Too Cheap to Meter
A 125-billion-parameter model now runs on the computer under my desk at about 38 tokens a second. What it compares to, where it falls short, and the overnight work I want from it.…
The "Stick & Stamp" method
Ways to keep focus while "leaning in to async" ... A sticky note for the plan, a timestamped log for everything else, and arrows between them.…
MeePlus Slimpad Mini
Adding the Meeplus Slimpad Mini to my EDC…
Manga, graphic novels and Lovecraft, all in one
A library find: both volumes of Gou Tanabe’s manga adaptation of Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness…
Getting Claude to comply better
Adding a 'Riff' mode for true brainstorming with Claude…
My Life-Tools Upgrade Was Mostly Plumbing
I kept changing calendars and task managers. The useful change was connecting a few ordinary apps so I could work across them in conversation.…
Framework Desktop, out of the box
The screwdriver ships in the box. The RAM doesn't come out. A short walk through building the Framework Desktop, and what it said when I turned it on.…
Pointers, Not Answers
LLM output is a pointer to an answer, not the answer. Delegate the construction; keep the check. The real risk isn't the wrong answers. It's the right ones.…
Permanence Was an Accident
Why we kept source code for seventy years, and what agents just dissolved.…
Current Pens
Showing a comparison of a few different bands and how they write on a dotted A5 page of my Leuchtturm1917 notebook…
Git for Cognition
We consider an agent a few dozen turns deep, forked a hundred ways from one decision point. Which version-control verbs survive contact with a mind ... and which ones don't.…
The Turing Gradient
Whether AI 'passes' the Turing Test is the wrong question. The right one is which judges it passes for... and what that reveals about the rest of us.…