One Punch Man Manga Review One Punch Man (OPM) is my favorite manga of all time. It’s on point with my sense of humor and it’s the series that got me into manga to begin with.

And it’s all thanks to my beloved One Punch Man: smschumacher.com/manga/one-pu...

Manga Reviews I read a lot of manga, so I’ve started to review the different series here as I get through them. I mostly read shonen and some seinen manga.

I’ve been so busy with work projects I haven’t made time for my own… a couple weekends ago I finally got around to adding manga reviews to my personal website just because I can. Slowly reviewing all the stuff I’ve read now and it’s super fun.

smschumacher.com/manga-reviews/

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The real benefit of natural peanut butter is the fact that you expend all the calories you’re about to eat just by attempting to stir it.

To the purple hulk cat (?) on Fortnite tonight, who I took out at Floodgate: I realized you must have glitched at that exact moment.

I just want you to know that at the end of that very match, during the final firefight, I too, lost connection and met my demise. The WiFi has avenged you. 🫡

Elephant labeled "The entire world's IT infrastructure" stands on a beach ball labeled "Open source software" supported by ants labeled "Unpaid open source devs.

SAME.

I also recently saw this sadly relevant meme shared by @danknauss.wtf which made me think of this podcast by @edzitron.com: www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

I'm building an AI meal planner, and both ChatGPT and Claude are making up fake recipe links.

ChatGPT: "I should have clearly verified and linked to real, working recipe pages instead of placeholder-style links or slightly inaccurate URLs."

You think?

(No it doesn't, because it's AI) 😂

An xkcd cartoon shows a complex stack labeled "All modern digital infrastructure" resting on a small piece labeled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003.

Never not relevant:

The experience is just… different. Seems cool, solid metal out of the box, but screw covers disappeared in 2 weeks, always worried I’ll slip and knock it over/shatter glass because it’s a harder press for some reason. I love my Aeropress Go but purely wanted to cut down on potential microplastics.

Oof, had to go back to see what filter you have. I had thought about getting one of those, and will not do that now. I bought the new glass/metal Aeropress because I use it every day and I’ll be honest… it’s a little disappointing.

That would be a fantastic tshirt.

I just lost all desire to read this book. Oh well.

I like cloth.

My favorite hoodie of all time that I live in has been discontinued and I need to yell into the void. I hate the so-called fashion industry. Huge gap here for a company that can just do a few things well. Ughhhhhhhh

WHY DO COMPANIES MAKE AN AMAZING ITEM THEN JUST “RETIRE” IT FOR NO REASON UGHHHHHHHHH

EP9: Freelancing: A Minimum Viable Business In EP9, we navigate the murky waters of freelancers vs. entrepreneurs with a detour into personal branding, personal goals, and leveraging personality types.

I ended up running an agency because I started out as a freelancer. Which is what we talk about in last week's podcast. Listen in below or on your favorite podcast app to learn why we all hate top hats. 🎩

founderproblems.com/ep9-freelanc...

Dear Black People, It’s Time We Divest from The American Experiment “For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will…

We need to stop using the word "boycott" though, which sounds temporary. Permanently change behaviors is absolutely it. louisbyrd.medium.com/dear-black-p...

I have, actually, but I wasn’t following him here. Remedied that.

OK Fine, I’ll Talk About AI [Part 1] I’m sick of hearing about AI, but I get asked about it, I use it, and it isn’t going away. So let’s talk artificial intelligence.

I’m both tired of hearing about AI while thinking people are not talking enough about certain aspects. I’m finally writing about it.

Part one is about my initial feelings and high-level considerations. Read and subscribe here for the next one (on how I use it).

smschumacher.com/ok-fine-ill-...

In the latest podcast we talk silver linings after setbacks. Then veered into public speaking tips, survivorship bias, and pattern recognition. It's wide-ranging but with some great practical nuggets... have a listen (or watch) and let us know what you think.

founderproblems.com/ep8-finding-...

This entire thread is fascinating, and reminds me of the way everything is framed as right vs. left when it’s always been about class.

The operative questions: who benefits? Who is incentivized to create certain dichotomies in how people talk about these concepts?

Oh they definitely still sell the plastic ones (and the Go is great for travel). But for something I use at least once every day, I was happy to upgrade to this.

Only the first use, but the press process feels a bit… wobblier? Because the aluminum insert sides don’t touch the glass. But also I’m short and it’s not a comfortable press height on my counter so might be part of it. It felt like more pressure as well.

What an effing idiot who has no idea how the real world works. Unbelievable.

Image of a dark gray granite countertop, with a glass and metal Aeropress coffeemaker brewing atop a white Miir camp cup.

Look at this beauty. New glass and aluminum Aeropress just arrived.

I love my Aeropress Go but happy I get to start using this everyday and cut back on the daily dose of microplastics.

The reason fascism is defeated only by the application of power (through violence or overwhelming solidarity) and not the mechanisms of democracy or civil society is that it is immune to shame. It only cares for power and it only responds to real power.

Screenshot of the settings window of Twitter saying "Your account is deactivated."

It is done.

Finally.

Haven't used Xitter since Musk completed his takeover, but finally got around to export/deletion of the account while locking username.

See @mor10.com post on process if you need help: mor10.com/how-to-delet...

A graphic promoting Founder Problems podcast Episdoe 7: Rented vs. Owned Platforms: In this episode we discuss rented versus owned digital Internet platforms, because social media accounts are great until they pull the rug out from under you. A cute little dumpster fire is in the corner, his single tear betraying the overwhelm behind the holding-it-together smile, because business is hard and anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

Latest podcast episode dropped last week: on Rented vs. Owned Platforms, which is a frequent conversation topic here.

I wrote about this a month or two ago in one of my newsletters, but if you prefer audio, check it out at founderproblems.com (it will be the last one with mediocre sound).

"Social psychologists call this inability to rest "idleness aversion," which makes it sound like just another minor behavioral foible; but in his famous theory of the "Protestant work ethic," the German sociologist Max Weber argued that it was one of the core ingredients of the modern soul. It first emerged, according to Weber's account, among Calvinist Christians in northern Europe, who believed in the doctrine of predestination that every human, since before they were born, had been preselected to be a member of the elect, and therefore entitled to spend eternity in heaven with God after death, or else as one of the damned, and thus guaranteed to spend it in hell. Early capitalism got much of its energy, Weber argued, from Calvinist merchants and tradesmen who felt that relentless hard work was one of the best ways to prove to others, but also to themselves-that they belonged to the former category rather than the latter. Their commitment to frugal living supplied the other half of Weber's theory of capitalism: when people spend their days generating vast amounts of wealth through hard work but also feel obliged not to fritter it away on luxuries, the inevitable result is large accumulations of capital." (Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks)

Book quote of the day…

I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