I have started.the story.that was in.the icebox. and which.you were probably.saving.for a sprint. forgive me.it was delicious.so actionable.

It's funny that the r word has become taboo but people keep saying m*r*n. The r word was originally a euphemism for m*r*n. Make it make sense.

I've heard Mel Robbins's "5 Second Rule", which is that you should only take 5 seconds between a though and an action to avoid second guessing, etc. I'm adopting a modified version I like to call the "5 Day Rule".

There are natural languages where creaky voice (vocal fry) and breathy voice are contrastive (Mazatec has both). If I was making a conlang I would make creaky voice, breathy voice, and horny voice all be contrastive.

I would like to play a dnd campaign where I am a software engineer in a tech company so I can live out unrealistic power fantasies like "getting an executive to listen to me, once". You know, fantasy!.

apparently deadmau5 releases less than 1% of his songs, which is one thing we have in common.

Beetlejuice bootlegs continue to live in my head rent free every day.

hilarious that this tweet is still relevant.

Guess I'll just have to be stuck as one of the most senior engineers in any company.

I keep hearing that I don't have the "executive voice" needed to be promoted beyond principal engineer. I've seen the voice that executives have to use. No thank you.

this lives rent free in my head 24/7/365

Trust, verify, and also a secret third thing.

Modern beatboxing is 50% yodeling and 50% blowing raspberries and I love it.

what loser called it ancient egyptian burial practices and not a pyramid scheme.

One neat trick for better technical communication: do not use the words "better" or "worse". You know, like I just did. What I could have said is "more nuanced and informative". (You can ofc break this rule and still communicate effectively, but the learning is in the doing.).

trying to imagine something I want to watch less than a jordan peterson richard dawkins debate but apparently that happened.

a new frontier in pretending to care about diversity.

still thinking about it tbh.

twitter sucks, I hardly even post here, should I just go private? Y/n?.

every second you spend thinking about this is a second you spent thinking about this. just think about that. then stop thinking about it.

stop trying to understand it.