Nathan Peck
@nathanpeck.com
Technologist in Software, AI, and Infrastructure Orchestration
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Nathan Peck
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· Aug 25
It won't happen to me, and other lies we tell ourselves
“Ten decisions shape your life, you’ll be aware of five, about.”
It’s a lyric from The Strokes. It’s also a surprisingly deep description of the relationship between choice, circumstance, and luck.
nathanpeck.com
I spent some time writing another essay in my ongoing series about humanity, consciousness, and AI.
I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...
I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...
Lmfao… FT must be trying to compete with The Onion now
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Lmfao… FT must be trying to compete with The Onion now
It’s time to talk about something personal:
The moment I knew it was time to take a break from big tech was the week I had to do my yearly Amazon assigned anti-bribery and anti-corruption training, while that very same day Amazon decided to make a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund.
The moment I knew it was time to take a break from big tech was the week I had to do my yearly Amazon assigned anti-bribery and anti-corruption training, while that very same day Amazon decided to make a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund.
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It’s time to talk about something personal:
The moment I knew it was time to take a break from big tech was the week I had to do my yearly Amazon assigned anti-bribery and anti-corruption training, while that very same day Amazon decided to make a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund.
The moment I knew it was time to take a break from big tech was the week I had to do my yearly Amazon assigned anti-bribery and anti-corruption training, while that very same day Amazon decided to make a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Congratulations to NYC, and Zohran Mamdani, the next mayor of NYC.
I'm happy with the results. Billionaire money, and disgustingly racist AI created attack ads have lost today, as they should.
Now let's see if NYC can implement basic quality of life policies that other countries already have.
I'm happy with the results. Billionaire money, and disgustingly racist AI created attack ads have lost today, as they should.
Now let's see if NYC can implement basic quality of life policies that other countries already have.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Congratulations to NYC, and Zohran Mamdani, the next mayor of NYC.
I'm happy with the results. Billionaire money, and disgustingly racist AI created attack ads have lost today, as they should.
Now let's see if NYC can implement basic quality of life policies that other countries already have.
I'm happy with the results. Billionaire money, and disgustingly racist AI created attack ads have lost today, as they should.
Now let's see if NYC can implement basic quality of life policies that other countries already have.
I'm thinking about this image. Each generation reduced the distance their kids could roam, despite experiencing broader freedom themselves (or perhaps because of it).
Did the parents remember close calls or scary circumstances that they wanted to protect their kids from?
Did the parents remember close calls or scary circumstances that they wanted to protect their kids from?
October 29, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm thinking about this image. Each generation reduced the distance their kids could roam, despite experiencing broader freedom themselves (or perhaps because of it).
Did the parents remember close calls or scary circumstances that they wanted to protect their kids from?
Did the parents remember close calls or scary circumstances that they wanted to protect their kids from?
"It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population)." (www.nimh.nih.gov/health/stati...)
The mental health epidemic in the US started long before ChatGPT. Glad to see OpenAI trying hard to not make it worse.
The mental health epidemic in the US started long before ChatGPT. Glad to see OpenAI trying hard to not make it worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"It is estimated that more than one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (59.3 million in 2022; 23.1% of the U.S. adult population)." (www.nimh.nih.gov/health/stati...)
The mental health epidemic in the US started long before ChatGPT. Glad to see OpenAI trying hard to not make it worse.
The mental health epidemic in the US started long before ChatGPT. Glad to see OpenAI trying hard to not make it worse.
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The smarter you are, the longer you can postpone being wrong.
Every hour of research delays the moment you have to face the fact that the map and the territory will never match.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-map-i...
Every hour of research delays the moment you have to face the fact that the map and the territory will never match.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-map-i...
The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)
How Smart People Stay Stuck
www.joanwestenberg.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The smarter you are, the longer you can postpone being wrong.
Every hour of research delays the moment you have to face the fact that the map and the territory will never match.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-map-i...
Every hour of research delays the moment you have to face the fact that the map and the territory will never match.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-map-i...
Reposted by Nathan Peck
Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.
He is destroying decades of political messaging.
He is destroying decades of political messaging.
October 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.
He is destroying decades of political messaging.
He is destroying decades of political messaging.
When I moved from America to New Zealand the traffic lights bothered me. They were low and positioned at the corners of the intersection.
US traffic lights seemed better: suspended overhead, centered above the lanes.
It wasn't until 6 months later that I realized how stupidly America-brained I was
US traffic lights seemed better: suspended overhead, centered above the lanes.
It wasn't until 6 months later that I realized how stupidly America-brained I was
October 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
When I moved from America to New Zealand the traffic lights bothered me. They were low and positioned at the corners of the intersection.
