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Floating Mountains by Joe Rohde - One of Disney's most prominent imagineers reflects on his life, art, creativity and how collaboration is the secret to accomplishing massive projects.

Plato's cave comes to mind here. A text response that can't be differentiated from a human response does not change the fact that there is a difference. If I record your voice and then put a friend on the other end of the phone, I can play back your voice or it could be you. Would you argue that the recording of your voice is the same as you actually saying something?

Interesting decision to build the whole aircraft instead of the propulsion system only. I wonder what the decision process was between retrofit of existing turboprop frame vs. build from the ground up? I would expect the level of effort and certification to be much higher building from scratch even though you get complete control.

Even if they could "do it better" it is still locked into a single device/vehicle and can't match the eco-system that Apple and Google have developed across a family of devices and services. In order to really compete, they would need to enter markets already dominated by big tech companies.

10MB for the Google Homepage! 44MB for Facebook Homepage! I have not been paying attention to website bloat. Wow, and people were annoyed when a site had to download a whole JQuery library for a single function.

Anthropic clearly doesn't understand that customers see their brand as "Claude", Google's brand as "Gemini" and OpenAI's brand as "ChatGPT." They have so many plans and exclusions that they risk customer confusion. I was surprised when I was pay $200/month for Claude Code, finding it super helpful, and then I had to pay separately to get API access for an experiment. Why are so many parts of "Claude" separate from each other, especially on a $200/month subscription.

Anthropic better get this sorted out with a proper product manager and marketing or they risk customers jumping to easier to understand platforms that are good enough.

NASA "Force?" It sounds very similar to Space Force and Air Force and adds a militaristic tone to NASA. Maybe that is the intent. I know that NASA and the military are closely linked but the general brand of NASA is a the science-focused civilian side while something like Space Force would be the military side.

Also, have massive layoffs every few months just to keep people on edge. AWS wants people to leave with RTO and badging policies, comp range shifts lower unless you have year over year ratings, and an obsessive push to force AI into every process. Top talent is leaving and will continue to leave AWS.

I made a decision to reframe "news" as the "fear network" so my brain had that context as I found out the news of the day. The article had an interesting perspective on information diets contributing to overall pessimism.

Marco Rubio needed this for his presidential run in 2028. Does this mean that Putin will look the other way for Maduro as long as Trump looks the other way when Putin captures or kills Zelenskyy? Have they officially agreed to divide the world as spheres of influence?

Learning to play individual notes from sheet music only helps you learn one song. The breakthrough for me was thinking in musical structure.

- There are 12 keys on the piano just repeated - A scale can start on any of those 12 keys - The "home" key of the scale get labels with a roman numeral one, I - The rest of the keys in the scale get roman numerals ii,iii,IV,V,vi,vii - The I,IV,V are all upper case to represent major chords, the lower case for minor chords - Most pop songs use I,IV,V from a scale. In C-major scale, C, F, G major chords. - You can start on any key on the piano and if you play the same sequence of I, IV, V, you'll get the same song, just transposed into a different key. (the scales are slightly different due to even temperament for advanced ears)

So, learn songs by the chord structure first. It is easier to remember and you'll start to recognize patterns in other songs and unlock them faster.

Color grading is pretty interesting. Please share good resources if you find some.

Technical:

- Understand how to deploy teams of agents effectively to accomplish significant goals

- Learn ECS/Dots in Unity to scale a system to hundreds of thousands of actors

Non Technical:

- Improve people management skills for leading technical teams with a target of helping each person grow in 2026 and level up the team

- Automate more of my personal finances to gain leverage from systems instead of hoping I make good decisions consistently

I do the same. It lets you see exactly what the LLM is using for context and you can easily correct manually. Similar to the spec-driven-development in Kiro where you define the plan first, then move to creating code to meet the plan.