s16e09: Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually
0.0 Context SettingThursday, 5 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon. I had said that I was going to take a break today as an act of compassion. I have a habit of going hard for things and then feeling...
View Articles16e10: Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks;...
0.0 Context SettingFriday, 6 October, 2023 in Portland Oregon and hoo boy it's going to be unseasonably warm for autumn. I described this in a chat yesterday as "nice, and a horrible omen of things to...
View Articles16e11: Substack's Thin End of the Quora Wedge
0.0 Context SettingIt's Monday, 9 October, 2023 in Portland Oregon and we had that unseasonably warm weekend. Now we are back to relatively cold, grey, and rainy. An update on Hallway TrackHallway...
View Articles16e12: Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability;...
s16e12: Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants0.0 Context SettingTuesday, 10 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and a day that has started out with...
View Articles16e13: Five Things From Hallway Track 001: The Cosy Internet
0.0 Context SettingIt's Thursday, 12 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon.I didn't write an episode yesterday and you know what? I would normally feel horrible about it, because it would mean I broke my...
View Articles16e14: The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs.
0.0 Context SettingFriday, 13 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and it is grey and not warm.Hallway Track 002 Registration OpenRegistration is now open for Hallway Track 002 Journalism, News, and...
View Articles16e15: Just Put A Fucking Warning Label On It; A Sort Of Qualified Immunity;...
0.0 Context SettingI started writing this on Monday, 16 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon after driving through a foot / 30 cm of water because it was hard raining. I drove through all that water...
View Articles16e16: Not Up and To The Right; Just Deeper, Really; Better Wording Faster;...
0.0 Context SettingThursday, 19th October, 2023, sitting on the sofa, in the family room, in the basement, listening to music1 on the frankly ridiculous in-ceiling speaker system we inherited with the...
View Articles16e17: Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve...
0.0 Context SettingThursday, 26 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, U.S., where there's no way to prevent the events of last night in Maine, in the only nation where this regularly happens2. Man, gun...
View Articles16e18: Generative People Personalities; Content Distribution Networks...
0.0 Context SettingIt's Friday, 27 October, 2023 in Portland, Oregon and I am tired and have a headache and need to look at something other than this monitor. 0.1 Hallway Track 004 Work, the internet,...
View Articles16e19: Dark; Forward-Looking Barn Door Statements
0.0 Context SettingFriday, 3 November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where it is cold but I suspect that's because I'm in the basement and haven't put socks on. A very short one today.0.1 Hallway Track 005...
View Articles16e20: Qualified Endorsements; Happiness; Writing
0.0 Context SettingMonday, 6 November, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, and under the dystopian rule of the clocks having gone back one hour.0.1 Hallway Track NewsThe last 12 free spaces for Hallway Track...
View Articles16e21: What We Predict; Rods for Looking at God; Tactical Auditorium
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Tuesday, 12 December, 2023 in Portland, Oregon, where it is the afternoon and so dark. I’ve been on vacation for about three weeks! I had intended on writing a season finale...
View Articles17e01: How old things keep living; Impossible AI; Look, just call it AI
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Monday, 8 January, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, and most of the parts of the Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 -- which is to say, the plug -- have been found nearby.I think I might try...
View Articles17e02: How It’s Made; Blocking is Healthy, Actually
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Tuesday, 9 January, 2024 in Portland, Oregon, where it’s wet and getting colder1 until the snow comes this weekend. Two things today.0.1 Let’s work together!My consulting...
View Articles17e03: Personality; A Rule about Designing Games
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Wednesday, 10 January, 2024 in Portland, Oregon where it is still supposed to be cold and snowing over the weekend. Jurassic Park is still a great film! And phoooey deep...
View Articles17e04: You don’t want an intelligent assistant; Protocols, Not Platforms
0.0 Context SettingThursday, 11 January, 2024. Yesterday I used Llamaindex to shove a corpus of several hundred newsletter episodes into a word vector store, hooked it up to a query engine and chatbot...
View Articles17e05: Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Friday, 12 January 2024 in Portland, Oregon. Tomorrow’s weather ranges from a low of -9 Celsius to -5 Celsius, with which I disagree.1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention1.1...
View Articles17e06: It’s not a hardware or software problem, dummy
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Thursday, 1 February in Portland, Oregon, and my study is a mess because I moved everything around. This was made slightly easier because I decided to get wheels for the...
View Articles17e07: The Great Social Network Heist
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Friday, 2 February 2024 in Portland, Oregon. It’s not raining, and I’ve just finished today’s Hallway Track. Of which...0.1 Hallway Track NewsHallway Track 008: Infrastructure...
View Articles17e08: Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic...
0.0 Context SettingIt’s around 9:30am on Thursday, 8 February, in Portland, Oregon. Everyone here has just had, is having, or is about to have, a winter cold, because those happen again now.0.1 Hallway...
View Articles17e09: What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide
0.0 Context SettingMonday, 12 February 2024 in Portland, Oregon. I started writing this around midday, but didn’t get around to finishing it after dinner. 0.1 Hallway Track NewsNo Hallway Track news...
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s17e10: Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Tuesday, 13 February, 2024 in Portland Oregon and I’m going to have pancakes tonight.I killed one of the goblin leaders by hilariously shoving them into a chasm but now am...
View Articles17e11: Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS...
0.0 Context SettingWednesday, 14 February, 2024, the day after I made lots of pancakes and ate lots of pancakes.Quite a bit today.1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention1.1 Context is KingLately, I’ve...
View Articles17e12: Justice in Forensic Algorithms; The One With Retroactive Bereavement...
0.0 Context SettingFriday, 16 February, 2024 in Portland, Oregon and it is cold. I wanted to make this one short and I could not. I am sorry. Believe me, for this one especially, I am just as...
View Articles18e01: Pulling the Cord; Do Not Reply; Fast User Switching
0.0 Context SettingMonday, 11 March, 2024 in Portland, Oregon after being away for a while. But I’m back now! That break allows for a new season, so I’m just going to with that. 0.1 Hallway Track...
View Articles18e03: A Re-introduction; Streaking Still Considered Harmful; Pulling the...
0.0 Context SettingIt’s Thursday, 21 March 2024 in Portland, Oregon and a grey day outside. We had a long weekend of sunny, warm, cloudless weather and completely overdid it on barbecues.0.1 Events:...
View Articles18e04: What Are We Doing Here, Exactly?; LLMs Are Playful, Actually
0.0 Context SettingIt’s the afternoon on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Terminal D, ATL airport, after helping out a new client with their 1.5 day workshop. I now know that I do not like hotels that are...
View Articles18e05: Babel Notices; Our Scientists Recommend We Research Fusion Power; An...
0.0 Context SettingThursday, 28 March, 2024 in Portland Oregon where it is grey and probably raining, but not raining too hard, a kind of listless rain, without too much heart in it because it knows...
View Articles16e06: Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems
0.0 Context SettingA grey Thursday morning in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2024. For April fools this week, Florian and I switched the homepage of our Do Not Reply cards to an AI version, but don’t...
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