Let’s get Person-al
https://person-al.github.ioA personal blog with posts spanning book and movie reviews, technology projects, and commentary on social and political topics.
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It is impossible to simply enjoy something on its own. Anything relevant will be made viral, then made unpopular agai...
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As a software engineer, LLM-use is non-negotiable at work. When I wrote 🌰 loot boxes, casinos, and work chat, Slack w...
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We’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity: the pervasive hovering cameras that are always ...
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[Macklemore is] the hottest act there is right now, but you’d never know it from looking at his popularity on Spotify...
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From Mike Posner’s weekly newsletter:
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Excerpts from The Perpetual Present Tense:
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Note: this review contains spoilers What Worked the themes the curse of fame, the complicity of the public in that cu...
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“Focus on the work, not your attachment to it.”
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Note: This review contains spoilers What Worked Brandon Sanderson is known for his inventive world building and this ...
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This idea has been rattling around my brain for a while, but I’ve struggled to put it into words (though I did my bes...
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Note: this review contains spoilers.
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As The New York Times’ Jon Caramanica said recently (on a livestream, it should be noted), “The gap between ‘I’m a co...
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I listened to the audiobooks for the first two books, highly recommend! I enjoyed them both! I tried to write a short...
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But if Mandy was a fairy, why was Mother dead? “You’re not a fairy.” “Why not?” “If you were, you would have saved he...
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On the one hand: I was up until 3am devouring this book. I wanted to feel the feels that a romance book is designed t...
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harrowing interesting how she stayed in present tense and present-mind the whole time. It kept the book fresh, in a w...
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Self-driving cars where instead of getting a driver’s license and calling AAA to help with a flat tire, you’re instea...
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I think we forget sometimes that it’s not that machines can do everything– it’s that we left behind anything they cou...
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Note: this review contains spoilers.
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Note: This review makes it easy to avoid spoilers.