Short ideas, observations, and thoughts still taking shape.
Once I started using AI to help me write, I noticed a few patterns. ## Pattern 1: The deep opening It opens with something that sounds profound: "In this era of rapid change, X is redefining how we ..." Or: "Most people think X. The real pr
Lately I read Andrew Ng's new post on X, [AI Engineering Skills Map: Shaping the build](https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2098459474608672916?s=20), and it made me, an engineer of more than ten years, anxious about my career. The core is one s
For more than twenty years the internet ran on a stable supply-and-demand relationship where everyone, or nearly everyone, won. Sites like blogs gave search engines free content to crawl, and the search engines sent traffic back to those si
I once watched a documentary where a business owner spent a week living as a poor person so he could explain why poor people stay poor. After selling his labor for a life that was not so dignified, the owner reached this conclusion: > The m
Life has far more room for error than most of us assume. One mistake, one failure, does not mean the rest of it collapses. Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms era hardly won a battle. Jensen Huang nearly bankrupted Nvidia more than once. Life is
I found an interesting thread where the author shares seven prompts for using AI to find ways to create wealth. I have not tried them properly yet, so I will update this once I have results. [https://x.com/raul_ia_prod/status/20914467262173
I found [vibeprompts.dev](https://vibeprompts.dev), a site with templates that generate Tailwind CSS components from natural language. Handy to use: it amounts to describing a web page or a component in plain words. My guess is they feed ex
Power is getting other people to do what you want, even when it goes against their own wishes. The methods that work best are force, control of resources, and ideology. *The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought* defines it this way:
I read a post on Zhihu: [From Superpowers to Matt Pocock: Five Things a 200k-Star Skill Library Taught Me](https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2080340948517765897). Matt's approach fits how I work with agents today better than Superpowers does. Th
> A genuinely good game has a core pleasure that cuts through the era it was made in. I read that line in an article and agreed with it immediately. A good game can be replayed endlessly, and the choices may lead somewhere different each ti
Imagination鈥攁nd our ability to make connections between things鈥攎ay be one of the most powerful tools humans have ever had. But I have started to feel that this ability is being weakened by modern life. I can see it in myself. My own capacit
Some articles are simply hard to read鈥攏ot because we are not trying hard enough, but because they were never written to teach in the first place. Sometimes, their purpose is merely to explain something briefly or to serve as a record. They
If you want to improve quickly, one of the best things you can do is take on something genuinely difficult. Hard problems expose the weaknesses you used to overlook鈥攐r simply chose to ignore. More importantly, the feedback they give you is
Happiness is not a goal to be reached. It is a state we can learn to remain in. Naval Ravikant once said that if a person can maintain a peaceful state of mind, that itself is a form of happiness鈥攚hat he calls peaceful happiness. Peaceful h