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• My New Substack Policy

Latest Blog Posts

• Setting Some Side-Project Priorities
• Going to Give a Local Sci-Fi Book Club a Try
• Playing Goalie Against More Skilled Players
• April 2026 Check-In
• Knowing a Lockout is Coming Makes the Current Phillies Season Even Worse

Latest Week Notes

• Week Notes for May 4 - 9 (#98)
• Week Notes for April 26 - May 3 (#97)
• Week Notes for April 19 - 25 (#96)

Latest Reading Logs

• Reading Log - May 11, 2026 (#171)
• Reading Log - May 4, 2026 (#170)
• Reading Log - April 27, 2026 (#169)

Latest Notes

• The UX Designer’s Nightmare: When “Production-Ready” Becomes A Design Deliverable
• Google’s Prompt API
• Lazy and Prompt
• We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification
• Why We Fly

Latest Book Notes

• Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State by Byron Tau
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly