July 4, Bay Area house party:
- Anthropic eng seeking living room sublet for vibes
- MIT AI researchers roll down a concrete road into traffic to "see who can get down the fastest"
- “Are you having fun? Are you a real one? Are you in YC Startup School? I’m the birthday boy.”
- 19 y/o hypnotist w/ “Doctor” as last name in Contacts
- "There are like 400 MIT people here"
- Guy doing spinning backflips on dance floor
- High school dropouts raising fund for their peers
- Long restroom line leads to flashlight-excursions into the yard
- Neighbors call the police
new cause area: sharing conversational preferences
eg I value linguistic precision + emotional honesty, yet this seems uncommon, even within rat-adjacent communities?
where are these conversational norms?
Reminds me of the quote, "A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times" from Earl Nightingale:
Quote in full: "Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free and our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace."
wow forgot that my main Homebrew was an Intel build running under Rosetta 2 this whole time; my Claude noticed and proposed a full migration.
mindblown by Opus 5.5 once again, what a time to be alive!