James Fairbairn
@jfairbairn.bsky.social
Fledgling corporate shaman. Pay attention, help others, let go. Product ∪ strategy; seeking ways to heal people, society and our biosphere. 🇭🇰🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. We/us.
You can follow my Mastodon posts at @james.exitmusic.world
You can follow my Mastodon posts at @james.exitmusic.world
Wait, how do they know what % of their daily code is LLM-generated?
September 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Wait, how do they know what % of their daily code is LLM-generated?
In the meantime (or to see me wrestle with some of the foundational ideas in public)…
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I’ve started using this place to sketch out my random thoughts - to think in public, but with as small an audience as possible to minimize my self-consciousness. Don’t subscribe unless my public messy thinking is what you want! exitmusic.world/life-is-supp...
Life is supposed to be pleasurable
Adrian Bejan’s Constructal Law is something I keep thinking about. It states: For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to liv...
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July 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In the meantime (or to see me wrestle with some of the foundational ideas in public)…
bsky.app/profile/jfai...
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Paused, frankly! Mid selling house/relocating, with a 3 week trip back to the UK in the process :)
Will get back to it though. Can’t keep a good idea down, etc
Will get back to it though. Can’t keep a good idea down, etc
July 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Paused, frankly! Mid selling house/relocating, with a 3 week trip back to the UK in the process :)
Will get back to it though. Can’t keep a good idea down, etc
Will get back to it though. Can’t keep a good idea down, etc
(So in this example that’s 2% extra on $100k)
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
(So in this example that’s 2% extra on $100k)
It’s a progressive tax, so it’s 2 percentage points extra on every dollar of income above the $1m mark.
June 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s a progressive tax, so it’s 2 percentage points extra on every dollar of income above the $1m mark.
(If you patiently compost computers, you don’t get new computers)
June 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
(If you patiently compost computers, you don’t get new computers)
Love this! You’re reminding me that devices that don’t seek to disappear (like phones do) support deliberate practice rather than passive, reactive, subconscious practice. “Convivial tools” framing strikes again!
May 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Love this! You’re reminding me that devices that don’t seek to disappear (like phones do) support deliberate practice rather than passive, reactive, subconscious practice. “Convivial tools” framing strikes again!
(Obviously I’m not a farmer or a grocer and the problems are real and hard to solve, but curious what it would take for a given locality to make progress here)
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
(Obviously I’m not a farmer or a grocer and the problems are real and hard to solve, but curious what it would take for a given locality to make progress here)
Like, if your goal is to get time-rich, mobile consumers in touch with farmers to make them feel good, then fine, farmers markets do the job. But if the goal is to relocalize food networks, increase farmers’ margins and make consumers healthier… there must be a better way
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Like, if your goal is to get time-rich, mobile consumers in touch with farmers to make them feel good, then fine, farmers markets do the job. But if the goal is to relocalize food networks, increase farmers’ margins and make consumers healthier… there must be a better way
It does occur to me, why are farmers’ markets generally held once a week for a few hours, and why is the produce:people selling ratio so low? Surely a local farm shops/local logistics network type system would be a lot more efficient?
May 22, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It does occur to me, why are farmers’ markets generally held once a week for a few hours, and why is the produce:people selling ratio so low? Surely a local farm shops/local logistics network type system would be a lot more efficient?
If you don’t, you’re stripping the economic from the social, which is exactly what is convenient for profit-seeking companies.
May 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
If you don’t, you’re stripping the economic from the social, which is exactly what is convenient for profit-seeking companies.