Neville is Never Normal

Make stuff on the internet and explore the 🌏. Win and help win. Currently based in 🇪🇸. Building global health insurance for nomads:

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Why Never Normal? What's wrong with the default path?

There's a massive lie 👖🔥 hidden in plain sight at the heart of our education and employment systems.

Here's a 30 second explanation:

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@stephsmithio

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@vrexec The Americans are busy moving to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

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@pitdesi @typesfast I never understand the FRA hate. Yes it's huge, but it all makes sense. Everything works. It's clean. Plenty of bathrooms, etc.

Lisbon is like: "Let's funnel every passenger to the same part of the airport, but make it too small, hot, and the bathroom doors open the wrong way"

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@Nin_99 @ziv_ravid Oops with plov I meant the origin of the dish itself, not the etymology of the word

And yes, the tea naming by land or sea is great also

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@rulesdisobeyer Jobs to be done framework

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@Sepiyoung @RaminNasibov The atomic version of this https://t.co/IXWDopmTON

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@antoniogm There’s a micro biome joke in here somewhere but but I’ll hold my tongue

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@patrickc How do you interpret that? More people starting businesses or more of them using Atlas to do it?

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AI analyzing how other AI uses your AI, but arguably that’s when it gets even more useful, because with human users, I can construct simple funnels, and watch screen recordings to understand what’s going on. With agents using your service, you’re going to need AI to understand what they’re doing.

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Amazing! Looking forward to seeing everything that comes next. I was just onboarding a new Genki team member and walking her through our tools, and (while demoing PostHog) I said “this is the one built-in AI that I actually use. It’s surprisingly really good.” (as opposed to just using Claude as my universal interface and connecting to other tools by CLI or MCP).

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@claystaggs @toylan20 Certified ripped. Well done!

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@pmarca This is why telegram is the best and worth paying for - then you can auto transcribe all the voice notes people send you, so they get to record voice and you just read text

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@pmarca Basically, the future looks like license plates in Dubai

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The real question is where will all the business logic live?

The models themselves? The agent/harness? or in those headless back ends?

IMO “Headless backend” = relational database by another name

I think you can make a theoretical argument that some company can “make the best agent for X job by specializing in that one thing”

but anthropic seems to be eating them up on an hourly basis

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Okay but let’s do this for healthcare

[Pubity @pubity]

One man in Ireland is trying to lower the price of a Guinness across the country.

He used AI to create the "Guinndex", a map that shows the cost of a pint at almost 2000 bars. Now bars are lowering the prices of their pint to try and compete with each other.

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Minecraft? Nah

Mine cart madness

[Nostalgia @nostalgiaa]

‘How are you so focused under pressure?’

Me in 1995:

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@nevmed Enjoy it other Neville!

btw I’ve found that this age is a great time to travel with little ones. Their needs are fairly simple, and you’re past the very fragile/what-is-this-thing first months

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Opportunity: There's no travel searching / booking tool that's optimized for agents (or if there is, it's not optimized for being easy to find!)