Actually, Hacks are Bad

If I may — a “hack” is not a good thing. At their best, hacks are clever, temporary exploits that get you where you need for the time being, or if you’re a criminal, a way to bypass security that (by definition) you aren’t supposed to be bypassing. Most hacks are just crappy, lazy, unrealistic […]

Rage as a Service

Trolling people is easier than being funny or clever. This is not a new challenge, but here we are, once again pretending that failing at it is a tactic and not a weakness. “Some advertising and marketing agencies are now intentionally leaning into the volatility of the current political climate, not to take a stand […]

Accountablli-Buddy

My Theory of Productivity Allow me a theory. I probably didn’t invent this, but if I did, bully for me. Work output, when increased beyond the amount of available accountability, without a matching increase the available accountability, will never generate a lasting increase in productivity. Here’s what I mean by all these terms. Work output […]

Incredulity

Every day, there are many things I don’t do because I think they are fundamentally wrong. Some of those things might get me something I want, or closer to something I want, or away from something I don’t want to do, but I find them wrong so I don’t do them. This does not make […]

Real-World Vibe Coding

It’s been a couple years since I took my first look at generative AI and concluded that the most likely use case for this kind of technology, by far, was “better” spam. Since then, despite all the activity, investment, discussion, and model releases, nothing has really fundamentally changed my mind about that. While image generation […]

Uneventful

For the last year, I’ve had to do a bunch of event logistics for work, and… I really did not enjoy doing this work. It’s not a huge deal or anything (I wasn’t exactly working in a bauxite mine), and it really was the most useful thing I could have been doing in my function, […]