Exploring failure modes of vibe coding
Why can’t I get Codex to delete my repo?
Tag: personal
What Are You Waiting For?
Making microzines.
The ancestor test
Once again I have been reading Robin Hanson on cultural adaptation and cultural drift. I am sympathetic to futarchy, and he invented it. I am less sympathetic to many of his proposed solutions to fix cultural drift. In a blog post from earlier this month, Hanson puts forward the idea of the “ancestor test” – […]
The best productivity app is the one you actually use
The best productivity app is the one you actually use Since I was a teenager, the number of productivity apps has just ballooned. You don’t need pen and paper anymore – you have zenware and Notion and Obsidian and etc etc etc. The world is drowning in productivity apps. Call me old-fashioned, but I am […]
4000 weeks
The average human lifespan is about 4000 weeks. When you put it that way, it’s a terrifyingly short amount of time.
No, I don’t want to join your AI-generated discussion
If you can’t be bothered to ask me questions, why should I answer them?
Goals for Living People
It’s not enough to have goals for living people. It’s time to think about what those goals are.
Adventures in getting old
This afternoon, my husband and I were talking about how things just seemed better back in 2008 to 2014, or at least less bad. Things made more sense. It seemed like we had positive visions for the future, or something. …and then I realised that we sounded like the 90s kids that I used to […]
Information-sifting heuristics
Happy rather belated New Year! I have now finished my PhD, I am a Dr, and I am slowly emerging back into the real world. Which – right now – is rather a messy place. I’ve increasingly been wondering about heuristics for deciding which sources are and aren’t reliable. This is because I think truth […]
Passing on wisdom: from those who have left physics
International Women’s Day is never easy for me. I love celebrating other women, but I see myself as too awkward and abrasive to do anything worth celebrating. This year was especially hard, because it was my first International Women’s Day since I left physics properly and became a science communicator. I’m still in touch with […]
Osnat Katz Moon 