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... one of the reasons I religiously take the time to do a synthesis pass with the Bits and Bobs each week. I want to take the proto insights, the snippets of ideas, and synthesize them into a more stable and coherent form that will stan...
Israel Shalom, commenting on last week's Bits and Bobs, reminds us about wheels on luggage. "Growing up, our luggage didn't have any wheels. We'd have to lug stuff around literally. Then someone ...
Trail of Bits releases some mitigations for security issues in MCP. However, superficial layers on top of a fundamentally insecure base actually makes it more dang...
... give them juice concentrate, you can get unlimited glasses of orange juice. My Bits and Bobs are concentrated insight–hard to drink on their own, but delicious when you add water!
...atic thinking LLMs can write infinite Op Eds for you, on demand. The backlog of Bits and Bobs feels exceptionally valuable to me in the age of AI.
...e already know how this movie ends. If you want to dig in more, I fed my recent Bits and Bobs into ChatGPT's Deep Research and it gave a more in depth report diving into the parallels.
Someone asked me why I publish Bits and Bobs each week. The weekly reflection is the load bearing part. The publishing is just the thing that makes me feel compelled to keep up the stre...
... poetry. But what's happened is backwards! Turns out machines are way better at bits than atoms. Atoms still require humans and will for a long time.
...working notes cards in it, with hundreds added every week. I also re-import the Bits and Bobs into it every week. In the past I've found being able to pass the Bits and Bobs to Claude as background context made it a much more powerful...
...n constraint might be the social process of diffusion. Diffusion in a system of bits is faster than diffusion in a system of atoms.
...rfect for this particular consumer: liquid media. This is one of the reasons my Bits and Bobs export is such an effective background context[vv] for me to feed to LLMs when I'm brainstorming.[vw] My Bits and Bobs is like my own person...
I've had a ton of fun playing with my Bits and Bobs to make liquid media.[yj] I recently went through and extracted all of the Bits and Bobs related directly or indirectly to what I'm building...
...[zg] Software has been a fossilized, lifeless experience. You get precisely the bits the software creator decided to give you, and they update rarely. But software should be something that grows, that adapts to you. The "grown, not bu...
Next week's Bits and Bobs will come out on Tuesday due to the US holiday.
Jamie Katz described Bits and Bobs as "doodling with thoughts," which I think is spot on.
The next Bits and Bobs will be on Tuesday 1/21 due to the US holiday.
...rom the tragedy of the commons. Only atoms have the tragedy of the commons, not bits.[akw][akx][aky][akz][ala] Bits are non-rivalrous in their consumption; you can make infinite perfect copies for free. So internet bandwidth can have ...
... for granted working in software: very short prototyping times. In the world of bits, you can go from a rough idea to a rough prototype often in just a few hours. This makes it much easier to explore, find compelling ideas, and experi...
I'll skip Bits and Bobs next week due to the holiday. They'll return on Monday, January 6th.
Bits being easier to transport than atoms means that the first to establish network effects wins. Once they win, they are basically unstoppable as long as...