I hope my kids don't find out pokemon are lego now. I need that money for food.

How does the GOP reconcile running on fiscal discipline and then skyrocketing the deficit? This is a great read: www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartman...

This analysis is based entirely on 'feelings' but it seems like it used to be $10-12/seat was kind of a standard monthly price point, but now it's $16 - 20/seat

I don't know if it's inflation or the cost of injecting AI to every tool, but I feel like SaaS subscription prices are so much higher than they used to be

This notification is making Steve Jobs spin in his immaculately minimalist grave

As someone who hasn't been following along closely for the past few years, this is a wild thing to see in the timeline.

My goal in life is to be more useful than a HEIC file. It's a low bar.

Career goal #1: be in a career where I never feel like I have to open up LinkedIn

Noise-cancelling headphones that block the sound of you chewing hard pretzels

I hope my homeschool children will one day appreciate how nice it is that they can wake up, put on some footie pajamas, and be entirely ready for their day

Lurking in the dark corners of my mind for more than 20 years, it turns out, has been the knowledge of how to beat all the levels in Goldeneye for N64

Face ID, but it works when you're yawning

Apple has such an incredible moat through their devices that if I were running their AI strategy, I'd focus entirely on getting heavily-OS integrated experiences exactly right before releasing anything.

Apple awkwardly jamming into my mac settings menu an announcement about something called "Image Playground" is so indicative of their desperate AI catchup strategy.

Seeing what's effectively an ad in a system settings window: what is this, windows?

They should make an "unsubscribe" button that works for just all emails

ChatGPT just helped me center an item in CSS on the first try. I'm now willing to admit AI is the future.

Ahh ok. Yeah I've settled into a groove with GPT's o3-mini-high - it really seems to work for the js and sql stuff I throw at it

While I'm spitting out product recommendations, bentoboxapp.com has changed how I use my dual screen mac setup. Highly recommend.

Granola is the best meeting note taker I've used and it's not even close

What's your main use case? I keep jumping back and forth

Right - what problem are they trying to solve, and what does it look like when that problem is solved? In other words: if you're building them a product/tool, how will they be transformed by it?

I usually default to figuring out why they want xyz and then planting other ideas for getting at the same outcome

Six for March 10 How to prioritize work better, why you should almost always buy instead of build, how to hire people who drive outcomes, and more.

Another six actionable reads for startup leaders. Featuring:

- Product discovery basics from @producttalk.bsky.social
- Prioritize better, from @johannarothman.bsky.social
- Understanding AI agents
- Buy, don't build, from @cjgustafson.bsky.social
- Hire people who do the work

The number of emails I get to "Issac" is far too high when you had to correctly spell my name in the email address for it to even reach me

As someone with first and last names that are easy to misspell:

it's easier than ever before to double-check you spelled someone's name right, meaning that *not* checking is increasingly a signal of carelessness and/or disrespect.

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter. 4⭐. 15 ratings. 2 reviews. 321 pages. The influence of modern life on the civil wars, with an emphasis on grievance, f...

Recommend.

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We're going to have stranded assets one way or another. Either oil derricks or... much of the earth.

Why I track every working minute I've improved my focus, make better decisions, and feel less guilty about productivity.

I just spent one hour and fifty-five minutes writing this post about why I track every minute of my working day
dawnchorus.substack.com/p/why-i-trac...

Ironically that framework would probably downrank dishes containing actual rice

This is clearly really cool, but also doesn't really work for my non-developer use case.

It's kind of like the trickster genie who grants you a wish, but gives you the ironically terrible version of what you asked for