Category: Here’s What I Found Today

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Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into a variety of fascinating topics. I’m unpacking why aligning our work with our values can be tough, and exploring how AI is revolutionizing creative writing. I also share a handy guide on picking the best AI models, reveal insights from a groundbreaking discovery in data science, and much more. Come explore these intriguing subjects with me!

• Why it’s so hard to align our work with our values, and how we justify not trying.: How compartmentalization is encouraged by sloppy logic like the “earning to give” mentality sustained by capitalistic false binaries and the perception of scarcity.
• ChatGPT firm reveals AI model that is ‘good at creative writing’: As tech firms battle creative industries over copyright, OpenAI chief Sam Altman says he was ‘really struck’ by product’s output
• An Opinionated Guide on Which AI Model to Use in 2025: A practical guide to choosing between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity
• The 2025 Product Strategy Playbook: Product strategy has changed – and if you’re using an outdated playbook, you’ll be missing out. Here’s how to build your product strategy in the AI age
• Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table: A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
• Archival Storage: I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school’s Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with…
• Open-Source Handwritten Signature Detection Model: A Blog post by Samuel Lima Braz on Hugging Face
• TxAgent: An AI agent for therapeutic reasoning across a universe of tools: Project page of TxAgent
• Prompt Engineering Guide for Deep Research with ChatGPT’s O3-Model:
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Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into some cool tech finds, including a fascinating paper on using multilingual transformers for speaker identification. I also introduce docs, a nifty open-source platform that could be your next favorite tool for note-taking and documentation, especially if you’re looking for alternatives to Notion or Outline. Check out these links for some great insights and resources!

• Whisper Speaker Identification: Leveraging Pre-Trained Multilingual Transformers for Robust Speaker Embeddings:
• docs: A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline. – suitenumerique/

In my latest blog post, I dive into various topics, including how I use Large Language Models to write code despite others’ struggles. I reflect on changes in how American students get to school, and explore Briar’s secure messaging for journalists. Plus, I discuss career insights, the essence of Kanban, and tips for spotting 2025 March Madness upsets. It’s an exciting mix!

• Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code: Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …
• The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment: Your grandpa probably really did walk 5 miles to school in a foot of snow. A look at the changing numbers for how American students get to school.
• How it works: Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging apps, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the Internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or memory cards, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance.
• Career advice in 2025.: Yesterday, the tj-actions repository, a popular tool used with Github Actions was compromised (for more background read one of these two articles). Watching the infrastructure and security engineering teams at Carta respond, it highlighted to me just how much LLMs can’t meaningfully replace many essential roles of software professionals. However, I’m also reading Jennifer Palkha’s Recoding America, which makes an important point: decision-makers can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. (Or, in this context, remain employed.)
• Milk Kanban: Original meaning of Kanban is that it’s a visual signal. We tend to think about Kanban in terms of boards, columns, index cards, etc. However, in principle, none of that is needed to design a Kanban system.
• How to spot 2025 March Madness upsets before they bust your bracket: These key stats can tell you who fits Cinderella’s slipper for the Big Dance.

In my latest blog post, I dive into some fascinating reads and resources. I explore Charity Majors’ take on debunking the “10x engineer” myth, delve into statistical formulas for programmers, and revisit the importance of logarithms. I also ponder whether copywriting is a lost art, discuss simplifying fulfillment services, and share lessons from a transformative writing teacher. There’s something here for everyone!

• IEEE Spectrum: Charity Majors of Honeycomb.io debunks the “10x engineer” myth, emphasizing team productivity and building inclusive, high-performing engineering teams.
• Statistical Formulas For Programmers:
• The Lost Art of Logarithms: A book about the history, use, and importance of logarithms
• Is copywriting a lost art?: The latest publishing news, jobs, analysis, comment, interviews and in-depth features about UK newspaper, magazine and online publishers.
• Changing fulfillment vendors? Consider radical simplification: Fulfillment services for publishers can get very complicated. Do they need to be? Maybe radical simplification is the right choice.
• What I learned from the writing teacher who changed my work forever: A reflection on Donald Murray’s timeless lessons — on the writing process and problems all writers must solve — as Poynter turns 50

I just stumbled upon a great read about plyometric exercises and how they can boost our power, balance, and coordination as we age. It’s all about staying vibrant and maintaining physical health with some explosive workouts. If you’re curious about where to begin with plyometrics, this is definitely worth a look!

• These Explosive Exercises Can Help You Age Well: Plyometrics are an effective way to improve power, balance and coordination. Here’s where to start.

In my latest blog post, I dive into a range of fascinating topics! From AI tools like Composer and evolving agents to tips on understanding technical architecture with AI. I also share insights on productivity hacks, like how 15-, 30-, and 60-minute breaks can boost work efficiency, and even a trick from Google’s productivity expert. Plus, there’s a natural alternative to Ozempic. Curious? Let’s chat about it!

