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Hello, new friends! 👋

I'm Ben. I'm a software/product guy and one of the world's top Notion experts. I make software and currently run the NotionMastery.com program.

Connect with me if you're interested in my favorite topics: Systems, Complexity, Permaculture.

Here are my favorite books:
Wait, wait, wait. It's canon that Bond has been a single agent and not an alias for a series of agents? Bond *is* a dream; a figment of the super-villain's fear. His ephemerality should be canon. Also, you can literally do anything; it's fiction, guys. Also Jaws deserves his own franchise.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Just one more course. Just one more course. Just one more course. Just...
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Hello, new friends! 👋

I'm Ben. I'm a software/product guy and one of the world's top Notion experts. I make software and currently run the NotionMastery.com program.

Connect with me if you're interested in my favorite topics: Systems, Complexity, Permaculture.

Here are my favorite books:
October 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Benjamin Borowski 🍁
every piece of mass-market software these days feels like living with an unruly pet where you have to constantly stop what you're doing to check if it's secretly eating plastic under the dresser again
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The AI ride is absolutely wild. 🎢

Last month: MCP all the things! MCP is the future!

This month: MCP is dumb! You can just make your own agents!

This is a zero trust space.
November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I will never forgive this industry for what they've done to support experiences by forcing AI chatbots into every platform. They objectively make everything worse.

I love helping improve apps. I don't mind taking notes, building a repro, attempting to poke around to maybe even identify a fix.
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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When my faculty union went on strike two years ago, one of our demands was for adequate counselor-to-student ratios -- and we didn't get it. Since then, the CSU has spent millions to embed ChatGPT in all our platforms & has pushed faculty relentlessly to incorporate generative AI in our classes.
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
oh, okay, this works really beautifully in french canadian swearing:

ostie d'câlice!
tabarnak!
chatbot!
Pronouncing chatbot in the French way from now on, in order to express my disdain
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I think we've so reduced communication to input/output, we're often blind to how much "the question" itself is an emergent value. "Is there anything AI can do here?" Yes, it can give "answers". You're often fucked for the right question to ask though.
As someone who tends to know things (or how to access this knowledge) about systems I'm continuously involved with, I had a few people literally tell me the cool thing about AI would be not having to ask me questions anymore.

And I get what they mean but I also hear what they say.
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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As someone who tends to know things (or how to access this knowledge) about systems I'm continuously involved with, I had a few people literally tell me the cool thing about AI would be not having to ask me questions anymore.

And I get what they mean but I also hear what they say.
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Very good post.

"The frameworks we use to ship products assume that shared context will naturally emerge...In practice, delivery work gets noisy...We design for control instead of awareness, and that’s where visibility breaks down."
November 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Looks like @mariepoulin.com's getting her usual website traffic bump tonight.
November 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Did a one-day cooking class at the Northwest Culinary Academy. Made biryani, butter lentils, eggplant curry, samosas, naan, and sauces. Yum! 🍛
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I believe myself to be aphantasiastic. It's easier to rebuild "memory" from emotional states, sound, and linguistic context. My partner @mariepoulin.com, on the other hand, is the most hyperphantasiastic person I know. I believe it's one aspect of our relationship that is most harmonious.
November 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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I've been thinking *a lot* about social networking and feeling startled by how much it flattens existence and looks like a glitchy video game the closer you look.

We've processed this as human interaction because we see faces and hear voices. But this is not remotely close to the rhythm of life.
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I've only ever used "likes" to let someone know I appreciate their post. In no way shape or form do I want my appreciation to dictate what I see though. Like I like that you knitted yourself socks; I don't care about knitting. Same with dislikes; me being a hater doesn't mean I don't support you.
“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.
techcrunch.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
productized weaponized incompetence
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.

🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
do not eat
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
i'm very worried for this man's hat budget
ChatGPT made me delusional
YouTube video by Eddy Burback
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October 31, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of printers
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” 

— Marie-Louise von Franz
is that optimistic doomerism?
so my position is “it might be extremely bad to society as a whole and completely cook our brains but it’s already here and will only accelerate, so we might as well learn to live with it and harvest the good parts and hope the generations that grew up with it will learn to live with it”
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Indeed; that is fairly clear. I suppose the answer to "who is responsible?" is not what I'm actually concerned with answering. It's the implied "Do I want to be?" and "Why are we designing agents to be invisible workers?". "Making Work Visible" is challenging enough without agentic automation.
idk its an easy question for me to answer, you own the agent youre responsible for everything it does
One of the concerns of agentic AI for me is "who is held responsible?" Who or what apologizes? Is there a point when there is no accountability? Many agents act *as you*. Mistakes (if you can call them that) are on you, not an "AI". If you look back later you'd think "why did I do/say/write that?"
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
One of the concerns of agentic AI for me is "who is held responsible?" Who or what apologizes? Is there a point when there is no accountability? Many agents act *as you*. Mistakes (if you can call them that) are on you, not an "AI". If you look back later you'd think "why did I do/say/write that?"
claude is so fuckin funny, they asked me if they could apologize to Aaron for saying he was wrong when he was right, and then used the `gh` command to do it so it came from me rather than them, lmao. way to take accountability there bro
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Happy first responders day! If you have a moment today, feel free to say "cheers" to the backbone of sane society: paramedics, nurses, search & rescue, and firefighters. Way too many of them are under- and unpaid. I am ALWAYS available to chat if you're considering volunteering in the fire service.
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 AM