Thomas Frank

A major problem with using LLMs to learn things: Me: "A is true, therefore B is false, right?" LLM: "Right! Here's a ton of detail to confirm your belief." Me: "Actually, A is false; B is true." LLM: "Exactly right! Here's more detail to confirm that belief."

A lot of content is made by extremely online people, who observe the behavior of other extremely online people and assume that's how everyone is. It's very easy to let your worldview be shaped by a small number of people who are very good at getting attention on phones

I want to start a Midwest emo band and call the first album Munchies at Menards

I am so disappointed that the song Evanescence made for the Devil May Cry Netflix series does not contain the lyric, "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with light"

I think Pantheon might be my favorite show now. It's grounded, relatable, yet packed with a ton of heady ideas and tech. It's easy to rewatch and really rewards doing so. Light on action, and good when it happens. Probably my strongest recommendation right now if you like sci-fi.

425lb x 5 today. 500 feels so close I can taste it.

Yes, @thomasjfrank.com is the All-Knowing-Super-Senpai-Druid-YouTube-King-Yap-CEO

I need to paste the same links a lot – so I built a Keyboard Maestro macro that lets me bring up a list of them. It's like TextExpander, but I can also apply transformations: - Prepend "https://" - Paste in all caps (useful for text layers in video edits)

Native time-tracking in @notion.com This setup lets you track multiple sessions per task, and shows the total time you've worked across all of them.

Audio nerds: Anyone using a DBX 286s in your mic chain? I'm wondering if adding one would help me eliminate the need for any audio processing in post when editing my videos.

Been thinking a lot about this lately: Electricity wasn't immediately all that useful to businesses when it was invented. It took a big shift in production processes to make it worth adopting.

I love a good chart, so I've added a daily page-count chart to my @notion.com reading tracker:

Dictation tools are getting really good. I've been dealing with RSI issues in my hands, so about 75% of my "typing" is done with voice right now. In testing, my "typing speed" is often around 195 wpm 😄

I noticed a lot of "Creator Economy" folks signing up (@jay.blog, @thomasjfrank.com, @charlimarie.bsky.social, @corydhmiller.bsky.social) so I made a starter pack just for them: go.bsky.app/9ySNSd9

I love #Notion and because of @thomasjfrank.com I've been lost in the new Layouts features of hours now. youtu.be/qEggFZKOPb4?...

Pretty sure I've got recurring tasks fully solved in Notion. Fully automated, native (no third-party apps needed), with a record of each time you've finished the task. Video coming this week. I'm pumped.

The automations iceberg: Zapier (easy, mostly no-code) ⬇️ Make (more complex no-code tools) ⬇️ Pipedream (code-first + npm packages) ⬇️ Cloudflare Workers (all code, built-in databases) Is there an even deeper level?

Here's a little look at some advanced Notion data capture you can do with Flylighter, our Notion web clipper! Notably, our highlighting tool can handle funky stuff, like HTML tables and code blocks. Notion displays them just as you'd expect.

Go vote!

Cloudflare Workers are awesome. I have a use case where I need to handle hundreds of webhook requests a day, which comes out to... free 😄

I just tried out MacWhisper's dictation mode for the first time. Essentially, you hold down the Command key on your keyboard and talk for as long as you want. Then, you get a pretty much perfect transcription. This is really, really cool.

This seems like a good place to store all my passwords