Author Archives: John

In spirituality, you don’t learn, you realize.

Even open books only show you two pages at a time.

The gamechanger in AI is connecting the probabilistic (LLMs) to the deterministic (Python). Getting AI to correctly invoke deterministic tools (early and often) will be powerful.

You’re already working, why not do a good job?

Knocked down 7 times, get up 8.

Today I watched what may have been the best tennis match of all-time. I don’t think I could have appreciated it without having played the sport. You cannot appreciate an art form without participating in it.

One benefit of having two big work assignments is that you can procrastinate on one by working on the other.

Creating competitions with prizes is a remarkably powerful way of motivating people to work for free.