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...m the terminal to turn on a dangerous developer feature. The fact that Bits and Bobs is a Google Doc is itself a form of gauntlet. The gauntlet tests two things: 1) Does the user have the capability to make it through the gauntlet? 2)...
...on't do it. Often you want a handful of iterative synthesis passes. My Bits and Bobs has three synthesis passes: 1) Capturing very rough notes live when something feels worth capturing. 2) A couple of days later, cleaning up those not...
James Cham vibecoded a tool to visualize the appearance of concepts in Bits and Bobs over time. I love it!
My Bits and Bobs are bite size. They stand on their own. Often with a top-level insight and then exposition or unpacking or wrinkling. But adjacent ones are in conver...
...e reflections: Field Notes. He was directly inspired for the format by Bits and Bobs!
Bits and Bobs is my own personal anti-Twitter. Instead of shouting into the void, I invite people into my cozy study where I navelgaze. Twitter is about hot takes ...
...leverage is created. That's why compounding engineering works. And why Bits and Bobs generate so much leverage for me. The synthesis pass is important but never urgent. This is the closest to my secret: I just give the synthesis pass ...
...ed both. I've found I need roughly 4:1 action:reflection by minute. My Bits and Bobs process is my weekly reflection, and I couldn't live without it. The tech industry today often does all action, no reflection. Academia does all refl...
...he 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 stand the tes...
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 added two...
... want it to change unexpectedly. Each touch is an implied curation. My Bits and Bobs process each week is driven by multiple different touch points where I interact with the previous week's notes and refine and keep the ones that stil...
...m 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!
...king 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.
... 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 streak of spe...
...otes 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 brainsto...
... 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 personal intell...
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 in my da...
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.