Stu Chuang Matthews @fourmajor@qoto.org

Roasting coffee is a quite unpleasant smell.

If I started my own (tech) company one day, which I probably won't, but you never know, here's a few radical ideas I think I might implement:
1. Company is not allowed to grow to more than 30 employees/contractors.
2. Company has a $0 marketing budget.
3. There are no dedicated sales people.
4. As part of (3), this necessitates everyone having a "backup" role that is not closely related to their primary role. This helps reduce the bus factor, helps people have a more holistic understanding of the business, and allows for vacation and sickness to not overwhelm part of the company.
5. Everyone takes periodic turns in support and operations, even for just a few hours per month.
6. Radical compassionate accountability.

Great article talking about the positive transformation coming to the world over the next 25 years. https://bigthink.com/progress/the-great-progression-peter-leyden/

When I retire one day one of my main hobbies will be cooking extravagant meals for my family and also hosting lots of dinner parties.

Any Mastodon experts know why when I search https://qoto.org/web/search for https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan it shows up empty?

Right into my veins. One of my favorite players of all time, John Wall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAC-1BSY3vQ

February: the month of waiting

I like it when the first thing my audiobook says to me is a threat of prison before they get to the story.

Quite an interesting report. Gets you thinking about the near future of technology. Some quite big ideas coming down the pipe indeed. https://research.ark-invest.com/hubfs/1_Download_Files_ARK-Invest/Big_Ideas/ARK%20Invest_013123_Presentation_Big%20Ideas%202023_Final.pdf

Am I working? Of course I'm working. I'm watching influxdb start.

Just realized that Frodo and Sam got all the way to the Black Gate of Mordor 25% of the way through the second movie.

Mikey Musumeci is a joy to watch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikey_Musumeci

"Unlimited PTO is a scam" is one of the laziest takes I've seen.

OMAD is a helluva drug

Generation Alpha: that's a new term for me. Evidently it is the generation that came after Gen Z.

song of the day of the night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c_emNJ3wIQ
Fear Factory: Securitron - Police State 2000

Giving Bing a try. I want to see how the search results hold up against Google, and then see how that changes once they start integrating OpenAI stuff into search.

Next to the Crocker art museum in Sacramento

Did you know that:
1) Any California resident can become a member of the Sacramento library?
2) Members of the Sacramento library can get free 72-hour passes to the New York Times? Among many other benefits, of course. I timed it: it takes 30 seconds to log in to your library account and activate your 72-hour pass.

It makes me unbearably happy that my daughter got to meet princesses at Disneyland. I'm not crying, you're crying.