In a world full of Allbirdses, strive to be an Ajinomoto.
— Matt Levine, "Money Stuff: Opting Out of the AI Boom"
Unironically a jam:
🔗 Myles' update for this month is so delightful.
when we went to take pictures after, my dad took several of a duck
Amazing.
Colleague: how are you so quick on the [Slack] responses!
Me: Misspent youth on AIM, probably
Just published this month's update: https://blog.joewoods.dev/updates/may-2026/
via the Rands Leadership Slack:
LLMs are a multiplier. And if something was a net -1 for your team it's now a -10. It's a lot easier for a team to absorb -1.
“The symmetry is in the structure, not the object” — my mother-in-law casually dropping true poetry while describing built-in shelves
Published today's newsletters:
- All four calendar.city event roundups
- This Week in Raycast
🔗 "Update May 2026" by Grayson McClellan
This Man/Woman/Chainsaw record is almost-certainly going to end up being my album of the year; all of the tracks here rule.
I typically keep a log of most of the things I accomplish every day, but this habit has really fallen off lately; my log for this past week is essentially empty.
(I still did things — I've had 70 GitHub contributions so far this week — I just didn't manually write any of it down.)
This month's "new music this month" playlist is going to be good. 🙂
At an Antique Mall in Richmond, Virginia; considering buying this copy of The Glass Castle that belongs to the St. Louis County Library and mailing it back to them
🔗 “A long, strange, epic trip” by Tom Woodward
Wild ride — and excellent photos.
HN: Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
Better this than the Bot Company, which has been apparently renting out AirBnBs for robot testing and leaving them trashed: https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testing-robots-airbnbs-trashing-lawsuit-claims/
fmbb:
Seems like there is some synergy to be found here!
🔗 https://claude.com/blog/using-claude-code-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-html
Probably won’t incorporate this wholesale, but definitely going to pull this more into my workflow.
(via rjbs)
As Tall As Lions were so ahead of their time.
M ordered a washer/dryer set from a national chain in her account. When she went over to the new house to receive delivery this morning, the dryer was damaged in transit. She got in contact with the store about it. The store somehow found my number and tried to call me about it, even though M’s the one that’s been handling all of this. hmmmmmmmm