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Colm Doyle
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Just a random person on the internet.
Fan of world class developer experiences and traveling.

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It’s the height of hubris to assume that your contribution is so valuable that you’re too good for the other levels of civic society and *have* to go right for the top job.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The Presidency is not a place to cut your teeth in politics. If you want to contribute to society, there’s lots of places you can start off. Run for council, work at a NGO, heck run for the Dáil if you want.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It’s reasonable to say that it’s perhaps too hard to get on the ballot for President in Ireland, but I think it’s also reasonable to say that constitutionally the highest office in the land, and maybe it should be hard to get on that ballot.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It also subtlety elevates these non-runner candidates to the same level as people with a reasonable chance of winning, which then means realistic candidates are forced by the media to engage with the talking points of these fringe candidates.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It’s giving airtime to people who are doing it solely to get airtime and I doubt ever actually believed they realistically were going to win the election.
September 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It’s hard to describe how much of a step up from my old approach of markdown files and google docs this is. It’s what I imagine having a chief of staff is like.

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June 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Finally, if someone asks me about a specific project or workstream, I have a chat interface where I can ask questions of my logs, and Clonra will answer me with links to the relevant log.
June 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Whenever I need a summary of the last week/month/quarter or whatever, I can run a summary action and it will produce one in a few seconds.
June 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Every day at 5pm, Clonra sends me a reminder to log. I spend 5 minutes writing down a summary of my day. Notable actions, things to follow up on, things I learned. Clonra then parses the log, and identifies concrete action items based on what I’ve written.
June 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m talking about pro/semi-pro photographers here. Obviously Facebook and Instagram ate their lunch for random party snaps long ago.
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
That roundabout doesn’t look all that complicated to me, unless I’m missing something massive…
May 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM