bit of AI trivia: I asked ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to create a transcript for a mock informational interview between two people.

**ALL THREE** AI services named one of the interview participants "Jordan" and gave the same rationale when asked why.
Claude: Jordan - I chose this gender-neutral name deliberately since I didn't want to make assumptions about gender in senior T&S roles. The gender neutrality also allowed the conversation to flow without gender-based assumptions affecting the dynamic. My approach was to: 1. Use names that sound contemporary and professional 2. Reflect the diversity commonly found in tech T&S teams 3. Avoid names that might carry strong cultural associations that could distract from the content 4. Choose names that would feel believable for professionals in these roles ChatGPT: I chose “Alex” and “Jordan” because they are short, easy-to-pronounce, gender-neutral names that keep the focus on the substance of the conversation rather than the identities of the participants. They also work well in a professional setting and can represent people from a wide range of cultural or geographic backgrounds, making the mock interview feel broadly relatable. Gemini: I chose the names "Ariel" and "Jordan" for the mock interview participants. I selected these names to be gender-neutral and professional, reflecting a common practice in many modern workplaces. This choice allows the conversation to focus on the professional roles and career experiences rather than on the gender of the individuals involved.
August 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
mdy.bsky.social
I really can't tell if this is real or a parody . . .
luok.ai luokai @luok.ai · Jul 29
🦾 Meet Lume: The Robotic Lamp That Folds Laundry!

Imagine a robot that fits right into your home—no uncanny humanoids, just a smart, helpful lamp. Lume is designed to handle chores starting with the dreaded laundry folding. It’s privacy-friendly, safe, and ready to make your life easier.
July 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Yes to this "Orchestration vs. Leadership" framing from @lethain.com's recent blog post. lethain.com/orchestratio...

Reminds me of Project Managers who focus only on tracking and reporting on the status (orchestrating) and not on addressing risks, resolving issues, & unblocking tasks (leading).
Here are a few ways you can identify an orchestration‑heavy manager that doesn’t quite understand their current, leadership‑heavy circumstances: * Focuses on prioritization as “solution of first resort.” When you’re not allowed to change the problem or the approach, prioritization becomes one of the best tools you have. * Accepts problems and solutions as presented. If a stakeholder asks for something, questions are around priority rather than whether the project makes sense to do at all, or suggestions of alternative approaches. There’s no habit of questioning whether the request makes sense—that’s left to the stakeholder or to more senior functional leadership. * Focuses on sprint planning and process. With the problem and approach fixed, protecting your team from interruption and disruption is one of your most valuable tools. Operating strictly to a sprint cadence (changing plans only at the start of each sprint) is a powerful technique. All of these things are still valuable in a leadership‑heavy role, but they just aren’t necessarily the most valuable things you could be doing.
July 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
mdy.bsky.social
✅ Pre-ordered
ifanyonebuildsit.com
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction — but it's not too late to change course, as two of the field's earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity...
ifanyonebuildsit.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
mdy.bsky.social
Just reached the end of Season 2 of The Diplomat and I did not see that plot twist coming! Relieved to learn there's a Season 3.
June 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
mdy.bsky.social
Today's random lament: I keep typing "jurisfiction" and having to stare at it a few seconds before I spot the typo.
June 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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grammargirl.bsky.social
Did you know the way people talk about graduating has changed in the last decade or so? Or that no stylebook says you can't use "over" to mean "more than" anymore?

Last week, I got to talk with Reader's Digest about recent changes to the English language, and some of them may surprise you!
12 Grammar Rules That Have Changed in the Last Decade
Go ahead and split that infinitive! Writing is getting easier, thanks to these grammar rules that have changed with the times.
www.rd.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
mdy.bsky.social
So many gems in this episode of Lenny's Podcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-83...

An example of the things that I found myself nodding along to (with timestamps).

1) People hire you because of the values of the organization you left, but not the behaviors. [8m 10s]
The thing I took away from Apple, and I think this is true for anybody changing from one major culture to another, is most likely the new place hired you because of the values of the organization you left, but not the behaviors. So, I think it's important to recalibrate and say, "Well, I want to hold on to these values." At Apple, attention to detail, product excellence, doing everything you can for the customer and the user. Try to hold on to those values, but then think, "Okay, how are those values best expressed in this culture?" I think that's useful for anybody leaving one very specific culture and going someplace else is to try to hold on to the values, but not the behaviors. - Bob Baxley
June 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Binge-listened to The Murderbot Diaries and went searching for more info. Found two free short pieces set in that world.

Compulsory (set before All Systems Red)
www.wired.com/story/future...

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (set after Exit Strategy)
reactormag.com/home-habitat...
The Future of Work: Compulsory, by Martha Wells
“My risk-assessment module predicts a 53 percent chance of a human-on-human massacre before the end of the contract.”
www.wired.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Probably the Pragmatic Engineer episode that I've shared the most in a long while.

Lost track of the number of times I thought, "Strong hire."
gergely.pragmaticengineer.com Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · May 28
What does it take to land a job as an AI Engineer—and thrive in the role?

Janvi Kalra works at OpenAI in this role: and she transitioned from software engineer to AI Engineer at her previous company, Coda. Before joining OpenAI, she interviewed with 46 different AI startups (!!)
June 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
mdy.bsky.social
Today's project: rescuing the almost two dozen aloe vera pups that have been struggling in an overcrowded pot and moving them to seedling pots.
Top-down view of 20+ small aloe vera plants arranged in four small pots resting on a wooden surface. Each plastic pot is set inside a colored saucer—two red and two teal. The aloe vera leaves are long, thin, and slightly curved, with some showing signs of browning or dryness at the tips.
May 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
mdy.bsky.social
Lol, you know you're getting old when your godchildren are grown up enough to have ewallets and it's easier to send their birthday money that way.
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
mdy.bsky.social
So glad I made a note of this five months ago because I ran into this issue again today.
mdy.bsky.social mdy @mdy.bsky.social · Dec 16
TIL how to find the app that stops my Macbook from sleeping:
- open Activity Monitor
- click the Energy tab
- check the "Preventing Sleep" column for "Yes"

Today's culprit:
The Firefox browser tab I had logged into Discord.

The solution:
Change permissions for that tab to "Block Audio and Video."
A sceenshot of a Firefox browser permissions window with the following settings: - Autoplay: Block Audio and Video - Open pop-up windows: Allow - Send notifications: Allowed
May 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
mdy.bsky.social
Current status: jumping down this rabbit hole.
A web browser window showing the localhost address localhost:11434 with the message "Ollama is running" displayed in monospace font on a white background.
May 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
mdy.bsky.social
So much to learn, so little time. 🤯

I wish I could upload a book into my mind with one click . . . Preferably without having to first be a robot or live in the Matrix.
May 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM