humor
Stonin' is Satisfying, but it don't bring you pleasure
Yeah, stuntin' stonin', it's satisfyin' but it don't bring you closure...
Bram Adams
writer, programmer
music
Does Fame Make You Special?
Saw Cara Delevingne and Sarah Snyder and now i don't think famous people are all that special -- they just seemed kinda… boring tbh -- and they both dated Jaden Smith, was it for clout or did they genuinely like the guy, I wonder?[1] On the other hand, I
music
Images That Could Be Album Covers
Interesting how album covers all feel a similar amount of surreal. Album covers memorable dissonance in the mind -- a visual appetizer for the album's contents[1] (or just edgy for the sake of being edgy,[2] musicians do like to do that 202301210133) pic.twitter.com/B1yMQP5XRa — Images
programming
No OpenAI API Key Provided Error
Check for load_dotenv() being called for python-dotenv openai.error.AuthenticationError: No API key provided. You can set your API key in code using 'openai.api_key = <API-KEY>', or you can set the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY=<API-KEY>). If your
ai
Why Birds of A Feather? (WIP)
Birds of a Feather Rock, Paper, Shears. No, thats not right… Rock, Post-It, Scissors. Hmm, that's not it either… But what if it could be? The Burden of the Creative Expert Creating is a process of conjecture and testing. Conjecture is expansion -- the words on paper, the
technology
Meta Employees Embarrassed by Tech
frustrating to hear from people inside Meta who found the Quest 2 headsets so unreliable that they refused to use them for work or demo them for people outside the company. (View Highlight) I'm optimistic that Reality Labs will create something worth using eventually, but I find it
music
RIP Mainstream Rock
how it looks with everyone fighting for when we were young presale tickets https://t.co/wLMi4P8WkJ (View Tweet) It's crazy to me that the late 2000s was the last time rock was popular (read: mainstream) and this is what history will remember us as. Emo, scene kids
content-creation
The Everlasting Grind of Content Creation
YouTube The YouTube subscription page is a chronologically weighted page, favoring channels that post consistently and "1000 true fan" type subscribers. 202212160135 The home page uses a recommendation algorithm based on CTR and watch time. These two -- on the surface -- don't conflict with each other. But
obsidian
Can Atomic Ideas Grow On Their Own?
PKM zealots assume that the act of note-taking will create emergent properties by making singleton notes. But how does one prove this? Is note-taking worth the effort? Some potential ideas to test: * What is the half-life of any particular note? Meaning, when do the contents of a
music
Shivering at Ultra Thoughts
* Ultra is overpriced[1] and has too many loud, conflicting noises * The dynamics between chill and drops in a single song look like they catch audience members off guard every time * Sponsored by Algorand (weird flex but ok -- why do crypto foundations feel the need to burn cash on parties?
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Komugi Pieta
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content-creation
The Output of a Knowledge Worker is Process
Some types of work result in physical artifacts being produced -- farming produces food, chemistry produces chemical compounds. But what is the output of a knowledge worker? What is the output of a writer, a programmer, or an analyst?[1] There are physical artifacts left behind from these professions -- symbols on