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Ali Hazelwood

Yes, it's Human-Were hybrid soft porn. Yes, Serena Paris is stuck in the "he's dangerous, he's Alpha, but I love him so it's okay" trope. Still, I ate it up.

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New Favorite Thing

Glocusent Reading Light

I didn’t really need a booklight — I read on my Kobo at night. But I love this so much, I make excuses to read paper books.

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Living in Information

Jorge Arango

Knowledge flow is the integration of multiple ways of shaping and structuring the world and the work. I love reading across boundaries to learn how to architect it.

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Information environments create contexts that influence our behavior and actions.

— Jorge Arango
Currently building

This app! Also, a Next.js app called Workbench to retrieve and coalesce resources, author summaries, and assets for Knowledge Flow.

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Worth Watching

Silo (Season 3)

Silo, the next season. I wish they’d hurry up and get her memory back so the story can move forward. I also can’t remember if this was in the books.

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At Home

The Joy Room is currently occupied by two dogs, one cat, a World Cup, and a husband wearing an England shirt while clutching a Spain shirt. I'm cheering for whichever team is expected to lose.

Coffee mugs in my cabinet

  • Matching pairs for the mornings Dom and I spend together
  • A “stolen” NYTs mug I took from the office
  • “Work hard in silence and let success be your noise” that I choose on the mornings I need a reminder
  • A Cheryl Straid quote: Write Like a Motherfucker
  • A gift from my beloved daughter in law
  • A yellow library checkout card from the MET
  • My favorite: Good Morning Sunshine (a family joke about me being an annoying morning person)
Worthwhile

Is Software Engineering Having a "Raft Moment"?

One of the best pieces I've read recently about AI and software engineering. It argues that the important question isn't which practices survive, but why we adopted them in the first place—and whether we're carrying the raft after we've already crossed the river.

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Yes, it's Human-Were hybrid soft porn. Yes, Serena Paris is stuck in the "he's dangerous, he's Alpha, but I love him so it's okay" trope. Still, I ate it up.

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Recent Companions

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The Matrix

In the 22nd century, Thomas Anderson, nickname Neo, is a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

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We Chase Shadows

At sunrise on the steps of a private Italian villa, a body is discovered, bearing a threatening note. Thus begins another globe-trotting, page-turning, snarkfest installment in Osman’s We Solve Murders series.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

The first of a Hugo Award winner for Best Series. Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—discovering the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe.

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That’s What AI Said

"...You are the zombie fucking apocalypse."

Well.

That's certainly a performance review.

Underlined & remembered

What stayed with me

Amy knows she isn’t stupid, but nobody wanted to hear what she had to say when she was growing up, and she hasn’t managed to pick the skill up since. — Richard Osman

Richard Osman · We Chase Shadows

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