james, the giant peach

I know it’s 2026 and women are supposed to do what ever they want but the gym outfits are out of control. Some of these women literally wearing a bra and 3 inch compression shorts. It’s over revealing and it’s not dignified. And it’s honestly not even that attractive compared to tasteful cleavage. It feels like an over share that nobody asked for and it also normalizes a culture of immodesty. Leave it behind.

I pay $500 a month for health insurance. My deductible is $6,000. That means I pay $6,000 a year just to have insurance. Then $6,000 more before it actually kicks in. That’s $12,000 out of pocket before insurance saves me a single dollar. I am not insured. I am pre-bankrupted.

Hard to think of dumber vehicle

Finally visited the bench Christopher Alexander built at Fort Mason Center: it’s seen better days, but I’m seeing about getting it cleaned up :)

Christopher Alexander does this crazy thing. He asks you what you like. You tell him, and then he patiently explains that you’re wrong, you actually like what he likes. The funny thing is, he’s right. You don’t like what you like. You like the timeless way.

Christopher Alexander has an observation about problem solving that I like: you should always be focusing on solving the part that has the fewest degrees of freedom. When figuring out how to design a kitchen, for instance, there are a bunch of subproblems to solve: where to put the stove and the windows and the kitchen table. And which of these have the fewest degrees of freedom? The windows. If you want good light, there is going to be only one wall where you can place the windows, and at best two spots on that wall where the window looks natural. So you put the window there. And now what? The kitchen table, because you want to have that where the good light falls. The stove can wait because that can sit nearly anywhere. If you start by placing the stove, there is a big risk that you block the only good position for one of the other subproblems that have fewer degrees of freedom, and so the whole design will suffer.

I want to build a structural masonry and timber frame data center

The singular reason data centers get so much pushback is because the buildings they are in aren’t beautiful If you put all future data center builds in cathedral-esque structures I bet you could build a lot more of them

5 of 10 teams at demo day broke $10M annualized HF0 is not just for early stage companies Interviews started yesterday.

The number of presidential homes we’ve worked on is now a nonzero number.