• Composer: Unified AI interface that combines Ask, Edit, and Agent modes to help write, edit, and understand code directly in your editor
• evolving-agents: Evolving agents is a production-grade environment for orchestrating, evolving, and managing AI agents – matiasmolinas/
• How to understand technical architecture with AI: 🧠Knowledge Series #63: A guide for PMs, designers and non-engineers. Practical ways to get up to speed with technical architecture – quickly.
• Building an Agentic System:
• Natural alternative to Ozempic brings results without side effects: After screening 20,000 protein-encoding genes in the human body, Stanford researchers have identified a naturally occurring molecule that works like semaglutide, most popularly known as Ozempic, to put the brakes on appetite and weight gain.
• What to do on 15-, 30-, and 60-minute breaks to boost productivity: If you aren’t taking regular breaks or don’t feel refreshed and focused after taking a break, you might be doing it wrong.
• Google’s productivity expert: The 5-minute hack that helps me focus and get more done at work: Laura Mae Martin is Google’s executive productivity advisor. She helps employees and C-suite leaders at the tech giant get more done without burning out.
• Motivating Personal Growth by Seeking Discomfort: Achieving personal growth often requires experiencing discomfort. What if instead of tolerating discomfort (e.g., feeling awkward or uncomfortable), people acti…
• qwen2.5-coder:32b: The latest series of Code-Specific Qwen models, with significant improvements in code generation, code reasoning, and code fixing.
• qwq: QwQ is the reasoning model of the Qwen series.
• On Apple Exclaves: Modern operating systems typically divide their operations into two main protection domains: the unprivileged domain (user mode) and the privileged domain (kernel mode). Software spends most of its…
• US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms: Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
• 15 Ways To Encourage Creative Idea Sharing From All Team Members: Host creative brainstorming sessions to encourage everyone on your team to share ideas.
• How to Empower Your Teammates to Speak Up More Often: These steps will help you encourage others to voice their opinions and concerns.
• 14 Ways Introverts Can Get More Confident Sharing Their Ideas At Work: Have you ever been in a meeting or read a memo at work and realized that you have the perfect solution to the problem being discussed or an idea you’re sure everyone will love, but then choked and weren’t able to express it?

Hey there! In my latest blog post, I’m diving into really fascinating territory. We’ll explore taking control of our media consumption, with a call to “kill your feeds,” plus my personal 16-month experiment with theanine! Also, discover how social comparison might secretly boost success and learn some tricks to break and form habits effectively. Plus, I chat about impactful reputation strategies and the future of AI in media. 📚✨

• Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think:
• My 16-month theanine self-experiment: randomized and blinded, N=1
• The Hidden Power of Social Comparison: We’ve been told social comparison is toxic, but what if it’s secretly fueling our success? Discover how to harness envy for motivation, growth, and lasting achievement.
• Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a philosopher shares 3 strategies to help you attain the good life: A shift in mindset as you go through your day-to-day can help you cultivate a psychologically rich life.
• To Change a Habit, Get Extreme. Progressively.: Starting a new habit is very different from breaking an existing one. If you want to give something up, try this advice.
• Succinct data structures: An overview of a class of data structures I didn’t know about!
• 5 Ways media companies can boost audience trust when using AI: While AI offers substantial benefits, recent studies have revealed a trust gap between media companies and their audiences around AI use.
• WatchTime Selects Creative Licensing International to Expand Globally; Creating New Formats, Audiences: As AI-powered search upends the digital landscape, publishers grapple with declining traffic, legal battles, the erosion of interest, and the decline of curiosity. by: Paul Gerbino The evolution of search engine technology, specifically the shift from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), signifies a fundamental disruption in the online publishing ecosystem. The […]
• Former Independent editor says AI will free up reporters to create more ‘guff’: Chris Blackhurst said “guff” would fill the void left as journalism’s business model collapsed.
• The Digital Packrat Manifesto: DRM and big tech’s war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
• The Autodidacts: Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it. Troubleshooting is often learned tacitly, in the process of explicitly learning “the skill”. Troubleshooting is rarely discussed
• The Meeting Manifesto:
• The Post-Performance Review Guide No One Talks About, Part 1: Experienced Engineering leader and International speaker, Allison McMillan, helps companies with gathering design and facilitation to navigate transitions, as a Fractional VP of Engineering or CTO, or providing 1:1 advising and mentorship support. Read more about her thoughts on engineering leadership, conference talks, and services offered.
• Chasing Squirrels: Avoiding Strategy Drift: “Can we go for a walk? I think we have a huge opportunity to offer SaaS tools to participants of our marketplace instead of monetizing customers.” – Representative quote from a founder I work with evaluating a change in strategy Building a new company, I find myself faced with opportunities to revisit and modify Beacon’s […]
• Advanced Stats 101:: Going to school on what the advanced stats mean
• The Reputational Cue Ball: Most people understand reputation matters, but few recognize how it functions as a strategic asset that either unlocks opportunities or leaves you perpetually trapped in impossible situations. The mechanics of this process mirror an unlikely source of wisdom: the game of billiards.

Hey there! In my latest blog post, I dive into the wild world of ‘age verification’ bills, which aren’t just targeting porn anymore but now even things like skin cream! I reminisce about when these laws were supposedly all about protecting kids, but I’ve always warned about their risks and questionable efficacy. Curious about why they might not be the solution? Check it out!

• First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control: I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to…