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Discovered Avalanche by Leonard Cohen, what a great song, he was such a prolific and amazing composer hallelujah!!
November 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Discovered Avalanche by Leonard Cohen, what a great song, he was such a prolific and amazing composer hallelujah!!
Lately I was forced to use AI Assistants and Agents in apps like Gusto or Firstbase and have been severely disappointed, unfortunately, they create more work and lots of time spent on undoing the mess
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Lately I was forced to use AI Assistants and Agents in apps like Gusto or Firstbase and have been severely disappointed, unfortunately, they create more work and lots of time spent on undoing the mess
Here is my pet peeve, if you want to do something for someone offer it versus say let me know if you need anything because it’s clear you are hoping that they don’t call
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Here is my pet peeve, if you want to do something for someone offer it versus say let me know if you need anything because it’s clear you are hoping that they don’t call
Dhoom Machale what a great song to play today www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...
Dhoom Machale Song | DHOOM, Esha Deol, John Abraham, Abhishek, Uday, Sunidhi Chauhan, Pritam, Sameer
YouTube video by YRF
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November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Dhoom Machale what a great song to play today www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...
Have been using Gemini within Google Spreadsheets for formatting and it has saved me so much time
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Have been using Gemini within Google Spreadsheets for formatting and it has saved me so much time
I wanted to create a slide deck on best practices for usability testing so I took a blog that I wrote about 7 years back, asked ChatGPT to turn it into a talk track with 8-10 slides, fed it into Gamma and had a deck which was 80% complete in 5 mins
November 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I wanted to create a slide deck on best practices for usability testing so I took a blog that I wrote about 7 years back, asked ChatGPT to turn it into a talk track with 8-10 slides, fed it into Gamma and had a deck which was 80% complete in 5 mins
Great day for surfing in Manhattan Beach
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Great day for surfing in Manhattan Beach
Anyone who lays off people directly or indirectly in tech industry these days for "business reasons" in this tough job market is evil
October 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Anyone who lays off people directly or indirectly in tech industry these days for "business reasons" in this tough job market is evil
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Yes, thanks a lot, boomers
Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
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October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Yes, thanks a lot, boomers
This is infuriating 23andme charging me for subscription almost 6 months after I canceled and asked them to delete my data
October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is infuriating 23andme charging me for subscription almost 6 months after I canceled and asked them to delete my data
One of the cringiest things on LinkedIn right now:
people commenting under every AI clickbait post to get a prompt.
You’re not becoming an expert.
You’re just speedrunning the “how to look clueless” challenge. 😬
people commenting under every AI clickbait post to get a prompt.
You’re not becoming an expert.
You’re just speedrunning the “how to look clueless” challenge. 😬
October 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
One of the cringiest things on LinkedIn right now:
people commenting under every AI clickbait post to get a prompt.
You’re not becoming an expert.
You’re just speedrunning the “how to look clueless” challenge. 😬
people commenting under every AI clickbait post to get a prompt.
You’re not becoming an expert.
You’re just speedrunning the “how to look clueless” challenge. 😬
Fresh air hits different when it’s not laced with toxicity, great hike at Acadia National Park in Maine
September 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fresh air hits different when it’s not laced with toxicity, great hike at Acadia National Park in Maine
Never coming back to Lozano car wash in Sunnyvale price is high and service is poor
August 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Never coming back to Lozano car wash in Sunnyvale price is high and service is poor
Price increases are insane these days, full car wash in Bay Area $44
August 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Price increases are insane these days, full car wash in Bay Area $44
I have been experimenting with Gen AI tools for over a year and recently created a scheduling agent to add Giants and Warrior games to my calendar so I can plan around traffic disruptions read about it here medium.com/manipande/my...
My Foray into Creating an Agent for Scheduling
Recently, we moved to the Rincon Hill neighborhood in San Francisco, and the neighborhood is close to SF Giants’ Oracle Park and the Chase…
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August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I have been experimenting with Gen AI tools for over a year and recently created a scheduling agent to add Giants and Warrior games to my calendar so I can plan around traffic disruptions read about it here medium.com/manipande/my...
A beautiful sunny day in San Francisco, blessed to be enjoying myself these days, untethered from negative energy
August 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A beautiful sunny day in San Francisco, blessed to be enjoying myself these days, untethered from negative energy
In SF you can really feel the inflation & price gouging, the local coffee shop jacked up the price for a latte to almost $9 how can a business justify it, dog food was almost two times of what I can buy on Amazon
July 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In SF you can really feel the inflation & price gouging, the local coffee shop jacked up the price for a latte to almost $9 how can a business justify it, dog food was almost two times of what I can buy on Amazon
I will miss the Late Night show with Stephen Colbert have been a regular watcher for years
July 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I will miss the Late Night show with Stephen Colbert have been a regular watcher for years
Linkedin believes I have multi-faceted skills I can be an auto salesperson, pool manager or an oncologist, the algo like everything else on Linkedin is screwed
July 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Linkedin believes I have multi-faceted skills I can be an auto salesperson, pool manager or an oncologist, the algo like everything else on Linkedin is screwed
Great read that ranks AI companies from evil to less evil, and just like the writer I use GenAI everyday - it's good to know the cost of using these tools to society, humanity and environment medium.com/@cwodtke/i-l...
I Love Generative AI and Hate the Companies Building It
A Ranking from Most to Least Evil
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July 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Great read that ranks AI companies from evil to less evil, and just like the writer I use GenAI everyday - it's good to know the cost of using these tools to society, humanity and environment medium.com/@cwodtke/i-l...
Feel bad for all employees of Windsurf who were not invited to join Google and whose equity disappeared in a day
July 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Feel bad for all employees of Windsurf who were not invited to join Google and whose equity disappeared in a day