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My sabbatical has come to an end, and that means it’s time for a retrospective.

Since last year, my content consumption has changed a little bit. Not that much though. If you’re just interested in what’s changed since last year, here’s a summary: Removed: Noahpinion (repetitive, lots of posts, not always insightful), Money Stuff (so many long posts), The Pragmatic Programmer (not that useful imo) Added: Astral Codex Ten (the new MVP of my content consumption), The Intelligence from the Economist (well worth the short episodes), Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast (truly useless but I enjoy it, what can I say)

While visiting Lisbon, my friend and I happened upon a Michelin Star-winning restaurant very close to our Airbnb…. We decided to take the plunge and make reservations.

Two years of using LLMs regularly has challenged a strong belief of mine: that fundamentally, thinking is primarily just language that happens in our heads. I’m aware that this wasn’t a prevailing view in psychology, but I still want to talk about what changed my mind, since it didn’t require reading academic literature – just engaging with practical tools and reflecting on the experience.

I’m taking a sabbatical.

It took two years, but I finally finished building an interpreter.

Since I graduated college, my reading diet has been primarily nonfiction… I’m starting to feel like that’s not a particularly good way to make myself smarter.

Sometimes when you’re searching for a digital record, you don’t remember the precise wording of the original entry…. Semantic search attempts to compare the meanings of words and phrases instead of the characters.

Tasks. So simple that every online app tutorial uses them as example data. But try to build a practical task management app and you’ll quickly discover that there’s a lot of complexity to them.

My life is held together with the Todoist app … but it’s just not a good fit for work in the corporate world. And that led me to a practical side project.