I think a lot about compounding.  Not in the sense of compounding interest, tho that is a great and powerful thing.  But the compounding of knowledge. One of my favorite books is Jeff Tweedy’s “How to Write One Song”.  He describes how he just keeps plugging away, building an

I am using Claude Code for almost all projects these days, even if they are not explicitly coding projects.  It does such a good job at planning out projects, completing them piecemeal, leaving breadcrumbs, etc.  But it is a strange way to work; most humans won’t want to work

I am old and used keypunch machines and teletype machines back in the day.  But computers really took off for me when I got my own video terminal and a command-line prompt.  That is how I started with the Apple ][ and IBM PCs, that is how I started with Unix

The revolutions in AI silicon, in models, and in large-scale cloud hosting are fascinating.  But ultimately, they are only a small part of the story.  When we look back at the electrification of the country, it was driven by revolutions in large-scale generation and transmission, though not that many people

I have enjoyed the This Modern World comic for years, and this week’s is a good one: Better Things Are Possible.  Go check it out, and if you like Tom Tomorrow’s work, subscribe to his newsletter.  One thing I really miss about the demise of newspapers is the

As I mentioned in the last several weeks, I've taken to creating an app a week using the latest AI tools – I don't have a prayer of understanding the AI wave unless I immerse myself. This week, I turned introspective and built a world cloud app

First off — SEAHAWKS!!!!   Man, what a season.   And while the Super Bowl lacked excitement in some people’s eyes, I love a great defense and a great kicking game.  This sack was wonderful – over and through a lineman: AI and Microsoft I dropped my Microsoft Copilot subscription this week.  I

We seem to be in the midst of a pretty significant disconnect between vibes and reality, at all levels of our society. Look at the national economic policy.  The government is erecting trade walls and telling us all that this is going to be great for the resurgence of US