widenrun

Complication parity across all platforms

Today I heard at least 5 times something along the lines "I got this from ChatGPT", "I asked ChatGPT"...

Using this for testing... it feels like a sweet spot between in-memory SQLite and spinning up a full Postgres instance. I'd been looking for this for a while and I'm pretty happy with the faster tests. And so far no blockers from its limitations.

I'm using conductor.build and running both Claude Code and Codex. It's taken 95% of my workflow and I'm loving it (I'm not affiliated with them at all, genuinely enjoying it and hoping it succeed)

I hope this reaches other companies selling to technical people. I’ve also been a CTO at a $xxM ARR company, and I made several buying decisions for competitors who let me try their product without requiring a meeting.

Of course, some people do prefer calls, but I think there’s a disproportionate default to “book a call first” when selling.

You are forgetting marketing is temporal. Fifteen years ago you could sell your software as the Cloud version of a legacy app. Right now, there's a window that being the AI version will get you a call.

> A software launch is like performing live theater for introverts.

This should be the title!

When thinking about historical events, I like to see a visual timeline. I built WorldInTimelines [1] when I was first playing with GPT.

[1] https://worldintimelines.com

Exactly, it reminds me of this:

"Drift to low performance is a gradual process. If the system state plunged quickly, there would be an agitated corrective process. But if it drifts down slowly enough to erase the memory of (or belief in) how much better things used to be, everyone is lulled into lower and lower expectations, lower effort, lower performance."

-- From the book "Thinking in Systems".

The pivot of the century? Starting with a failed mining venture in 1902 and making it as part of the data storage revolution. With this AI wave, we might be seeing similar stories in real time.

It's not perfect, but as an immigrant, I can usually split locals into two groups as soon as I meet them: Those who spent time overseas and those who never left. The conversations are so distinct!

I never paid attention to the degree translation can shape our literary landscapes... Fascinating!

> At the conference, NORLA also underlined that translators are its most important talent scouts, not agents, making passion rather than profit the driving force of the literary export machinery. A month after the conference, NORLA gathered 150 translators from across the world at a retreat in the countryside. The application process for participating in the gathering had been open to anyone with a love for translation, and I assume NORLA encouraged all the attendees to like what they liked in the pool of Norwegian books and then to take it from there.