Ryan Cook

I feel like my kids like that I am always up puttering around. I am always there and available. At night, they can see the lamp of my office and hear me making a hullabaloo and clacking away at my desk as they lie tucked in their beds. They will often get up and come in with sleep in their eyes to ask me to tuck them back in. In the morning, when they climb out of bed they can hear my wife and me making coffee and chit-chatting or unloading the dishwasher. I remember lying in bed as a kid and hearing the grownups talking and laughing sitting around the table over the tinkling of spoons in coffee mugs. When I think back on it, many of my most prized memories are memories of a feeling, a mood. The feeling then was that I belonged in a family of people who had always been there and who would always be there. My own cast of characters. I knew when I padded out to them in my pajamas they would all turn to look and smile at me and someone would pull me onto their lap and hold me close.

Nothing makes me more bullish about the US than the thought of bringing back nuclear power. An economy is a machine for turning energy into wealth, and without energy, it all comes to a halt.

I understand it. Probably my only ‘real fear’ in life. When you become a dad, you experience a whole new form of love. You feel it when you see their smiles, hear their laughter, or get a hug from them. When they fall asleep on top of you. When they play together or do something sweet for someone else. When you just sit there watching them have fun with your wife, their mom. You don’t want any of it to ever end. And that’s probably my only genuine deep fear in life. Because it will end. They won’t stay little forever. They won’t need you the way they need you now. And one day you’ll be gone too. And one day, nobody will even remember these moments. It scares the hell out of me. And there’s no solution. Whenever this fear hits me, I remind myself to be there in every moment. To have that extra patience to actually enjoy everything. And when I finish reading that bedtime book, even though im tired as well, and they ask for one more I read that extra book or read another chapter.

I am 1 year in to opening drive thru coffee stores in California I’m blown away by how far apart the planning departments are from the residents Many concepts are spending years to get approvals. Enormous development hurdles. Then they open and are overwhelmed with business.

Canceling 8 x ChatGPT 500 subs w/@OpenAI. If you value your time, then OpenAI just isn't it right now. Poor service availability, and inference is super, super slow. This isn't even about model quality; the problems go far beyond that. @claudeai is 100/100 better choice right now, faster inferencing, better availability and the models are better too.

Yea this plus IRS changes. Examples: 1) allow mass affluent Boomers to easily pass retirement money to kids/grandkids 2) rich Boomers that forgo SS/MA all together get big tax deduction and/or higher lifetime gift limit 3) make Boomer mortgages transferable to first-time buyers

For the last few days, I’ve been using /poteto-mode to help with hill-climbing improvements to the agent we’re building into @DaltonMillsAI. It’s been a huge help teaching agents how to coordinate the process and measure at each step.