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Published podcast speaker
Books, apps, and tools
tool / built
“pretty much the first thing I built was just an RSS reader that takes all the Substacks and other newsletters and podcasts and a couple of other things. And pre-computes a summary for each one, actually kind of two levels of summary for each one.”
app / built
“So yeah, so I built one of the projects is called Mirror, by the way, only just now realizing that everything I've been talking to, you know, half the listeners will only be listening and not seeing.”
other / built
“I built a Chrome extension that clicks the five buttons for me and it saves me 15 seconds, three times a day. Took a couple minutes to write. It's awesome.”
app / likes
“This is the payload for the Twitter integration. So it's just a feed reader with just like a bunch of little details, like deduping, retweets, and other things, like just to make it, and like, it auto-expands, like instead of only showing the first 140 or 280 characters, it like auto-expands everything, so just like little fit and finish things that I prefer relative to the default behavior of the Twitter app.”
other / built
“I built a Chrome extension that clicks the five buttons for me and it saves me 15 seconds, three times a day.”
book / uses
“You know, I've read the Design Patterns book. I've read the manual, like the style guideline for React or whatever.”
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18 transcript-backed records
01 / recommendation
“You know, I've read the Design Patterns book. I've read the manual, like the style guideline for React or whatever.”
02 / recommendation
“This is the payload for the Twitter integration. So it's just a feed reader with just like a bunch of little details, like deduping, retweets, and other things, like just to make it, and like, it auto-expands, like instead of only showing the first 140 or 280 characters, it like auto-expands everything, so just like little fit and finish things that I prefer relative to the default behavior of the Twitter app.”
03 / recommendation
“I built a Chrome extension that clicks the five buttons for me and it saves me 15 seconds, three times a day.”
04 / recommendation
“And then, yeah, and so then you asked, like, am I mirroring data, right? So yeah, so I built one of the projects is called Mirror, by the way, only just now realizing that everything I've been talking to, you know, half the listeners will only be listening and not seeing.”
05 / uncertainty
“Like, everything-- I have no staging environment, everything-- like, whatever automated tests my exhortations have caused Claude to build, which I don't know. It says it has a lot of tests and it says it runs them, and I kind of believe it, but I just push to production all the time because I keep the stakes low on all this stuff.”
06 / commitment
“I don't want to have to build 50 features, so I have to come up with some conceptual framework for how I can get to the point where I just sort of say one or two sentences about each one to Claude, and Claude can figure out what to do with it in a way that I will trust that I'm still seeing the information I need to see, and I just haven't motivated to take a step back, and I probably need to dive in and fumble around and do it wrong the first time, and then eventually I'll settle in on a good way of doing that.”
07 / belief
“You can also just have sort of overeager bot problems. And I think probably part of it is the model developers and the tool developers are working, they're adding classifiers and whatever.”
08 / belief
“I would say that won't settle down for a long time, except, of course, actually it will never settle down because by the time it would, there will have been the five new inputs and we'll be in the next round of chaos.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don't know how much of this we want to go through, but it was just like, it's so easy to build tools.”
10 / preference
“I go out for a walk so I can be in a different headspace. And so what I've settled into that I really like is what I will do that's sort of work-ish while I'm out walking is I'll have some project I'm working on.”
11 / preference
“I don't like to use a tool unless I really know I can trust it and I understand what it's going to do. So that does feel like that's a pool I feel like it's going to be so worthwhile to jump into that I will eventually find myself forced to, but I haven't gone there yet.”
12 / prediction
“There are definitely systematic bad things that happen on the internet, and going back decades, I think the statistic was like, if you just took an unpatched installation of Microsoft Windows and connected it directly to the internet, it would be owned within five minutes or something, that goes way, way, way back.”
13 / preference
“generating all these summaries and stuff. And I'm really profligate, like I'm using Opus to generate these dumb little summaries and whatever, because like, why not?”
14 / evaluation
“not because that was the day that the, you know, the scaling curve crossed some threshold, but because that was the contingent moment when capabilities had gotten far enough and there was a little bit of an overhang and then someone happened to do something and they happened to do it in a way that caught people's attention.”
15 / evaluation
“So, yeah, being able to think outside the box, being comfortable navigating without a map, I think, is really important. And then, this I'm just guessing, is that communication skills are really important because, you know, one thing, I'm not, I don't know what it feels like to be doing, you know, professional production, running a software company today, 'cause I'm not doing that right now, but what I hear from the people who are is that, What used to be a team is now a person, and what used to be three teams is now three people.”
16 / recommendation
“I built a Chrome extension that clicks the five buttons for me and it saves me 15 seconds, three times a day. Took a couple minutes to write. It's awesome.”
17 / recommendation
“So yeah, so I built one of the projects is called Mirror, by the way, only just now realizing that everything I've been talking to, you know, half the listeners will only be listening and not seeing.”
18 / recommendation
“pretty much the first thing I built was just an RSS reader that takes all the Substacks and other newsletters and podcasts and a couple of other things. And pre-computes a summary for each one, actually kind of two levels of summary for each one.”