Finished Blindsight, moving on to book 2 of Silo Waiting for prime days before ordering Echopraxia

Watched Backrooms last night Infinitely better than I expected

I wrote 4 essays this month: one each on AI agents, group chats, community software & social media algorithms Here are some reflections on the mini series -It's always fun hitting publish because new essays act as permission for people to reach out to you, and every time I posted an essay ~5-6 new people hit me up to chat -There was die off in engagement over the month as the novelty of the series wore off (makes sense tbh, even I was getting tired of my own writing) -Tech and what it means to be human feels like a squishy topic, but I liked doing personal essays on this stuff and will probably do more in a similar spirit -Trying to come up with something concrete to say that's fresh every week is more difficult than I thought, but it's a great forcing function to clarify your thoughts + do the work on a topic -I think there's a spectrum between writing something original vs. writing something that's mostly interpreting the current thing through personal experience... and I've realized maybe 20% of my writing has something new to say vs. 80% is mostly inviting you into my worldview -I like the spectacle of seasonal bursts of writing on a theme & I'll probably do surges of writing like this again in the future -800 words seems to be a good length and more people got through these posts than my past essays -2x per month (instead of weekly) feels more reasonable going forward, both for my own creative pace and so I don't clutter people's inboxes >Thank you + shoutout to everyone who read any of the essays! They're all in my highlights tab as well if you missed them and want to skim 👽

Crypto portfolio green but then I realized it's from all my locked base:0x940181a94a35a4569e4529a3cdfb74e38fd98631

Found an old iPhone 14 Pro Another Apple Gift Card getting added to the MacBook Pro Fund

Today’s to do list: Write a Recco review Read Blindsight by Peter Watts by the pool Propagate more plants 🪴 Watch Thursday Night Football

When your review website sends you extra coffee so you gift coffee to your friend that owns a wine shop and get a bottle for free

It's possible we each end up with personal AI agents that interpret the various feeds for us and serve us content how we want to see it (which could be cool) But it seems more likely to me that each ecosystem locks things down which would block full interoperability on this front e.g. see Amazon blocking Meta's Muse agent, then extrapolate that out to the big social media companies blocking each other So I don't know, but my current vibe check is I think feeds (and humans scrolling them) will last for a while longer, which is why they're important to get right

New post on social media algorithms (and how to fix them)

Tired of getting charged for my checking account from Chase for my LLC Opened a Mercury account while drinking my champagne instead

Was raining post massage and the wine shop was closer than home Posted up with champagne and the laptop till they close I think

Three green days in a row might have been too much to ask for

Outbound soap requests for Recco at an all time high ~ 2 hours till reset and still have usage to go Massage @ noon, then making a dent in Peter Watts Blindsight so I can get back to reading Silo

I am a fan of yellow

Yes please

Should I be looking at houses in Nashville?

i thought about building a personal website for paid 1:1 sessions, but realized @calcom description section allows links so just did it this way simple and easy. been getting enough inbounds to extend my runway quite a bit with 1:1s, @XCreators payout, and MRR from my apps. build, post, chat.

Day before @grok resets and I got usage to work through Big outreach day for Recco ahead

Wen $HOOD to 150+

Seeing lots of $GRAB news on the TL What’s the bull case here? Or just an open door esque money trap?