• The Configuration Complexity Clock illustrates the lifecycle of software project requirements as they evolve from simple, hard-coded values to increasingly complex configuration systems. Initially, developers start with hard-coded values for speed, but as business needs shift, they migrate these values into configuration files. Eventually, this escalation leads to the adoption of sophisticated business rules engines and custom Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) to manage growing logic requirements. Despite these architectural efforts, projects often find themselves circling back to the original simplicity, realizing that complex configuration systems create their own bugs, learning curves, and maintenance burdens. Hadlow suggests that, at a certain level of complexity, hard-coding may remain the least painful option.

• What will our economic future look like? (anthropic.com)

  I like how the least optimistic scenario is simply LLMs not making a difference, instead of the very real possibility of them damaging education, destroying people’s attention spans and their ability to learn, eroding trust within societies, increasing the wealth inequality and leading to class wars. - HN

• Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

  Mondo Mayo’s proprietary metrics indicate that family life can be performed remotely with greater efficiency and manager satisfaction. The Mondo Machine, rented at an affordable rate, sits in your home when you cannot be there, feeding pellets to your child, and they bond.

• Splash-free urinals for global sustainability and accessibility: Design through physics and differential equations
• LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
  • 216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem

• 아늑함을 즐김 空

We love to see the process, not just the result. The imperfections in your work can be beautiful if they show your struggle for perfection, not a lack of care. — ralphammer

• 현실은 인간의 연산으로 완전히 파악할 수 없는 복잡계. 주어진 상황과 능력으로 할 수 있는 최선의 적응은 단순함과 꾸준함.

  • 파산을 면하는 선에서 여러가지를 해보고 자신에게 맞는 걸 위주로 꾸준히. 그를 위해 단순, 편안, 쾌적함이 필요.

• 🥱 -> 🤔💡🌱 — On The Death of Daydreaming

I've often described my motivation for building software to others using imagery: I like to go find a secluded beach, build a large, magnificent sand castle, and then walk away. Will anyone notice? Probably not. Will the waves eventually destroy it? Yep. Did I still get immense satisfaction? Absolutely. — aliasxneo

The texture, the juiciness, the complexity of the flavor, the imperfections, the joy of finding a particularly good one, the cosmic horror of eating a wormy one, the nostalgia of having your grandma's strawberry jam with dozens of individually unique strawberries in it. - Dopamine Fracking

Simplicity, even if it sacrifices some ideal functionality has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing. — The Rise of Worse is Better

Roberto Blake was talking about making 100 crappy videos to get better over time. Putting in the reps and improving a little bit each time.

Putting in the work without expecting any external reward at first (eg views, followers, likes, etc) will pay off in the long run. — 100 Scrappy Things

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful. — Constantin S. Stanislavski

A good match is a structured dance, where players aim to score while they are following well-defined rules. This freedom within a structure is what makes it fun. — ralphammer

• Pivot Points
  • non-judgmental aspects of personality that can be strengths in some contexts and weaknesses in others
  • Pivot Points are fixed in the short term

“Motivation often comes after starting, not before. Action produces momentum.” — James Clear

Focus is more about not keeping busy when you need to wait for something.
Eat the boredom for a minute.

— [[life-tips#wodenokoto]]

4 minutes run hard enough to push heart rate to 90%, 3 minutes recover, repeat 4 times

• https://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/advice
• Get running with Couch to 5K

recommended routine - bodyweightfitness - I Don't Have This Much Time!

• Don't workout at all (saves anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes, but really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really not recommended)

도무지 읽히지 않는 책 앞에서 내가 택한 방법은 펼쳐진 페이지 앞에서 멍때리기이다. 다르게 표현하면 이렇다. 펼쳐진 두 페이지 앞에서 오래 머물기.

책을 펼쳐놓는 것으로 충분하다. 읽지 못해도 좋다. 매일 정해진 진도를 나가야 하는 학교 수업이 아니니까. 하지만 읽지 않아도 괜찮다고 해서 펼쳐두지조차 않으면 곤란하다. 가능한 한 자주 책을 펼쳐두도록 하자. 전혀 읽지 않고 멍하니 바라보고 있다가 다시 덮게 되더라도 — 막막한 독서. 시로군. P.10~13

I think it should be everyone's primary focus to sleep well, drink water, get outside, get active, and eat generally decently. I hate to say it, but if you're not eating a good amount of vegetables and fruit, decent protein, sleep, etc, no amount of XYZ will catch up to that detriment. — CE02

My real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. — Deirdre Sullivan

Kind Engineering - How To Engineer Kindness

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. — Teller

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