David Fackler

Marketing is a way to activate the powerful placebo effect. Consider “Chamomile Tea” vs “Sleepy Time Tea”. Same ingredients but if you believe one will make you sleepy then it will work more effectively.

I don’t need a second coffee, but by god am I going to have one

Bluesky is inherently getting rid of the right wing toxicity - how can I adjust my feed to get rid of the left wing toxicity as well?

The most successful business person I know started on the auction house in world of Warcraft. Who says video games aren’t valuable?

I signed up to some data starter packs initially and loved my feed. Then joined a culture and politics one. Realizing I really don’t like political social media - whether right or left. Back to data and tech!

I hope you never have to make a Gantt chart timeline. If you do - ask Claude to code you Mermaid code and run it on mermaid.live.

Sometimes my wheel builds in seconds - sometimes my wheel builds in hours. One day I’ll know what a wheel is.

Interesting how most people snub a computer science PhD but admire an AI, statistics, or data science PhD. Curious the slight difference in use cases for pure CS vs slightly more applied math domains.

Question: Is there any social obligation to respond to a message from a real person that was clearly written purely by AI? It is masked by the address of a person you would typically give a social obligation towards. But the actual message is from a machine I care nothing for.

“The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction” - Eckhart Tolle

We are getting the keys to our first house today!!