Joseph Jude

There are low cost LLM models are coming out (even from ops point of view). What kind of impact these will have on blogging, websites?

My notes from @simonw's approach to running a link blog: • a link blog is a low stake, high value writing • Include names of the people • Highlight a key idea; provide extra context; tie it with similar ideas

Tons of AI models and tools are coming out leading to paradox of choice. I apply the same rule as I have done in selecting tools: stick to what you have unless new one improves at least by 2x. Unless you are an analyst in this domain you don’t gain much by keep switching

In an era where knowledge is ubiquitous and can be synthesized by LLM agents quickly, what will differentiate you and your company? My bet: • distribution • speed of execution What do you think?

The pressure for profits & productivity will ruin GenAI based coding. Like OSS movement. OSS was truly a liberating one for those who loved coding. You can read code written by genius programmers. But the world at large saw it just as free software for paid software.

Recently we visited a resort in southern tip of India surrounded by a lake and western ghat. We loved our stay there. Here is an account of our 2 days stay:

Installed Open WebUI (following this instruction: ). First local model UI that works without any problem for me. Hope to play around with it more

I am using GenAI tools (chatgpt, windsurf, WhatsApp AI) for everything I do: • rewrite blog posts in conversational tone • fine tune blog posts for SEO • questions on Biblical passages I am publishing all those prompts here:

Most of us chase goals like dogs chasing cars. We chase because it is shiny We have no idea if we will get them We don’t know what we will do with them even if we get them

Trending posts this week: • Employee to Solopreneur: • Review of 2024: • Three Types Of Goals You Should Set: • Writing my obituary:

2025 Week Notes So glad to start the year with momentum. Able to do so much in just 4 days. Obsidian + 11ty + Windsurf is an super duper combination for blogging. Read full notes here:

Surprisingly after I canceled X premium I got more engagements 🤷‍♂️

Been using chatgpt to analyse stock investments. Doing that for the past 6 months at the end of every month Gotten good inputs so far. Today it made an error in adding a column. If it wasn’t for such huge numbers I wouldn’t have noticed it. Would I trust it again?

Integrated Plausible & 11ty to show popular posts on my homepage. If you go and scroll down you will see these posts. Steps to do that: • call plausible api • create 11ty collection • loop through posts to get title • display the posts in template

Been checking out indieweb to implement web mention. So much of good work done for free in the interest of open web. God bless those. They make the Internet what it is.

Have any of you had success with Msty / GPT4all / open-webui ? Been trying these apps to run local models. None of them give any reasonably good output. Nowhere near outputs generated by chatgpt / cursor / windsurf etc. What am I missing?

To build a flourishing life you need: • knowledge • depth of insight • discernment of the best 📚Everyone has access to knowledge 💡Be a multi-disciplinary thinker to see insights specific to your situation ⚒️don’t stop there. Do it.

Want to have a fulfilling 2025? Write your obituary. You might say, gosh, what an inauspicious thing to say. Hear me out. There is no better tool available than writing your obituary. I wrote one 18 years back and it changed how I live.

Don’t live on borrowed wisdom Build your own How? Learn Do Reflect Ask questions Repeat what you do (only better) Iterate AI can’t beat a man who earned his wisdom

Pursuit of mastery in any domain will make you a multi-disciplinary thinker & doer. Ex: Investing in stocks: diff industries; management styles; understanding numbers … Indie maker: product design, market research, copywriting, sales … Pursue mastery

Do you think more Indian parents will choose homeschooling?

Been using cursor & windsurf for coding. They get you to 70% very quickly. Then it plateaus. Adding complex logic to an exiting code base is almost impossible with these. If anything these tools will increase demands for good programmers.

Whenever I research on a concept I read with view to benefit personally from it. Not for writing a post or a paper out of it. So I don't store all the references. But when I benefit from the concept, I want to write but I don't have the references. Do you face this issue?

First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil. - Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Have a working 2015 Mac Book Pro. Looks like many of the latest software won’t work in it. Should I continue to use MacOS with whatever works or shud I switch to Linux?

