Alex Dobrenko

I appreciated writer Claire Voon’s framing of the lawn flamingo phenomenon:

[The flamingo’s] enduring presence speaks to a desire to accessorize and embellish our personal spaces ; to transform and color the generic with individual tastes. As Featherstone told the Chicago Tribune : “An empty lawn is like an empty coffee table; you have to do

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Well... I think hindsight is dangerous in its clarity sometimes

I use Claude.ai mostly for research, the way I used to use a search engine before it returned mostly spam.

I have never ever used AI to generate text in place of my “voice”. No emails. No sentences in my articles or books or even comments. Nothing pretending to be me.

I enjoy the challenge of writing myself. It’s organized thinking. It’s the doing... See more

At least the puke is not your own.

Also, don’t fall into the trap of productivity porn—chasing productivity for its own sake isn’t helpful. Many people spend too much time thinking about how to perfectly optimize their system, and not nearly enough asking if they’re working on the right problems.