US traffic lights seemed better: suspended overhead, centered above the lanes.
It wasn't until 6 months later that I realized how stupidly America-brained I was
US traffic lights seemed better: suspended overhead, centered above the lanes.
It wasn't until 6 months later that I realized how stupidly America-brained I was
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Watching mainstream news sites try to come up with euphemisms for the video where Trump dumped "a brown liquid or sludge" on protestors is a great example of the sane-washing that the media has done for his administration since the the first time around.
News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
www.404media.co
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Watching mainstream news sites try to come up with euphemisms for the video where Trump dumped "a brown liquid or sludge" on protestors is a great example of the sane-washing that the media has done for his administration since the the first time around.
Shameful. United States becomes more a criminal enterprise every day: run by criminals, on behalf of criminals. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
'Naked Corruption': Trump Commutes Fraud Sentence of Ex-GOP Congressman George Santos | Common Dreams
"Trump says it plainly: Crimes don’t count if you 'vote Republican,'" said one Democratic congressman. "Just like his pardons of those who violently attacked police."
www.commondreams.org
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Shameful. United States becomes more a criminal enterprise every day: run by criminals, on behalf of criminals. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...
Let me guess, the Trump admin’s new executive memo about “hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion” is probably not going to consider separation of church and state to be a traditional American view on religion?
September 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Let me guess, the Trump admin’s new executive memo about “hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion” is probably not going to consider separation of church and state to be a traditional American view on religion?
In addition to being psychopathic, this video demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of Pokemon: www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...
Pokemon is fundamentally about friendship, exploration, discovery, training, growth, and interdependence.
All values that the "shining city on the hill" used to share.
Pokemon is fundamentally about friendship, exploration, discovery, training, growth, and interdependence.
All values that the "shining city on the hill" used to share.
From the CringeTikToks community on Reddit: Crazy post by the official White House TikTok account.
Explore this post and more from the CringeTikToks community
www.reddit.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
In addition to being psychopathic, this video demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of Pokemon: www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...
Pokemon is fundamentally about friendship, exploration, discovery, training, growth, and interdependence.
All values that the "shining city on the hill" used to share.
Pokemon is fundamentally about friendship, exploration, discovery, training, growth, and interdependence.
All values that the "shining city on the hill" used to share.
When RFK Jr was a child, Tylenol wasn't common yet. So what did they use for kids in pain?
- Aspirin: Reye’s syndrome, gastrointestinal irritation and bleeding
- Codeine and other opioids: overdose and dependence (hello RFK's heroin addiction?)
- Phenacetin: linked to kidney damage and cancer
- Aspirin: Reye’s syndrome, gastrointestinal irritation and bleeding
- Codeine and other opioids: overdose and dependence (hello RFK's heroin addiction?)
- Phenacetin: linked to kidney damage and cancer
September 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
When RFK Jr was a child, Tylenol wasn't common yet. So what did they use for kids in pain?
- Aspirin: Reye’s syndrome, gastrointestinal irritation and bleeding
- Codeine and other opioids: overdose and dependence (hello RFK's heroin addiction?)
- Phenacetin: linked to kidney damage and cancer
- Aspirin: Reye’s syndrome, gastrointestinal irritation and bleeding
- Codeine and other opioids: overdose and dependence (hello RFK's heroin addiction?)
- Phenacetin: linked to kidney damage and cancer
After the AI bubble pops there will be a lot of sweet deals on H100’s from companies selling off all the assets in bankruptcy.
I sure hope some of that hardware reaches the general public instead of just going to the top few surviving mega corps…. But that might just be hopium.
I sure hope some of that hardware reaches the general public instead of just going to the top few surviving mega corps…. But that might just be hopium.
September 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
After the AI bubble pops there will be a lot of sweet deals on H100’s from companies selling off all the assets in bankruptcy.
I sure hope some of that hardware reaches the general public instead of just going to the top few surviving mega corps…. But that might just be hopium.
I sure hope some of that hardware reaches the general public instead of just going to the top few surviving mega corps…. But that might just be hopium.