Was feeling low that taxes are high in India and lot of HNIs are leaving India. Then came across this video: Apparently things are so bad in the UK that HNs there are leaving too. Now don't feel so sad.

Mom used to say, whatever you do on Jan 1st will echo through the year. What I did on Jan 1st. • started the day in church • wrote a commonplace note: • went out for lunch with family • attended a tax planning session Momentum gets momentum

Hearing many HNIs are moving to Dubai, mainly for tax benefits. Everyone I've spoken to there say that they all live much better than what they were in India. Most HNIs have moved out. Govt keep taxing whoever are left out.

Attended a tax planning session. I learnt: • too many changes coming too fast that even tax planners can't keep track • skip tax planning if you can't pay hefty to tax planners • no one dares to say it out loud: Indians are taxed like Europeans and get benefits like Afghans

Slowly rebuilding my website using 11ty. It is a pleasure to work with. Windsurf IDE helps me most. When it fails, 11ty discord community support is awesome. Now site fetches stats from Plausible and adds both popular and trending posts. Doesn't it look cool?

Rather paradoxical tip for career building: • early in your career say yes to everything • late in career say no more But we flip this Early on we don’t feel confident so we say no more (self-reject) Later we think we have ability and we say yes often

Looks like RTFM is even more valid in the GenAI coding days.

New year gift came in early. @SejalSud sent me this heart-warming note in such a beautiful handwriting. Thank you Sejal.

My question: what is the difference between llama3.2 and llama3.2 instruct I asked two LLMs: locally running llama3.2B instruct. Answers are so varied. Tell me which one is closer to relying for learning?

My week notes for the 52nd week Sister & family drove all the way from Bangalore. Looks like Indian infra (roads, cars, other ecosystem) is allowing many people to take such long trips. Trying my hands on using LLMs to improve my blog. You will see more posts in the future.

We can compare talent migration from other countries if the reasons are similar (if not same). Did talent from Korea/Taiwan/Japan migrate because of babu raj, tough-doing-business, corruption? If so the argument is valid. Otherwise ...

Burn the house to catch the mouse. No attempt to curb bribe (arrest all those IAS officers who amassed wealth -> will lead to leaking info about politicians ....). But constrain everyone else with all these stupid actions.

Want to transition from employee to successful solopreneur? Here's what I learned from my journey of becoming a solo consultant in India 🧵 1/6

Want to write ld+json schema for my blog. Copied Person schema from and tried validating from: Validation fails.

As long they attack the other it is good When they attack me, oh my god, how can they do this? History repeats all the time. Just that idiots don't learn.

Wanted to test running local llm models for fine-tuning my blog for SEO and writing twitter threads. Tried both & Both were disappointing 👇

Microsoft does what it does best. It is offering GitHub copilot for free now that cursor and windsurf are rising in popularity among devs. Same tactic they used to gain market share from PowerBuilder

The irony of life is the thing you chase elude you but when you stop chasing you get it; in fact more of it. True for • happiness • money • love • fame Why is that?

Shared a thread / post on "Setting three types of goals" on LinkedIn, Bluesky, Twitter, and Threads. LinkedIn sent the most traffic. Thread sent 1 Bsky & Twitter didn't send any Lot of engagement on bsky/twitter/LI Will continue to experiment in the coming days

Started reading "The Courage To Be Disliked " Hooked to the book. Reading whenever I have time (sometimes making time while waiting etc). Really loving it. Get it here:

2024 in review: A year guided by the principle "Snowballs, Not Slot Machines" 🏔️ Small, consistent efforts compound into meaningful momentum. Here's how it played out... 1/11

I am afraid India lost her last philosopher-king

In pursuit of minimalism been trying to cut down on apps I use. Looks like I have to use multiple apps even for note taking. I love both obsidian & logseq and can’t seem to reconcile into just one

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong." - Dr. Thomas Fuller

I disagree. Much more easier to unite public towards a cause than uniting / fixing politicians. If SK doesn't piss off Trump & team and knows how to work with egoistic team (which I'm sure he knows), he will get this done even if public doesn't like. Other way doesn't work