If you get far enough in your career and have a few successes and build even a modest network, people will actually pay you to hang out with their team, provide guidance, and just be yourself. It’s wild.
Good recent Lex Fridman ep with Nathan Lambert and Dylan Patel. You can ambiently catch up with what’s happening in the AI race, from chips to data centers to national security to reasoning models.
Not normally a “Lex guy” but these were interesting guests with great depth.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000688396667
Yesterday I ran Ethernet (through an underground conduit and some walls), crimped it, and installed jacks all for the first time.
Networking feels just a little faster when you hand arranged each little wire.
TIL folk etymologies. I always link the herb mint with the verb mint—like you’re creating a minty fresh coin. But they actually come from different Latin roots. The herb comes from mentha, while the verb comes from moneta, as in Juno Moneta, where coins were minted.
In 2036, members of the slow computing movement will rediscover this lost art, crafting organic brain-to-screen user manuals by sifting through layer upon layer of code and community lore, and then manually and painstakingly typing each letter one at a time.
Highlights of first experience in tech the summer before college:
- macromedia authorware. devs nicknamed it awfulware.
- there was a slide in the office. my wallet chain got caught on it.
- localized printed user manuals. output as .ps files. burned cds to mail to printer
- paid internship. $9/hr. still higher than today’s national min wage.
