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The culture of postmortems makes us overreact on not repeating mistakes. But perhaps, we should be more categorical about preventing new ones.I often think that a better rule of thumb to postmortems could be:If it’s the first time a mistake happens, acknowledge it and move on. If it’s the second time, then ensure that it does not happen again.This would save organizations from a lot of useless policies and initiatives, since most mistakes only happen once.
A take on how docile and boring AI gets as an intellectual companion. The article reviews several episodes of people getting mad⎯including Gandalf, and how genuine those interactions feel instead of AI’s servant-style.This reminds me of Jack Kerouac’s most famous quote from “On the road”. What will it take to have an AI to behave like Neal Cassady*?…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww! ⎯ Jack Kerouac(*) or Dean Moriarty, depending on which version you’ve read
Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically wasteful with their time.There are at least two ways to take this. One is that Seneca thought he used his time better than you and I do, and maybe he did. Another interpretation is that everyday life, for most people, is an untapped gold mine.Things break all the time, and we get used to it. We accept a decreased quality of life when most things just require a little time investment to be fixed.This article is a short and sweet reminder to invest your time in fixing stuff. A message that resonates a lot with developers, which spend most of their time fighting brokenness.
Yet another exploration of bridging the mother of all software (excel) with databases. I'm curious to see the UX, since there are definitely challenges to trying to square the circle. It is true that Postgres, with RLS, can get closer to an excel experience, since authorization is one of the biggest gaps to overcome.
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