How many evals do you have on that prompt? Zero? Congrats, you've just built an expensive random text generator.

A sure sign of stupidity is pettiness.

A planner's tradeoff: It takes one day to estimate with the precision of one month. It takes one month to estimate with the precision of one day.

Shampoo for men: to wash your hair, body and your car.

I once fixed a disabled client-side feature on an airline's booking site and immediately purchased my tickets through them.

A conclusion from watching "Primitive Technology": at the moment a village can afford feeding and freeing up one smart guy, the entire civilization can be restored from scratch within a generation or two.

This is an international chess game, but fortunately, we're holding all the aces.

An unbelievable marketing achievement by Signal LLC.

Everyone should remember - it's because of people like them that we don't have direct democracy.

Extremism is the privilege of fools.

As a manager, you have only two jobs: the people and the projects. The former doesn't mean your job is to keep them happy at any cost. The latter doesn't mean your job is to complete them at any cost.

Blessed are those who attend a sermon or read tehillim. Not for their faith in god, but for they believe words have meaning.

People want to follow orders that lead to success. Surprised when that doesn't work.

At high scale, software development velocity is a function of subjective shipping confidence. A robust suite of tests and static checks accelerates delivery - not so much by catching bugs, as by giving developers the courage to ship without excessive caution and endless second-guessing.

Planes don't flap their wings, but we think of them as capable of Artificial General Flying. They, however, cannot do many things birds can. Similarly, AGI will not be able to do many things we can, but we won't need it to flap.

We should expect the unexpected because the unexpected happens here with expected regularity.

My commitment to satisfying your long-term needs prevents me from fulfilling your short-term desires.

Guess what happens when management announces they won't backfill positions for departing employees to "rightsize the workforce"? Everyone starts slacking off! After all, why hustle when working at 30% capacity keeps you safe - managers would rather have a warm body than an empty desk.

A short story:
She had bought new suitcases. He cannot identify them at the carousel, and he is mad at her. Because she is dead.

A short story:
Left. Right. Left. Right. Her father's eyes. She swipes left, instinctively.

A short story:
A man and a dog in a darkened house. The man injects and waits. The dog waits too. Then steals the last blueberry scone off the counter.

"It was good while it lasted" is probably the most profound representation of the human experience. It weaves time, luck, death, and happiness into one tight truth.

Courage is not universal. Fascinating how a man can show bravery in one area of life, yet be fearful in another.

Simpson's Paradox YouTube video by minutephysics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEk...

Some cartoons have the power to explain the world. This is one of them.

The ultimate goal of artificial intelligence research is to make an irrational machine.

Somewhat paradoxically, paranoia is good for your survival but not for your health.

The best way to find how people feel is to ask what they think.

A real approved patent on automated throwing of airplane hijackers out of the plane:
patents.google.com/patent/US381...

No one knows how to measure software developer productivity, but everyone confidently claims they are 27.5% more productive now.