Kalin Ringkvist

Kalin's Twitter Code of Conduct: I want my personal brand to be about kindness, empathy, healthy communication, and building a better world through technology and science. My ultimate reason for being on Twitter is to promote Custom Data Organizer at customd.app, and to get started as an entrepreneur. But my values come first. I will... treat everyone with respect and compassion regardless of how wrong or harmful they may be. craft tweets to genuinely communicate, not to elicit guilt, shame or other negative emotions. only engage in honest, good faith arguments. be open to changing my mind based on new information, and admitting my mistakes. not engage in saracasm or other language designed to hurt rather than communicate. remember that it's often the best choice to ignore angry people until they calm down. prioritize my own behavior and personal growth over winning arguments. keep this account safe for work. not discuss but also will not deny my not safe for work side. not tweet while angry. only post content if I believe it will add value for someone. do my best to support the community.

I tried my hand at writing some comedy and I think I did okay, if you are familiar with software development or engineering

I just published Being Cranky Worried About AI Taking Over The World medium.com/p/being-cranky… another rambling freewrite about AI and mental health and some other crap.

@elonmusknews30 AAAAAAAAAAA

@rasmalai UHF

@benonwine Criminal justice

If all humans suddenly lost the ability to lie, what industry would collapse first? 🤔

@Scobleizer I've seen the way humans drive so I would trust a Commodore 64 over most of them.

Trust is a funny thing. When I interview Waymo customers they say they absolutely would trust a humanoid robot from that company, which spun out of Google. At a far higher rate than if I ask that question of someone who has never been in an autonomous vehicle. Why? Well within three rides they learn to trust it driving them at 80 mph next to a wall with killing them. This is what AI experts like @ErrkC miss and why you must actually do customer interviews if you want to understand the future. It is why my eight books about the future were so on point. And why those who own a Tesla with self driving see the future so much clearer. Tesla is way ahead of any other robot company on trust. Which you all will understand next year when Robotaxi starts. It is the autonomous car companies that will have everyone’s trust in 2027 when humanoid robots arrive at scale. Same in China. Plus they have a way to move them around the neighborhood. Humans who get a ride in a robot change. They learn to trust AI in a whole new way that is much more profound than watching it pick up a couple of wine glasses.

@Theonenameddamn Journaling and/or sex

@amooh001 Getting arrested

Drop the wildest answer 👇🔥

@Matt_Pinner Tool

Who are You listening to? 🎶

@Matt_Pinner Blindly assume it's fake

As the man of the house, what’s your next move?

@Kabetes0 All of it

@ohhanxiety Prioritize long-term stress management over everything else, but never hiding or running from it. Also vegetables and sleep.

any secret?

@theamelia__ Never smoke tobacco

@engineers_feed I built my own personal organizer app because what I needed didn't exist. customd.app I use it every day to track all sorts of things

What’s an extremely useful app most people probably don’t know about?

I finally have some time to work on promoting CustomD.app tonight but I just don't know what to do. I need to find test users, or someone who knows marketing or business who can help with getting this app off the ground. Do I just keep sending off more rambling tweets about data and life management? Do I make more videos of me using the app? If so, how do I get anyone to watch or care? I need a more focused strategy, but I have zero marketing knowledge. Anyone have any ideas?

I just launched CustomD.app on Prouduct Hunt. Maybe that'll be a better network for me. I've spent 20 years focused on just coding and now I need to learn to market my product. It feels like I'm starting over. Gonna experiment until something sticks like I do with everything else in life. #buildinpublic producthunt.com/posts/custom-d…

I thought today that I should start keeping a simple health journal in CustomD.app. I already use my app (among many other things) to record every time I take an ibuprofen or any other drug. I also use it as a personal micro journal, and a separate work journal that I use to remember what I need to talk about in status meetings. I originally wanted to build a health dashboard where I'd track my bedtime, exercise time, mood etc. I still think that type of dashboard could really help some people so I need to go back and build it at some point. But for me, I think I want something a little more free-form, where every time I have any kind of health-related event, I open my app and have the entry system open in two taps and can select from my own custom list of event types and then add custom notes with zero extra steps. I really feel like the ability to track and visualize your own personal data regarding your goals is a major key to succeeding at those goals. But we are all so unique. We need our own way of tracking these things. We need to be able to experiment with different methodologies. That's why unlike other health or diet management systems, I made Custom Data Organizer to be fundamentally customizable from the very beginning. #buildinginpublic

The first thing I ever built when I was first starting out in software was a disc golf tracking system. I used Visual Basic and Microsoft Access. You would enter all your discs into the system and then whenever you had a particularly good shot or bad one, you would write it down... then--this was before cell phones--so I don't know, you'd go home and get on your computer and copy the info from your notepad, so you could track and chart which discs were scoring well and which weren't. I never got to the point of actually doing anything with it. I soon realized no one would ever use it, but it did give me some experience and got me thinking about data management. I mean, you can't have a different tracking app for every different hobby out there... or I guess you can, but why not have one system that is inherently customizable to its very core that can be adapted to manage any type of hobby? ...and any kind of unique perspective on that hobby. That's why I built CustomD.app. What kind of weird, oddball thing do you want to keep track of? Let me know and maybe I can whip up a system for you. No cost. No obligation. I just want to get my app in front of some test users. #buildinpublic

My buddy's kid turned 16 recently, got his license, bought a car on Craigslist. The car came with a notebook. The owner had recorded every bit of maintenance, every oil change, even every gas fill-up, complete with mileage, gallons, and prices. And I thought, this is the type of person I built CustomD.app for. My dad did this kind of thing when I was a kid. Kept logs, calculated gas mileage, route times into town, and logged every detail of his bicycle trips. He is sort of what inspired this thing I built. In traditional app design, you can't make something that meets the specific needs of these types of folks, since they are each trying to record things in their own unique way. Until now they've been stuck with pen and paper or a cold, boring, and impersonal spreadsheet. I need to find these people and show them how much quicker, easier, more shareable, and automated it can be with my app. #buildinpublic