Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
What is the equivalent semantic niche for a “message in a bottle” today? Where can you leave a message, and a stranger one beach down can find it tomorrow, or TEN YEARS LATER a shoreline on other side of the planet, you have no idea which, if anything? And they’ll get back to you? That combination of anonymity and connection and distance?
When was peak message in a bottle?
Is the code any good? I don’t know. Who cares? Nobody looks at it anyway. AI produces a result, and results are what matter, and if you’re waiting for quality to factor significantly into that equation, I’ve got some bad news about the last 40 years of professional software development for you.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself
Why would I send you to the hell site when I can just post this exceptional tweetstorm about why that sweater costs $500 publicly on Reader?
you could say that the entire internet is one massive victory for maximalism.
Erik Hoel • In 2025, Blogs Will Be the Last Bastion of the Good Internet
Personality testing is a booming business; inevitably, there's a business to build on top of the results. Classifying things, or in this case, people is a step in a series that ultimately leads to the creation of personalized products, services, supplements, etc., based on determined personality.
I'll cop to taking several of them over the years. I find that Enneagram feels the most accurate, though not without some things that are simply inaccurate.
All the apps and
Habby looks like a nice, minimalist journal and habit tracker. I have no use for it, so of course I downloaded it. I can’t decide if 120 characters for a journal entry is a good constraint. I’m leaning toward no. (via)
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
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