Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Being bored is not just a pause in the dopamine drip, but the void into which thought, desire, and distraction rush to take shape. It is not merely the opposite of stimulation— it is the state from which all stimulation is an escape. There is boredom, and from it, everything else grows.
Bored
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
I did this thing and
I made a little thing this weekend. I had been wanting to create a simple way to publish interesting links in a public way, inspired by the minimalist, text-only link sites I like visiting throughout the day. I hope you enjoy it. Feedback welcome.
Such a great story from a fun interview.
In life, erasure is a sort of luxury. In death, some platforms, like Meta or Apple, allow users to appoint a “Legacy Contact” to manage their accounts. Without that however, the law tends to prioritize the “privacy” of the deceased, making it difficult to remove anything from these accounts posthumously.
The Right to be Forgotten
AI is a fad, but not merely a fad. You can’t merely wait for it to blow over, and imagine that things will be as they were. A lot of it will blow over, but also a lot of things will be blown flat by it. Important matters, customs, infrastructures, cherished ways of life, gone with the wind and never replaced.
Whatever Happens to Music Will Happen to AI (2026)
Life and
