> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.bramadams.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # July 19 - July 31 2026 - URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/july-19-july-31-2026/ - Published: 2026-08-20T17:17:42.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-20T17:18:17.000Z - Description: Field Notes ID - Author: Bram Adams - Tags: commonplace book The power of personal printouts is under utilized --- You took no risks, you got no rewards --- *Death of the* [*Scenius*](https://austinkleon.com/2017/05/12/scenius/?ref=bramadams.dev) *Artist*: A creator is left to fend for themselves on a faceless ToS platform of strangers, hostile or friendly, depending on a undisclosed set of factors. The audience uses the only mode available to them to reach you. (The mode is more Internet.) Both producer and consumer launch content offensives at each other. --- What would a Personal Library toy look like? How would it be played with? - Remarkable - While encrypted - (Physical + Digital) Object >= Physical Object > Digital Object --- No useless action, no useful thought --- What is the US tolerance for on shore manufacturing? What are the limits of NIBYism? --- NYC is a real place. NYC is (also) just an idea --- Do no harm, but my death should mean nothing to you, either --- I want to be responsible for a statistically significant increase in the amount of systems readers --- The floor is profit --- Contacts to Contracts --- How many reading system skills exist? Mechanically: finite amount, but more than currently practiced/known. Software increased the space (databases, internet, e-ink, etc.) --- You found me at a very workshop time in my life --- Her eyes bear no ill will, and appreciate any love they receive --- I want to become more effective **and** more eclectic. At the same time --- Born naked, married in a suit, buried in a suit. The suit increases the celebration of daily life. --- The suit is a cultural object --- Water and shit will both roll downhill --- The people yearn for an ontology --- A list is not shorter than a paragraph - List - Not Shorter - Paragraph --- LLMs will make up a confidence score from thin air --- To prevent LLM drift on sensitive data, use a third party ID system (the model interacts with classes of IDs instead of specific data) to keep the variables from becoming, variable. Tool calls only accept IDs --- Org trees as a company spell check --- A probability machine will introduce entropy faster than a deterministic one --- Ink can only spill, a BIC pen vs the BP ocean is a matter of degree --- Does paper have a sixth sense of what will be written on it?