Cashless Sucks - “It’s not in the interests of the ordinary person but it’s not a conspiracy either. A cashless society is a system run amok.” I love that I can pay for everything with a card, but in authoritarian regimes there are real personal stakes.
Free Linear Algebra course on YouTube. I was good at math in high school but never took any college courses. Now it’s nearly 40 years later and I’m remembering how much I liked it. The first lesson was a breeze. The second was… not. Nonetheless, it feels good to stretch my neurons and synapses. Plus, AI uses a lot of linear algebra, so it can’t hurt to know how my future boss thinks.
Flown is a platform/service for “working alone, together.” I write most of my posts during two-hour “Deep Dives.” There are usually 50 people on the Zoom but it doesn’t feel overwhelming. Mostly I just work while a friendly Big Brother video window watches me from my secondary monitor. They have a generous free trial period. I ignored it the first couple of weeks until I finally got around to trying it. Now I do a session almost every single day, including weekends.
Sean Carrol just released AI Thinks Different, a solo Mindscape episode . He provides convincing evidence the LLM’s don’t “think” and suggests avenues for researchers to explore.
Speaking of AI, One Useful Thing has a terrific post that lays out concrete ways AI can be useful in software development beyond mere debugging and code generation
Four Tech Podcasts I Consume Every Week
⚡ The Change Log
⚡ Software Engineering Daily
⚡ Open Source Startup
⚡ Indie Hackers