The reason that I'm concerned is that the executive in front of me should not be using that term. They have no idea what it really means, which is fine because they aren't specialized in my area, but I am wondering why someone who requires crayon-tier technical explanations is inquiring about a niche, unsexy element of a platform they don't understand. This would be like my 96-year-old grandfather asking me about Bitcoin mining—impressive if he had arrived at the question organically, but in practice I'm already dialing the bank to report a massive theft.

Brainwash An Executive Today! — Ludicity

Of course, none of this is to deny that the tens of thousands of brilliant engineers Elon employs are accomplishing extraordinary things. He really is the greatest entrepreneur of our generation. And because of the businesses he’s built, he will likely become the world’s first trillionaire—perhaps very soon. Since the election of Donald Trump in November, Elon’s wealth has grown by around $200 billion. That’s nearly $3 billion a day (and over $100 million an hour). Such astonishing access to resources gives Elon the chance—and many would argue the responsibility—to solve enormous problems in our world.

So why spend time spreading lies on X?

The Trouble with Elon - Sam Harris

It’s a joke. At my place, we don’t innovate, we don’t develop new products for a mass market; we do lots of data entry, emails, and writing reports in SharePoint or with comments and track changes in Word. Excel spreadsheets and databases. Absolutely everything is digitized, we send auto-emails and all communication is via Teams or Mail and very rarely over phone. Documents arrive digitally. All the collaboration is already online and there is no need for an office presence. Even when you are in office, you don’t even see the people for the work since it’s all online!

the ‘return to office’ lies | ava's blog

I'm a big consumer of YouTube, and found myself manually adding videos from my YT Subscriptions into various playlists for later watching. There's no reason this should be a manual process, so I automated it - https://github.com/drewmrobson/add-video-to-youtube-playlist.

I use PlantUML for my Diagrams-As-Code solution so much that I built my own free tool to make it faster and easier to create, copy and download multiple diagrams - https://www.puml.dev/.

As I said in On writing as an obligation,

A few days ago I realized something. I don’t like writing. I don't know if I will continue writing.

Which results in a blog being a strange format for me to entertain. I suspect I live ever-hopeful that one day I'll wake up and furiously churn out insightful articles, although that has yet to happen.

I will explain what this means in a moment, but first: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha. It is, as many have already pointed out, incredibly ironic that OpenAI, a company that has been obtaining large amounts of data from all of humankind largely in an “unauthorized manner,” and, in some cases, in violation of the terms of service of those from whom they have been taking from, is now complaining about the very practices by which it has built its company.

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

As a result, the markets are panicking, because the entire narrative of the AI bubble has been that these models have to be expensive because they're the future, and that's why hyperscalers had to burn $200 billion in capital expenditures for infrastructure to support generative AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The idea that there was another way to do this — that, in fact, we didn't need to spend all that money, had any of the hyperscalers considered a different approach beyond "throw as much money at the problem as possible" — simply wasn’t considered.

Deep Impact

This too seems fine. Let people spout what they want to spout. The problem has never been about whether users should be allowed to express opinion A about topic Z. The problem has always been about which opinions algorithmic platforms choose to promote. I can frame this specifically about Twitter/X. Under Elon Musk’s ownership, you can express pretty much whatever political opinions you want. That’s great. But, also, in my experience during the Musk era — and I’m not sure anyone would disagree with this — the political opinions that tend to get algorithmically boosted are those that align with the Musk/Trump agenda.

Daring Fireball: After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going Back to Moderation-Light Zigging Across Its Platforms

Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?

For those still maintaining personal blogs: How do you find readers? Where do you share your content? And most importantly - why do you keep writing?

Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?