Chris Alvarez

Basically the experience of interacting with US healthcare specialists. Your results are on MyChart. We'll message you on Spruce. Just log into MyPatientPortal. It's right there on FollowMyHealth. Just create an account on myEHR.

speed is a feature because it changes how a tool is used. a pencil that can only draw one line a day with isn’t really a sketching tool. sketching itself is characterized by speed of the execution, not just the output

This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture). BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image. So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!

Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen. Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore. Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?" AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.

I think I'm at a breaking point with LLM text. ChatGPT's language has become the worst. I have full on AI fatigue. The honest truth Why this fixes it (short answer) Clean fix The safest bet Final honest take Best-case scenario (totally possible) My straight recommendation Bottom line (no sugarcoating) If you want, tell me […] and I’ll tell you what I’d personally do in your exact situation (not generic advice) Instead of asking “[…]”, think: 👉 “How do I maximize […]?” My honest recommendation (based on what you said) Let me be real with you upfront Here’s the pro move That’s actually a really good question—let’s sharpen it so it actually makes sense. Still real. Not peak performance That’s not just […]. That's […] I wrote the first 3 myself, but then I went to a chat and just kept copying more examples. People don't write like this. Are we doomed to have to read the same poor sentence structure and wording for the rest of our lives? It's even worse when I have to read other people's llm slop. Thank you, I can prompt an llm myself. Do I have to pay a person to operate the llm for me and write back slowly in human language?

A dangerous pattern for companies today is assuming signing up for a bunch of AI tools is a strategy. Every company needs to map out exactly what problems need to be solved and determine what products exist today & where custom agents need to be built.

new concept we are exploring for Superlocal: Map Apps. data overlays you can enable to learn more about the world around you. just built one called "Golden Hour." it tells you when sunset is, which direction to look, and predicts how likely it is to be a great sunset tonight.

It’s a bit funny. This essay misses the relational element of creating with others. 2000 words and zero thoughts about trust, relationships, humanity, and soul. I know I’m in constant danger as a middle manager. If all I’m doing is passing info back and forth, I don’t belong at that place. It’s the idea de jour that middle management should die. But great middle managers can create and shape culture, trust, speed, and safety. Maybe my role should die, maybe it will. AI can route information better than managers. It can. The question is whether the things that make teams actually work, trust, safety, someone willing to fight for your growth, can be modeled well and with a human touch. Jack wrote 2,000 words about how organizations work and never once mentioned why people do their best work. It’s never an information problem, it’s a human one.

The loudest story about AI is a lonely one. One person with an army of chatbots. Other humans are friction. That gets the future wrong. The best things aren’t built alone. In a moment of change, we want to remind the world (and ourselves) what Notion stands for: — Think Together

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