I have always tried to hire more for an attitude than skills. “A recruiting team that looks like a college admissions office is certain death for a startup. If you’re built to simply sift through a swarm of homogeneous candidates,… Read More »Hire People Who Give a Shit
This. It points out exactly what I do not like about LLMs. “This concludes all the testing for GPT5 I have to do. If a tool is able to actively mislead me this easy, which potentially results in me wasting… Read More »LLMs Are Chronic Liars
On misunderstandings “When a non-engineer talks to another non-engineer, any inappropriate content gets filtered out on the sending end, so what comes out is a sanitized output stream. If two non-engineers talk to each other, the lack of an input… Read More »All Communication is Strategic
Something has shifted “In the past, you had to intentionally dislike people of a specific group and wish them harm. Then you were a bigot. However, this has changed. It is not the intent that matters but the impact.” https://thegeekyleader.com/2025/08/03/how-to-behave-in-the-age-of-callout-and-cancel-culture/
You have no idea what you want or what you are doing. Neither have I “Our imaginations are inherently limited; they can’t include all details at once. ” https://www.experimental-history.com/p/face-it-youre-a-crazy-person
Do we want frictionless world? “LLMs cannot really do people’s jobs – they might be able to kinda do very small parts, especially if quality is not a criterium – but they are always presented as suc” https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/
Quick and interesting thoughts on labor vs. the world “A small team at TikTok can alter the attention patterns of a billion teenagers in months. Meanwhile, educational institutions need years just to update their curricula, and democratic governments require decades… Read More »The Leverage Arbitrage: Why Everything Feels Broken
Facts are important, but they are not enough “The Church had mastered the art of narrative dominance, building a system of stories, symbols, and doctrines that made its authority seem natural and inevitable. The geocentric model was one of the… Read More »Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does
And what is good? “Then came the 17th-century wars of religion, and the rivers of blood they produced. Revulsion toward all that contributed to the Enlightenment, with its disenchantment with religion and the valorization of reason. Enlightenment thinkers said: We… Read More »Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
It is also about breaking culture and common understanding “It turns out we don’t use code review to prevent errors. We use it to help other developers understand and accept our proposed changes to the source code. It is a… Read More »AI Downsides