Boy's first long ride on his new bike.
"Receiving an unannounced phone call is listed in the DSM-V as a traumatic event.
"Also, remember to be careful with your wording: if you text 'Call me,' that is assault."
pointsincase.com/articles/the-rules-of-modern-phone-etiquette-by-a-totally-healthy-introvert
More capitalism satire like this plz
I wonder if his satisfaction is also immense
"I’m frankly confused by the apparent lack of attention and exploration around this use case. Especially since some early indicators suggest the way people are currently using generative AI leads to a reduction in critical thinking"
A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
"The last 75 years of software development are not suddenly irrelevant because of LLMs, and if you want to be a true platform for the future, then playtime is over—you have to actually make the thing work."
"perhaps grief can be seen as a kind of exalted state where the person who is grieving is the closest they will ever be to the fundamental essence of things...there is a transformative aspect to this place of suffering."
I have a coworker who is grieving their father, who I knew, and was one of the good ones. In my notes last week I wrote, "Grief is the most universal human experience, but experienced differently by every human, and no human wants to experience it fully. In this way it is the thing that brings us the closest to God."
The feelings of grief honor the one we are grieving.
Diminishing those feelings, or attempting platitudes about God's will, dishonor the mystery of the Greatest Love and its attempts to connect with its creation.
When grieving, find those that hold without speaking. Find quiet, complex music.
I stopped writing blog posts about this day in 2019.
"It’s good to be beyond the forgetting and on to the remembering."
📝 Thread with 4 posts
A long meander about a normal if premature eye surgery and a chance to retell a weird story from 25 years ago
