"Mastery is not a pursuit of perfection, but of self-knowledge, including your flaws and limitations. It's essential to feel clumsy or incompetent at times -- and to smile at yourself when you do. You surrender what you 'know' so you may learn something new." -Terry Laughlin

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TigerBeetle and Synadia's $512K USD donation to the ZSF is great news for the @ziglang community. A nice write-up on the reasoning for financially supporting Zig as a F/OSS project is below.

"I went in expecting another cyber-thriller. What I got was something deeper. Monroe doesn’t just write about AI he writes about grief, loyalty, and identity. Ellena’s struggle feels real, raw, and painful. Her partnership with Kelvin Kincaid is one of the most genuine dynamics

The best product builders are relentless product users. Taste comes from opening apps, stumbling through onboarding flows, hitting walls, and feeling the difference between smooth and clunky. Chefs don’t learn taste from recipes. They taste food until they can tell what’s

“Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign.” Paul Graham on coming up with organic startup ideas:

Anthropic are massively burying the lede here - they've called this "Upgraded file creation and analysis" (that really does seem to be the official name) but it's actually.... Claude Code Interpreter! It's sandboxed server-side Python/Node.js code execution for Claude

Cant wait to read this on my way to my next road trip. @lecternleader

"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -James Baldwin

Read it. It is well worth it: https://t.co/Q4eQi9qEQw I met Andrew Kelley at a SYCL conference a few years back, and I believe he really is as earnest as he comes off here in this essay. This is someone who cares about doing his best and it has rubbed off on the Zig community.

A lovely post by the creator of the Zig programming language on what it feels like to be 10 years into running a successful open source project, and still feel the stress of not being able to please 100% of your users.

"My friend -- it's not personal. I care about you. I actually do value your opinion. I'm interested in your thoughts and feelings. I want to make you happy. I'm sad that I can't serve you better with my open source project. I want to. I wish I could."

🔺NEWS: The White House press access rule now requires journalists to book appointments to see the @PressSec — citing national security.

I like the quote of mine they picked for this podcast prompt: "I think having a blog is actually one of the most influential things that you can do in modern society because nobody else does it anymore."

Every founder you admire has quietly survived moments that would make most people quit. There’s no playbook for sleepless nights, hiring mistakes, or explaining to your family why you missed another weekend. It looks like freedom, but most days you answer to your own ambition,

Zoom: founder knew the space cold, did the same thing a second time Slack: founders didn't know business software, starting it as a gaming company There are multiple ways to success Just keep going Don't quit Hire great people Don't run out of money

Distrust is on the rise everywhere. Here’s a view from the UK: https://t.co/L9PG7UKFHa I suspect Covid-19 & the internet have been the main accelerants. Hypernormalization & distrust are global — and here to stay. But never give up your individual autonomy & free speech.

Is distrust warranted? Probably. But it can also curdle into misanthropy and cynicism. The worst among us will reject all idealism outright. When citizens rise to protest, many will accuse them of being a false flag. They’ll lob cheap shots from the cheap seats.

“Cast a vote, but don’t join a cult. They are not your tribe. They are not your personality. They have their own interests, their own values, their own things they are chasing. Try to get what you need from them. But don’t give yourself over to them. Even if you have to vote for

AI can run your YouTube channel now. I asked FlowithOS to take over my YouTube, make crazy AI pet video, upload. And it generated the clip, title/desc then posted. Content creation will never be the same. Comment/DM for invite code.

The era of hypernormalization also led to a pervasive sense of distrust. When I first published my thoughts on the internet, I distrusted the government and I trusted experts. Now, the public distrusts basically everyone — the government, the media, experts, fellow citizens.

Hypernormalization is a term that refers to a strange feeling that every institution is failing, yet life goes on. This is how I felt after 9/11 and the Great Financial Crisis. It’s also how I feel now. Idealism was needed then. And it’s needed now. https://t.co/w9MMCFPi0j

This does lead to one tension that has to be resolved. How to handle the people who use their individual freedom and free speech rights to try to SUPPRESS the individual freedom and free speech rights of others? The answer, here, is pretty clear, to me. That’s out of line, too.

And I feel strongly about the converse, as well. Which is that the best of our politicians, our government agency heads, our corporate executives, they try to encourage individual freedom and encourage free speech. That means encouraging those around you to speak out their mind.

The way I see it, these rights are fundamental. Whether you’re a politician, a government agency head, a corporate executive, a wealthy bigwig, or just any old fellow citizen, if you try to suppress my individual freedom and my free speech, you are out of line.