Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washp
... See more“Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.”
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Shunryu Suzuki
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Shunryu Suzuki
A quote by Shunryu Suzuki
So: GPT-3 is incredibly powerful, but it’s only as good as its training data. And GPT-3 achieves its power through the vastness of its training data-set. Such data-sets are cannot be hand-picked for some sensitive, subtle value. They are most likely to be built around simple, easy-to-capture targets. And such targets are likely to drive us towards ... See more
dailynous.com • Philosophers on GPT-3 (
I know everyone here knows what local-first is about, but here's a quick recap for people watching who might not.
When we talk about “local-first,” we’re primarily talking about where data lives and how it syncs to our devices.
So in the old school world, before the cloud, our data and our software lived on a single machine and we had no way to colla... See more
When we talk about “local-first,” we’re primarily talking about where data lives and how it syncs to our devices.
So in the old school world, before the cloud, our data and our software lived on a single machine and we had no way to colla... See more
Maggie Appleton • Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
great primer on the history of ‘local-first’
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On Inboxes
I have two conceptual inboxes.
First one, inbox.md , is where the most interesting links end up, together with my random thoughts, waiting for a weekly review. I mainly append to that file through iOS shortcut. I can quickly share a twitter link, or jot a quick note in drafts.
Second one is a bit more convoluted. Sometimes during the day ... See more
On Inboxes
I have two conceptual inboxes.
First one, inbox.md , is where the most interesting links end up, together with my random thoughts, waiting for a weekly review. I mainly append to that file through iOS shortcut. I can quickly share a twitter link, or jot a quick note in drafts.
Second one is a bit more convoluted. Sometimes during the day ... See more
Memex Dreams
love how he’s thinking about inboxes, especially the necessity of a weekly review
As she grew older, Nevelson only became more devoted to her work, which after all had been the one sustaining force in her life. “I like to work,” she said. “I always did. I think there is such a thing as energy—creation overflowing. . . . In my studio I’m as happy as a cow in her stall. My studio is the only place where everything is all
... See moreHatred is depressing—it is of course depressing to be hated, but it is also depressing to hate. The erosion of the social safety net means that more and more people are at a sudden breaking point, and there are few messages of authentic comfort to offer them in these pitiless times. One is done in by disease, by isolation and despair, and by life c
... See morenewyorker.com • Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and Preventable Tragedies
A more sensible way to think about where conversations need to be broken up, that’s not topic, is format. In a physical space, the analogy might be—if half of my guests are drinking wine from expensive stemware and half of my guests are playing Twister, I might send the Twister players into another room so they don’t elbow-knock a glass of Chablis.... See more
