It’s important to remember that each individual listener actually does experience the record in their own way.

Even though the online and streaming mentalities seem to flatten out that individual experience.

It’s important to remember that every individual listener is hearing the record their own way.

-Jason P. Woodbury

Don’t let the promise of scale and mass trick you into thinking you’re talking to a mass.


Two Anthony De Mello quotes:

A village blacksmith found an apprentice willing to work hard at low pay. The smith immediately began his instructions to the lad: “When I take the metal out of the fire, I’ll lay it on the anvil; and when I nod my head you hit it with the hammer.” The apprentice did precisely what he thought he was told. Next day he was the village blacksmith.

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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistake of all-they are attempting nothing new.


We’re not rational decision makers, we’re rationalizing decision makers.

An important fact to keep in mind.
We justify a purchase after—not before—making it.

via Tom Webster / Sounds Profitable


NVIDIA’s new local LLM chatbot seems tailor made to corporate office/knowledge workers

Those with compatible hardware can now install Chat With RTX, an AI chatbot that turns local files into its dataset.

At its core, Chat With RTX is a personal assistant that digs through your documents and notes. It saves you the trouble of manually searching through files you’ve written, downloaded, or received from others.

can also pull transcripts from YouTube videos.

a matter-of-fact tone

No offsite data transfer.
“Chat” with local files.
At the very least, employee onboarding could become easier.


Soft landing? More like slow landing.

CNN spoke with the Atlanta Fed President, who:

is anticipating the nation’s inflation rate — which currently stands at around 3% — will be near “the lower twos” by the end of 2024.

& said

With that outlook, I really see the first move coming sometime in the summertime

Thing is, according to Fed data our current rate environment is more the norm compared to the 0 rate exception the market got used to.

A chart of historic Federal Reserve rates since the 60s showing a much longer period of volatile (and higher rates) than the post-Great Recession 0% rate environment that modern Silicon Valley and stock marketism was built on