Important: US media is biased, and forced to fall in line with American propaganda. However, the South Korean workers detained at the Hyundai factory are telling their stories now, to the Korean media, giving us a small glimpse into the horrifying behavior of ICE and their treatment of people:
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Important: US media is biased, and forced to fall in line with American propaganda. However, the South Korean workers detained at the Hyundai factory are telling their stories now, to the Korean media, giving us a small glimpse into the horrifying behavior of ICE and their treatment of people:
I don't think there is enough discourse about the fact that there is plenty of room there to draw larger, average adult sized breasts
Trump had to go out of his way and and keep the line high in the available whitespace to make the figure look as flat-chested and young as possible
Absolutely sick
Trump had to go out of his way and and keep the line high in the available whitespace to make the figure look as flat-chested and young as possible
Absolutely sick
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I don't think there is enough discourse about the fact that there is plenty of room there to draw larger, average adult sized breasts
Trump had to go out of his way and and keep the line high in the available whitespace to make the figure look as flat-chested and young as possible
Absolutely sick
Trump had to go out of his way and and keep the line high in the available whitespace to make the figure look as flat-chested and young as possible
Absolutely sick
There’s nothing that says “masculine” like being scared of what people will think if you add milk to your coffee: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal
Americans are fretting over a type of man who drinks matcha and expresses alternative masculinity – but the ‘latte liberal’ stereotype has existed for decades
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
There’s nothing that says “masculine” like being scared of what people will think if you add milk to your coffee: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Looks like one of these AWS regions is not like the other...
@darko.rup12.net @alispit.tel @rjourdan.com
@darko.rup12.net @alispit.tel @rjourdan.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Looks like one of these AWS regions is not like the other...
@darko.rup12.net @alispit.tel @rjourdan.com
@darko.rup12.net @alispit.tel @rjourdan.com
People are acting like this is something cool and cryptic. Let's be honest, its exactly what you'd expect a rapist to be posting
August 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
People are acting like this is something cool and cryptic. Let's be honest, its exactly what you'd expect a rapist to be posting
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." - Trump
You have the right to try whatever you want. Others have the right to stop you. There are a couple amendments that cover this exact scenario. No kings allowed in America.
You have the right to try whatever you want. Others have the right to stop you. There are a couple amendments that cover this exact scenario. No kings allowed in America.
August 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." - Trump
You have the right to try whatever you want. Others have the right to stop you. There are a couple amendments that cover this exact scenario. No kings allowed in America.
You have the right to try whatever you want. Others have the right to stop you. There are a couple amendments that cover this exact scenario. No kings allowed in America.
I spent some time writing another essay in my ongoing series about humanity, consciousness, and AI.
I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...
I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...
It won't happen to me, and other lies we tell ourselves
“Ten decisions shape your life, you’ll be aware of five, about.”
It’s a lyric from The Strokes. It’s also a surprisingly deep description of the relationship between choice, circumstance, and luck.
nathanpeck.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I spent some time writing another essay in my ongoing series about humanity, consciousness, and AI.
I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...
I explore some of my recent thoughts about collapse and the future. I'm also experimenting with a new format designed to "prove" the human provenance of writing: nathanpeck.com/it-wont-happ...
Meanwhile Cuomo probably couldn’t get crosstown without his private driver lmao
Zohran leads a RIDICULOUS pace for the Bus vs Pedestrian race on 34th St. God I love this town.
August 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Meanwhile Cuomo probably couldn’t get crosstown without his private driver lmao
I wrote a long form piece about AI engineering best practices: not just the technical side of using AI to write code, but also the personal side.
Perhaps the personal side is more important. Your mindset, and the best practices to keep your own sanity are key: nathanpeck.com/ive-been-cod...
Perhaps the personal side is more important. Your mindset, and the best practices to keep your own sanity are key: nathanpeck.com/ive-been-cod...
I've been coding with AI for two years. Here is what I've learned
Over the past two years I’ve begun writing more and more code with the assistance of AI. I started out, like many people, by using the early versions of ChatGPT to generate little snippets of code.
nathanpeck.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I wrote a long form piece about AI engineering best practices: not just the technical side of using AI to write code, but also the personal side.
Perhaps the personal side is more important. Your mindset, and the best practices to keep your own sanity are key: nathanpeck.com/ive-been-cod...
Perhaps the personal side is more important. Your mindset, and the best practices to keep your own sanity are key: nathanpeck.com/ive-been-cod...
Jeeze, is there anyone competent left in the Democratic Party? Such an easy message, and they still manage to use the dumbest possible chart that makes it look like Republicans are lowering taxes for most and raising taxes on the .1%
June 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Jeeze, is there anyone competent left in the Democratic Party? Such an easy message, and they still manage to use the dumbest possible chart that makes it look like Republicans are lowering taxes for most and raising taxes on the .1%
Happy Matariki to everyone here in New Zealand!
And happy Juneteenth to USA based folks!
And happy Juneteenth to USA based folks!
June 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Happy Matariki to everyone here in New Zealand!
And happy Juneteenth to USA based folks!
And happy Juneteenth to USA based folks!