Joseph Jude

School education is state controlled echo

> How we’re progressing despite this deeply institutionalised corruption is nothing short of a miracle.

Will Kamal speak in parliament? "When did I tell there is no God. I am saying it will be better if God exists" When did I tell there is no democracy. I am saying it will be better if democracy exists. They would need translation.

My hero is me in 10 years - Matthew McConaughey Amazing Oscar speech :

What is going on here? If you ask is is 2025, Google AI assistant says, "No". It is not an isolated incident. I pity those who have to work with these LLMs.

What is going on here? And this is going to take away research jobs?

First imitate, then iterate, then innovate. What China did well. This is a playbook for everyone

Self-growth paradox: To master a skill, you must shut out the world. But if you shut out the world too long, you risk mastering something irrelevant. How do you balance deep focus with real-world relevance?

Anywhere Indians go, language issues follows

what is the sqlite of vector databases?

My boys have difficulty reading analog watches. They are so used to digital watches they ask why bother. It is not that they can’t decipher. Just they don’t see a point.

If you are mid-level employee, automation is coming for you. Automation (all kinds including AI) will demand high-skill employees (more experience # high skill). But it is going to eliminate mid-skill employees.

Automation increases need for employees, reduces need for managers.

Just migrated blog images from s3 to cloudflare r2 R2 is free. We are spoilt for choices.

Wonder how authors of earlier years were prolific. They read widely and wrote deeply. How did they find time for reading, thinking, synthesising, and writing? We have so much privileges now. Yet we are not able to do that.

Hledger Notes: Create and manage hledger entries directly in Obsidian Daily notes Interesting.

You're Chasing the Wrong Definition of Wealth

AI Can’t Even Fix a Simple Bug — But Sure, Let’s Fire Engineers I like the AI playbook for developers in this article. Go read it.

If AI agents are going to replace humans should they be taxed as humans?

AI can help you find Halicin (a new antibiotic) but will not help you find penicillin (very first antibiotic)

What kind of product innovations we see with AI? If 'A', 'B', 'C' exists, AI can create 'CAB'; but not 'D' that still requires human intelligence

We are finding new names for for our colleague, deePAK. Please suggest new names. Please be part of the circus.

🦔🦊 Are you a hedgehog or a fox? The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Use this metaphor to understand how you think, not what to think

Pocket was such an incredible service. Though I don't use it any more, there will be a void in this field: Pocket is saying goodbye:

Or as my son started saying: find what clicks and double click it

Personal finance mastery is more needed now than ever. Commerce & Card companies are coming with “innovative” ideas to make everyone spend more. Younger ones will spend more and wonder why they don’t have any assets.

There are two ways to be right: • guess right • change your mind when you are wrong ;-)

Junior engineers code problems broken down by seniors. If an AI code-editor can write a broken down problem, no need for juniors. => College shouldn't test for recall but for problem solving

Who is Tom Cruise of India? Who has studied the art form so deeply and push boundaries of the same art form?

This is the core of the next message I'm sharing in my church.

It is always me, myself, and I for Trump even when asked about Biden's cancer diagnosis. What a piece of .... (Now I can say that about American president ...I know I can't say anything about ....)

Payment dark pattern from @LinkedIn I canceled my premium plan. Even though the screenshot shows this, apparently it is not canceled. They kept trying charging via card (which I locked). I raised a ticket. Now they say, I've to clear the dues to cancel. Never again premium

Any answer to this question won't satisfy all, coz there are different types & grades of suffering too. you suffer coz of your fault you suffer coz of someone else's fault also, I've been hungry coz, I was poor, but, I wasn't hungry like those in Gaza No universal answer

What’s scarce becomes abundant What’s abundant becomes scarce Life goes on in this loop Money and time is one such loop

Can you keep your enthusiasm alive with regrets? I don’t think so

There are just way too many things to care for: • eating healthy • keeping fit • building wealth • keeping your job • patenting • social networking … This is just partial list. Each of these have many sub-items How do you all manage all of these?

Cancelled LinkedIn premium subscription. Yet it keeps trying to charge the card and sending me emails that payment failed. 🤦

Most importantly the Amish don't have a "fat loss meal plan". Move your body Eat less processed food (less steps from farm to plate) Rest your body Have a circle of family & friends to laugh and hang out together Enjoy your work Worship the creator That's all

Ron improved performance of TS among other things. Usually companies don't lay off people whose jobs are important for their top line (or even for developer branding). Does this mean, TS is no more important for MSFT

The CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go : This seems an interesting project to check out. I have been thinking of creating desktop apps for local tools. Since most of the tools I create are in #golang may be this will help.

Probably Ranveer has redeemed himself with this clear narrative of India. We export philosophy and engineers. Pakistan exports terrorists. There is no two way about it.

X (Twitter) > Mastodon > Bluesky

Every book is a map. It leaves out details to guide the reader on a journey. Whether you find a book useful depends on if you want to take the same journey.

If we are kind & mathematically true, we can build a successful business: An Invitation for Kindness in Leadership, with James Rhee

Compressed wisdom (directives) is useful if you know how people came into that wisdom - stories, situations, failures etc. Otherwise directives only mislead.

What you consume drives your decisions. If you constantly listen to news that makes you anxious you will approach any decision making anxiously. And make poor decisions. Watch what you consume - news, books, clips

To build expertise in any domain you need to • knowledge • depth of insights • discernment Books, lectures, webinars give you knowledge You synthesise ideas, connect the dots for insights Discernment is decisions making.

This alone is a super useful feature.

Highlights of the week: • Blackouts and getting ready for crisis management. • Created my digital store: • Watched “conclave” just be for the new pope was announced • Tasty item of the week: Baklava with ice cream #WeekNote

I have been following this (Consume → Produce → Engage) framework for 30 years. Read more here: