Visakan Veerasamy: inner sanctums (more)

Andy Matuschak on Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies (more)

Eliot Peper: Tiny ports of human connection. I am delighted to report that, in its first year of operation, Eliot’s Cozy Little Internet Bookstore did $5,023 in sales. (more)

Joe Procopio: Databricks CEO Just Dropped The Most Honest Advice About The Future Of AI. Here’s a little secret for you. The next wave of GenAI success is going to be completely dependent on structured data. (more)

Claude Code Best Practices. Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing close to raw model access without forcing specific workflows. This design philosophy creates a flexible, customizable, scriptable, and safe power tool. While powerful, this flexibility presents a learning curve for engineers new to agentic coding tools—at least until they develop their own best practices. (more)

Aakash Gupta: How to Turn Claude Code into an Operating System with Carl Vellotti. (for product management) (more)

Barbie Event in Florida Draws Comparisons to Fyre Festival. Fans had high hopes for Barbie Dream Fest, a Mattel-sanctioned gathering in Fort Lauderdale. But in a cavernous convention center, the dream seemed to fizzle. (more)

device combining multiple tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitool (more)

In 1991 Momus said In the future everyone will be Famous For Fifteen People. A take-off on Andy Warhol's claim that everyone would be "famous for 15 minutes" (Celebrity) (more)

ink-and-switch frame for software that can be very-easily-customized (situated software)

Geoffrey Litt: Everyone should design software. I predict we’ll look back at the debate around "should designers code" as just an opening salvo in a much bigger wave of change. Yes, AI tools are enabling more people to code within software teams. (more)

For cooking rice, where you can set/forget, and have it last for 3+ days so it's always available. (more)

A piece of content/experience that tends to nudge one toward a subversive (non-status-quo reality hacker) mindset. https://twitter.com/BillSeitz/status/1423311248276561934 (more)

Actor, daemon. With agency? (more)

In a step-by-step process, Marvin Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence which is built up from the interactions of simple parts called Agents, which are themselves mindless. He describes the postulated interactions as constituting a "society of mind", hence the title... Minsky first started developing the theory with Seymour Papert in the early 1970s. Minsky said that the biggest source of ideas about the theory came from his work in trying to create a machine that uses a robotic arm, a video camera, and a computer to build with children's blocks. (more)

Attitude (more)

Mark Joyner: The Road Map of Simpleology (A to Z)... the 30,000-foot view (more)

Mike Taylor: I Achieved the Four-hour Workweek. So Why Did I Just Take a Job? (more)

Cate Hall: Writing A Book is a labor of love. *Shortly before Sasha and I signed our book contract with Harper, I had a crisis of confidence about the project. So I went around asking people who’d written books before: Should we write one? Should we work with a major publisher? Does anyone even read anymore? (more)

Liminal Warmth: Just mentally append, “… assuming any of this is true and I’m not deluding myself” to every statement I make here and we can both be happy. (model agnosticism) (more)