there are times when it makes sense to throw out the Theory of Mind and just pretend other people are not rational creatures. driving is one them. investing is another

investors behave more like schools of fish than like people

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

When someone uses a library rather than writing their own function to see if a string is either null or empty. Congratulations, it's now a dependency to pull in, manage, which can break on you all to save 2 or 3 lines. I hate "hello world" dependencies.

On this day I'll toast MLK and remember the good that people outside of politics can do to move our society forward.

The number of use cases that I see people make streaming and real-time that don't need to be, is 'too damn high'.