Nathaniel Jones

A process of ongoing caffeination

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

Duct taped vimrc, bash and AppleScript together and now my desktop background cross-fades to a random image on :w

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You can just compound stuff

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@elonmusk Grok Profit Units, nominative determinism always wins

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So companies reach for the oldest instrument they know: more people in the room. More reviewers. More context. More soft vetoes in dinner jackets. AI accelerates clarity, then governance adds weight to commitment until the old cadence returns. The individual hears sooner. The machine still has to learn to answer.

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

We often misunderstand what senior executives actually tune. They make decisions, sure, but the deeper control surface is cadence: how long the organization may look at a fact before it becomes judgment, and how long judgment may remain in the air before someone puts weight on it. The calendar is the machine.

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AI changes the music. Not tone, although civilization will survive with fewer handcrafted paragraphs about “next steps.” Tempo. AI decreases the latency to clarity. The note arrives sooner. The chord resolves faster. The room knows what it knows before the room has learned how to keep time again.

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Tasty and effortless way to get more protein. I’ve been enjoying every night for months while ramping up fitness markers. Brilliant machine

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

I've been using the Ninja Creami every single day to make protein ice cream, and I'm not going back.

Your life will change when you realize that you can eat ice cream while getting lean.

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Time for $AAPL pi

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me: My decision-making is our bottleneck. Use your agency to make good choices. Don’t halt the production line
Claude: In accordance with your directive I am delighted to be using my agency to weave bureaucratic poetry explaining why this banal decision justifies your attention

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@buildabear Please consider stocking over-bEar headphones

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WE ARE LIVING THE STAR WARS 😎

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

Not a day goes by in 2026 where I don’t find myself randomly chuckling somewhere at my sheer delight we have formed whimsical anthropomorphic robots from math and might and magic

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

“The only people in the universe who have never seen Star Wars are the characters in Star Wars and that's cause they lived them, Ted, that's cause they lived the Star Wars!”— Marshall Eriksen

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

“10x engineer” is most useful as a shibboleth. When someone responds about effort or work units or quality slipping from haste rather than about outcomes, I quickly and surgically learn how they orient around the most fundamental principle in all engineering

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The bottleneck was never writing the code, it was shipping the code through the labyrinth to the data. And this was then convoluted further by orienting all the logistics around shipping the data to the code.

Code is cheap. Manufacture it at the source of the data

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

*Rip Van Winkle wakes up after 30 years* So what you’re telling me is almost everyone is playing text-based adventure games 16 hours a day, but it’s actually an MMORPG, and if they stop the entire world economy crashes

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How we’re all collectively starting to understand how to use AI coding tools

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@fmbillwatt A long time ago, I googled for two days to get imagemagick to compile on my macOS version. Today, homebrew automates that, Claude would work around any surprises in a minute or two, and I could ask for a bespoke image processing library in any language and get it in an hour. Wild

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

and up there in the heavens
Galileo and those pining for the moon
know it’s a slow burn
— coldplay

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

Looking beyond Mythos’ impact 7 months down to the next 7 years: startups will double down on vertically integrating software development, enterprises on fragmentation. Actual security vs acceptable political losses. Castles vs archipelagos. Phenomenal cycle time implications

[Nathaniel Jones @thenthj]

Tigger: “There's no difference between falling a thousand feet to the jagged rocks below and tumbling out of bed.”
Piglet: “Oh. Really?”
Tigger: “Sure! *ahem* Except for the splat at the end they’re practically similar”

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.”

― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman