1. Redundancy is the engine of progress In the 18th century, 90% of Americans worked in agriculture to feed themselves and the nation. Today, it's around 1% . In the 1950s, there were hundreds of thousands of telephone s 10/07 16:01 ♡
2. O Over my dead pencil Two weeks ago at Rails World, I told my fellow programmers that it's time to put down the pencils . We're not going to write the vast majority of code by hand any longer. Coding ag 10/06 15:28 ♡
3. W What on earth are you dooming about? Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better. Yet the endless, incessant dooming about the climate, the inequality, a 10/05 21:30 ♡
4. E Endless execution The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. It's al 08/10 04:27 ♡
5. I I'm sorry, Dave Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has always been an incredible movie, but its value as a cautionary tale has increased exponentially since AI took off. The iconic scene with 07/27 23:26 ♡
6. S Sitting down with Senra Jason and I have been making the same argument for over a quarter of a century now: Small teams can do incredible things when they embrace their constraints . And when they work in 07/27 01:22 ♡
7. W Wolves, sheep, and gypsies In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 07/22 04:02 ♡
8. T Three sacred cows that must die so Europe can live The decline of Europe is not inevitable, despite how much Americans love to joke/proclaim that the continent is doomed to become an open-air museum. Sure, it's possible that things 07/17 03:15 ♡
9. Dell is on a roll with the XPS We've been buying servers from Dell since the 2000s at 37signals , but I was never too impressed with their personal computers. They either felt cheap or enterprisey to me. Like th 07/15 06:04 ♡
10. The will to power will return In the 1980s, France started 43 nuclear reactors across 14 sites . On average, each reactor took just seven years to build. Forty years later, all but one of these reactors are sti 07/13 02:46 ♡
