Tiniscule

Anthropic needs ads asap. Usage throttling is a way worse user experience than a suggested golf bag to buy.

One of my friends has followed the Dave Ramsey debt snowball plan to the letter. Attends every annual conference. Proud Ramsey advocate. Early 40s. Husband is a cop. Couple kids. Just a great, red-blooded Ohio family. Probably makes $200k/year as a household (just a guess). Over the last 10 years: • Paid off house • Paid off cars • 529s funded for kids • On track to retire around 55 Now look, I’m obviously a debt-user and advocate for going out there and building wealth. The Ramsey plan is not a character fit for me, as I’m admittedly wired very ambitious, and enjoy investing, building my business, and taking on that responsibility (and risk). But these folks are doing better than 90% of the country - in a stress free manner - simply by: • Finding a plan • Sticking to the plan • Not increasing expenses as income and savings grow Something to be said for that, I think. Stuck to their guns, didn’t care that it was “boring”. Didn’t listen to other people telling them to be more aggressive. Very happy for them.

Nothing like a portco signing its first contract. I am just as excited for the first $ in as the last $ in.

Canceling my Function membership. Same labs through my insurance $65. Function charges me $309. Quest appointments are so easy now. I get lab orders for whatever I want from my doc, book with Quest, submit to my insurance and I get $3000 of labs for $65.

Marc Andreessen was wrong about software eating the world, and I see people making the same mistake about AI today. I wrote this almost three years ago and I wouldn't change a word if I were publishing it today.

it got weird today, but

One thing people often don't realize with their first kid, which can drive dismay and even regret in early months, is the overwhelming temporariness of all your problems. Baby's emotional regulation is non existent or completely counterproductive? Yeah key parts of the brain couldn't fit through the birth canal, give it a few months. Needs sleep but wont sleep? Yeah key parts of the brain... needs to feed but doesnt know how? Say it with me again. And so forth. If your baby cuddles up to you and feels like a part of your soul in natural union as you each fall into your intended roles that's great and magical for you and all that but if it feels like a severely dysfunctional broken thing that cannot possibly carry the tools to survive even in a highly favorable environment and actively undermines even the most baseline necessary efforts to help it... it is also that. Humans arent like other animals, space constraints are a bitch. Nature isnt a beautiful harmony who gives you what you need, shes a penny counting miser who gives you exactly what's worth paying for and not a cent more and thinks in bulk terms and macro trends. But it's fine. They grow every day and whatever the behavior you just cant bear anymore one day it will just stop. And until then dont assume there's some magic song or ritual that will fix it, nature doesn't think you are entitled to riddles with answers if they're expensive to write. Sometimes it's just annoying for a bit. Walk away, hand them off, read a book, watch youtube on your phone, whatever. You aren't being graded as a parent. Attachment isnt real. Missing brain is coming. This thing will pass.