Owner of Alpine Modern Cafe in Boulder, CO/ Place Maker / Husband / Dad of 3

Boulder, CO
Joined March 2009
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Really nicely done.
Introducing TrellisWM: The Fractal Window Manager for MacOS Its how the desktop should have always been. Download at TrellisWM.app
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i don’t think we’ve fully processed how big this AI wave shift we're living in really is. every app, job and business that was built around humans doing the clicking is about to get rethought. for 40 years computers were like cars where we had to do all the driving, and now they’re becoming chauffeurs where we just say where we want to go.
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Jon Baker retweeted
We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs. You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!
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What if we just shut down AI for two weeks to flatten the curve?
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I think I am going to hold off on Instinct, for now. Product seems incredible, but when it comes to data/security, I want to be a bit more cautious, at the expense of convenience. From my chat with Instinct:
Anyone know who is behind Instinct? Are folks not concerned about privacy, security?
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Jon Baker retweeted
When I say orthogonal instead of unrelated
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Overnight, X became a different app. My feed is slop free. It’s 2019 again! 👏 Well done, @nikitabier.
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Nobody on their deathbed says, “I should have spent more time in the office.” At some point, you have to ask yourself: What am I optimizing for? Having spent 19 years in an office and 12 working from home, here’s the truth: He’s probably right that if you’re solely optimizing for work productivity, commuting to an office every day is better. By how much is highly debatable because a lot of wasted time and inefficiency happens in offices. It probably varies widely by person, but as a creative type, I find offices soul-crushing. I’m far less productive there. If you’re like me and you aspire for more than just a great career, then working from home is the #2 unlock. (#1 is a stay-at-home spouse. If you have both, it’s a 10X multiplier.) The life I want to live simply isn’t possible if I’m sitting in an office (or in traffic) most of the day. I’ll take a small productivity hit (and less money!) in exchange for: 1) Unhurried mornings. 2) Zero time sitting in traffic. 3) Little 5-minute interactions with the family throughout the day. (I call them “in-between moments” and they compound massively.) 4) Wearing shorts and a t-shirt. 5) Exercise and outdoor time when there’s a break in the action. (For me, it’s *part of* the work.) 6) Being able to eat healthy. Final thought: Be careful who you emulate… because you just might pull it off. Before you take someone’s advice, make sure you inspect their *whole* life, not just their career. Ask yourself, “Is this what I want?” P.S. There are seasons to life and there’s a season to put your head down and grind to get ahead. But seasons have an end—do it as a means to get to that end.
Why Remote Work is White Collar Fraud. "I have a three-year-old and a five-year-old. The idea that I could do any work at my house is like a total fantasy. The kids come home at 3pm, your work day needs to keep going. I'm highly against it." @typesfast
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10/10 explanation of the marginal revolution, subjective theory of value, the failure of Marxian economics, and free economies as the antidote to poverty. Followed.
Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans. Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable. Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale. Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné. Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut. À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol. Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée. Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit. Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie. Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle. Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère. Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision : "La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne) "La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek "Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.
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The reason I am an AI optimist is that the world is full of brilliant, driven, creative people Now these people - across science, medicine, technology, business and more - can create and iterate faster than ever before How could you not be hopeful?
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Jon Baker retweeted
One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.
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“Then I told the horse, ‘cars won’t replace ya, but horses who drive cars will!’”
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Every effort to reduce housing cost by subsidizing demand will result in increasing Home prices The only ways to make homes more affordable in the long run is to increase supply or reduce demand
BREAKING: The Trump administration is going to allow people to take money out of their 401(k)s and use that for a down payments, per Bloomberg
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AI workflows are technically impressive, but there’s a deeper reason people are really amped about AI agents. This isn’t just new tech, it’s new psychology. Until now, very few people have known what it feels like to delegate to total competency. If you manage great people, or lead great teams, you know how it feels to put someone in charge who will get it done, get it done right, and get it done without drama. That kind of delegation is pure joy. Delegating to competency lets you forget about it completely. That’s real leverage. And now anyone can experience that. Everyone can feel it. And it feels fucking great. That’s a big reason why the excitement is real, and fully justified.
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One of the biggest problems with our political system is that leaders equate spending with solving the problem. Once you realize this you see it everywhere. “We are committing to $20b in homeless funding” And 100 other variants. No talk of outcomes. Ever. It’s maddening.
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Taxing maids & bus drivers to deliver beer & bourbon to bums I don't write this lightly: *Truly* depraved
Concierge beer delivery service for the homeless in SF on the taxpayer dime I really really wish this was a joke but it is not
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If women having kids in their 20s, then starting work in their 30s becomes a real trend, some employers will generate enormous value for themselves by creating career on-ramps for them.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
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Big opportunity: We’re hiring a General Manager at Alpine Modern with a clear path to Director of Operations and beyond. I’ll be working side by side with this person to scale the brand. Interested? Shoot me a DM. Apply here → indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c0b807…
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