Does Art Make the Cut

After my recent post about defensible moats in an AI-powered world, a friend responded to the question of what categories I overlooked, saying The arts. There is beauty in imperfection. Whether it be singing, art, or storytelling… AI generated art… is soulless. I have two diffi…

Leavings of Many Deaths

And as to you Life I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths — Walt Whitman, [Song of Myself](https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.00707_00733) If a more poetic description of evolution exists, I never saw it. For those among us who strive hard it may as well read “As to you …

Summary and Audience

This week I participated in a discussion about newsletters. Specific topics ranged broadly: audience focus, free versus subscription at different levels, content curation, ad CPMs, and summary. The question of summary arises from AI-based message handling. The presenter said he t…

Listening Is Underrated

Many years ago a friend pointed out to me that the more the other party talks in a meeting, the better they tend to think it went. People do love the sound of their own voices. I’ve tried to apply this observation since then and find it largely true. My approach is simply to ask …

Step CLI

Looking to set up ssl connections to PostgreSQL with pgbouncer, I found Step CLI. It’s an open-source certificate management tool for the command line users. And it’s both flexible and simple. The two repos of interest are step-cli and step-certificates. It’s fairly straightforwa…