If you suffer from rumination or can’t get over regrets I think your worst sin might be pride because to be stuck in regret is to think that you had full control over that past situation instead of thinking maybe you were never as powerful or intelligent or wise as you believed
“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library.”
— Carl Sagan
The five stages of academic writing:
1. Procrastination
2. Panic
3. Caffeine overdose
4. Submitting a barely coherent mess
5. Swearing to do it differently next time
My brain exploded when I realized 90% of the clawdbot hype is people who didn’t know that automation exists, and are just using it like Zapier but with catastrophic security holes.
In 20 years, vibe coders will look at the Linux kernel repo the way we look at the pyramids. In awe, unable to imagine how they managed to drag all those giant stones and pile them up in the middle of the desert.