My kids are obsessed with Pokemon, it’s great! 150 only though. ↳
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I used to teach English at an alternative school in Florida. I had just read "Into Thin Air" so I had my high school students read it & write a 5-page footnoted research paper on the disastrous climb, using multiple online sources as well as the book itself. Most of the time, it was a struggle getting these kids to read anything more sophisticated than Dr Seuss, but this story fully engaged them. They surprised themselves with the quality of their work. You could say the challenge was a kind of Everest for them, but they reached the summit. Thank you, Mr Krakauer.
I'd love to know how many engineers and PMs work on Screen Time as it seems very very very buggy (and limited!)↳
John Gruber writes a lot of good stuff but his "claim chowder" stuff drives me crazy — he loves extolling how he is right and others were wrong. I am sure he conveniently omits any times he is wrong. ↳
LEGO City has some bangers releasing in the next few months:
- Automatic Car Wash
- Lava Land Amusement Park
- Port Freight Train
Where are the City Smart Brick sets though?↳
I wonder if SpaceX ends up with a huge compute advantage over OpenAI/Anthropic because they all have similar gross sums of compute, but xAI probably has an order of magnitude less demand than the other two, allowing them to allocate significantly more compute to training.↳
This evening my 5 year old asked if the President was "McDonald Trump" ↳
In the April 2026 Peak to Peak board meeting they mentioned getting 1594 applications for 200 spots, across Kinder and Sixth grade. ↳
yoga is the best↳
Anthropic understandably decided to block Openclaw from having oAuth access and I wanted to use Anthropic Extra Usage but it cost me $25 in credits in 1 day, so alas, using Anthropic for OpenClaw is a no go.
I bought the $20/month OpenAI plan and connected that to OpenClaw. We'll see. It took many hours to get things working again, but not really the fault of OpenAI but how buggy OpenClaw is...
It really makes you wonder how much OpenClaw blew up the Anthropic business model in the past 6 months. If there is 100k users using Anthropic oAuth on OpenClaw and its $15/day in costs... thats a huge hit on their margin!↳
I wish there was a script that would apply cooldowns to all relevant package managers.↳
wow the frozen griddle cakes from Trader Joe’s are amazing ↳
I wonder if medium.com authors are aware that 90% of the content now requires that you signup/login — and when you do signup, it doesn't even redirect you back to the article you were viewing! crazy.↳
the TJs chocolate bars with cornflakes are incredible ↳
I was thinking: I wish there was a yoga equivalent for feelings, but maybe that is therapy? ↳
"Honestly u get a 10/10 for today"
— friend after hanging out with me and my kids after we made a "candy inspector" booth for a labour day parade.↳
I have been reading this book called Radical Acceptance and I am finding it to be very impactful.
I would go as far to say I am finding it to be shockingly impactful for me.
The book is about the notion that it is okay to not be okay. That when things feel difficult or painful, actually the best thing to do is not to try and fix it but to simply sit in that feeling and absorb it.
It also teaches you to take a "pause" when things seem particularly difficult. For me, I have an impulse to say "everything is fine" when I am struggling. I want to start taking a pause before I answer so I can be more mindful with how I reply.↳
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change
— Carl Rogers↳
Managed to create an entire morning plan at Legoland so that we waited in 1 queue for the boats, and then really efficiently — without rushing! — did basically all the small kid rides at Legoland, skipping all queues.
My kids are living the dream today and I’m left wishing I had someone that could see and appreciate me working so hard to give my kids a great day.
Obviously it would be even nicer to collaborate with someone on all this, but I hope I can find someone that at least finds it (very) desirable in a partner since I increasingly feel this is something I am quite good at. ↳