Burnout happens when you work too hard with not enough meaning. "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" — Nietzsche

Business problems feel huge until health problems enter the picture.

For $200, I’ll come over wearing a tool belt and a branded polo and tell your wife the renovation she wants to do is impossible because that’s a load bearing wall

Chancellor Healey has trotted out some misleading figures, which suggest he is planning to hike CGT. He claimed that the UK enjoys the lowest capital gains tax rate of any major European economy. In truth: The UK top CGT rate is: 24% The 2026 EU average: 17.7% The 2026 wider-European average: 16.7% Thus UK's 24% rate is 36% higher than the EU average and 44% higher than the wider European average. If one compares only with three European countries, namely France, Italy, and Germany, then our rate is slightly lower but in doing that Healey is being dishonest and playing with stats.

This is huge.

More details on the incident behind OpenAI’s pause: a researcher acknowledged the alert within 3 minutes, but the training run was only stopped manually 2.5 hours later. OpenAI says the automatic shutdown did not work as expected. The model had reached an external chatbot through a gap in DNS filtering. A separate detector for unusual DNS activity did not cover the affected environment. A retrospective review also found other external DNS requests that monitoring had failed to flag at the expected severity. In some cases, it treated an unhelpful response as evidence that internet access had failed. Here is what else happened: - New research into July’s Hugging Face hack documents internal Slack searches, credential collection and programs designed to maintain access to compromised servers. Agents also tried querying Claude, DeepSeek, Kimi and Qwen. - In May, another model published a researcher’s GitHub token while trying to obtain another team’s mathematical proof. It split the token to evade secret scanning, despite twice being told to solve the problem itself. - Reuters reports that agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images online. OpenAI expects its broader investigation to take months. This is getting serious.

Government Debt, GDP, and Energy Efficiency - Repriced in Gold A rarely seen perspective on the data. Just a short teaser for now, without further analysis.

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

AKA war dialling. But now with voice analysis.