Jonathan Baldie

Software engineer and author.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Google sifted through the data they’d gathered on team performance...Teams whose members felt comfortable saying whatever was on their mind were far more effective than teams worried about how they might be evaluated if they didn’t agree with each other" https://t.co/LWLKwCnhrj

[frye @___frye]

stop.

in your mind’s eye, think of the video game DOOM. imagine playing it, moving through a level.

DOOM is now running on you

[Mike Knoop @mikeknoop]

Parent tip: you can upload a photo of your kids printed paper school calendar to ChatGPT and ask it to generate an .ics calendar file that you can directly import

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

@rohindhar Restricting the supply of housing led to increased prices? Crazy how that works.

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

@MsMelChen I honestly thought at the outbreak of the disease that the lab leak would be a Chernobyl moment. Seeing the leak suppressed and dismissed, labelled “fake news” was… demoralising 😞

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"When people speak in vague generalities...and use a lot of abstract terms like 'justice,' 'morality,' 'liberty,' and so on, without ever really explaining the specifics of what they are talking about, they are almost always hiding something." https://t.co/R8nQyBvrNP

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

@HMBrough_ +1. Video games are a fun and low-stakes way to pick up skills and test ideas. Also an underrated medium for storytelling, e.g. KotOR and Mass Effect trilogy.

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

@oggyxe How a dev uses LLMs reveals a lot about them. They’re incredible tools. But it’s painfully obvious when a dev has copypasta’d some code without testing, etc.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I wonder if any student will ever top this email.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

People talk a lot, and justifiably, about bias in the media. But the biggest bias of all is to try to make stories seem more exciting, by reporting about patterns that aren't there.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Covering car parks with solar panels is way more logical than plastering them on prime farmland.

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

+1. Focusing on speed is a dangerously seductive slippery slope. Focus on quality instead and you’ll really differentiate your pipeline. You can make it faster later.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

I don’t think you need a whole lot of lessons on how to use Cursor. That’s pretty straightforward.

Spend more time focusing on the data pipeline (RAG or otherwise) for feeding the models you’re using and making them better over time.

[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

History shows that free market economies create growth and abundance, while state-controlled economies lead to stagnation and poverty.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"People who exhibit traits like narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism often believe they are morally superior to others, even when evidence suggests otherwise." https://t.co/s227VckQ9E

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

None of the top comments is the correct answer: The Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution changed the world like nothing else, and it may have happened much later if it hadn't taken off in the UK when it did.

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

@greyspostit 1. Displays skill
2. While relaying a humble story
3. And smiling the entire time.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you're one of the people who think this era is a step down from some previous one, just try putting these two words together: "cancer" and "vaccine." You get a shot and it prevents you from getting cancer.

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

@robkhenderson That looks like The Laws of Human Nature by @RobertGreene.

[Jonathan Baldie @jonbaldie]

That really is the question. And the infuriating bit is that Elon/SpaceX will get 0 credit if it succeeds. There’ll be a spate of “in spite of” headlines written by folks/orgs with not 1% of SpaceX’s competence.

[Christine Eriksen @AnEriksenWife]

SpaceX definitely leading the charge on humanity colonizing space. The question in my mind isn't "can Elon do it?" it's "will bureaucrats manage to stop him?"

I certainly hope not.

https://t.co/VMrkauAN3z

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

@elonmusk “Liberty and equality are mutually exclusive, even hostile concepts. Liberty, by its very nature, undermines social equality, and equality suppresses liberty – for how else could it be attained?”