Steven Ritchie 🧋

building software to make our food supply chain safer. prev: trained young people at @theksociety and built products at @versettinc | DMs open.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@geoffreylitt can you share that recipe list though 👀

[Emmett @emmettshine]

https://t.co/q4Y6sYaaT7

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@aquavoice Do you guys have local models/offline support on Mac? Couldn't see anything on the site

[isabelle 🪐 @isabelleboemeke]

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[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@SofiasBio @LRB gotta watch that casey video now too

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@clerk Down right now? Can't access dashboard and attempting to auth on our platform that uses clerk is getting a 429.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

what are the popular/useful QA agents out there right now?

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

There's been a resurgence in writing about taste and how important it will be in the age of AI (in terms of research taste, product taste, code, etc). I'm trying to make sense of it.

The way I'm understanding things, people are using taste as shorthand for both pattern-matching & judgement vs personal aesthetics. It would be helpful to split the two up so you can better understand how to train and improve the right taste for you.

One focused on aesthetics and is personal; it’s about what resonates with you. In this instance, there is arguably no bad taste (that’s applying a judgement of someone else’s choices with your own lens).

The second is about distinguishing “good from bad” when attempting to meet a goal. This is arguably more objective and judgement based, since it’s something the industry generally coalesces around and there's usually some prior data.

For the personal angle, it’s seeing what resonates. it's far more about aesthetics. Subrina Heyink had some great posts about this on Substack. Derek (@dieworkwear) does as well on PutThisOn. The short answer is trying lots of things and seeing what resonates. It's a lot of exploration and self-awareness into knowing what works for you and why. Maybe the only "bad" taste in this scenario is mindlessly following norms without considering why. But this is more like undeveloped taste.

Your goal in this style of taste is just personal satisfaction.

For the goal based one, it’s understanding what works and what doesn’t. The taste that comes in for something like research is an intuition for what will lead to potentially interesting outcomes. To get there you need to have a strong understanding of the landscape and what came before you. Bad taste here is clearer because it's essentially just bad decision-making.

Your goal here is finding something that actually works. This could obviously overlap with personal satisfaction (it filters the available options).

The best product people tend to have a strong sense of both personal aesthetics as well as pattern matching, allowing them to combine both what they find personally resonant with what works for products.

The more I write about it the more I think they overlap.
- you need a strong understanding of what came before you (taste has a lot of cultural context)
- when multiple options can work there is a still a need for judgement

In both scenarios exposure to lots of ideas/examples is key. So ultimately I think if you want to improve your taste you need to consider both.

PS I'm just trying to figure this out so I could be overthinking this entire thing.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@ifvictr @aadilpickle Huge, thanks for sharing.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

Another excellent essay from @zebriez and @joincolossus

[Brie Wolfson @zebriez]

I spent the last 60 days working at Cursor. It's been one of the most thrilling phases of my professional life.

There's a lot of mystique around the company. Over the last two months, some things matched my expectations; many did not.

I wrote an essay for @joincolossus about things that have surprised me about the company and its culture so far.

https://t.co/jfU79gDxbq

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@wolfejosh Interesting -- definitely would have thought it's the inverse. I wonder if the "where" has more short term impact but over 20y it nets out.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

Been loving claude code so much I almost upgraded to Max. Instead I spent too long staring at the terminal waiting for credits to reset and coding by hand. Felt weird, like I had one arm tied behind my back.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@amandanat Thought maybe this only included puns/portmanteaus at first.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

Are there any good e-ink devices for reading long form PDFs? My go to has been getting them printed and bound and I like that, despite it making me feel like I’m in the Stone Age.

But it’s a slow cycle of printing and picking it up. Looking for ideas. Maybe @remarkablepaper?

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@chandhana should check out Metaphors We Live By. Not specific to this idea but would be interesting to see how metaphors compared to reality differ in each language

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

What’s the best site/newsletter for keeping up with interesting papers on @arxiv ?

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@cloudenlight Excited to learn what you're working on + up to now!

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

Srs question: has anyone actually produced meaningfully better/more work thanks to any sort of AI-notetaking-synthesis tool? Feels like everybody sharpening their saw and nobody is cutting. Specific examples would be great.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

@paularambles always looking for excuses and reminders to switch to wfc. this is one of them.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

Here's the second essay where I cover the problem and some big factors in more detail. https://t.co/5Dey7Eob7g

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

When researching infertility I was confusing fertility & infertility. It's a common mistake with big implications. Fertility is about the ability to conceive, while infertility is the struggle to do so after a year or more.

[Steven Ritchie 🧋 @staticsteven]

I've been researching infertility for the last few weeks trying to understand what opportunities might exist to help those looking to make the journey a bit easier! I'm writing about what I learn, starting with the problem itself.