Many of us had plans today.
Instead we spent all day patching massive security vulnerabilities in our infrastructure.
What happens when you give AI a recording of yourself telling Mitch Hedberg jokes for a minute and a half, in my best voice impression...
And then use that voice to narrate a product feature video?
You get this silliness:
I give the bot a list of bug fixes and throw in a new (necessary) feature to manage the previous built feature.
Bit: “This is a mix of bug fixes and one new feature.”
Me thinking: yeah I know, chop chop.
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As Bible Standard nears release stages, It’s all about polishing and bug fixes.
We want to give you the best experience when using an app. Why do we have to make ugly things? Doesn’t this look good 👀
Chevas A. F. Balloun retweeted
Deploy a thumper boys, then ride it out.
Muad’Dib
We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.
Digital information should not feel like raw jungle forever.
It should become a place with clearings, paths, edges, memory, and order.
That is what Opal is trying to build.
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Search is useful, but it should not be the primary way you retrieve your own work.
Sometimes you only remember where something was, what it was near, or why it mattered.
Digital work needs place, not only search.
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The hard test is not finding yesterday’s note.
The hard test is finding the thing you have not touched in six months.
Spatial memory eliminates the “where did I put that?” smoke break.
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Folders and databases can become a fancy grave for your work.
The more layers you add, the more retrieval depends on memory and search.
Keep important work visible. Keep it on the surface.
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Your brain remembers place.
Digital work should use that instead of fighting it.
Watch: youtube.com/shorts/7RabmtqA5…
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Your brain remembers where things are.
Search is useful, but place is more natural. We do not just ask “what was that called?” We ask “where did I put it?”
That is why Opal starts with a visible workspace.
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Productivity apps keep asking you to remember what something is called.
But your brain remembers where things are.
That is the idea behind Opal: put notes, tasks, links, files, and projects on a big visible desk so work has a place.
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“jake still owns the original bookstore because hallmark cannot handle cap table complexity.”
ROFL
this woman doesn’t need a matchmaker. she needs to accidentally book the wrong airbnb in a mountain town called pine hollow.
it’s december. there’s one coffee shop, one christmas tree farm, & one emotionally unavailable man named jake who owns a struggling bookstore despite somehow having perfect stubble, a golden retriever, & unresolved grief from a fiancee who left him for a private equity guy in denver.
she arrives in a black suv, wearing a cashmere coat, trying to take a “clarity weekend” before interviewing $80k/year matchmakers in nyc.
the town hates her immediately because she asks if they have oat milk.
jake says, “we have milk.”
she says, “from what?”
tension.
then a snowstorm hits. her flight gets canceled. her phone dies. the only place with wifi is jake’s bookstore, which is called “second chances”.
over the next 4 days, she helps him realize the store doesn’t need to close, it just needs a better merchandising strategy, a paid newsletter, & a tasteful espresso machine. he teaches her how to chop firewood, slow down, & pronounce “community” like it isn’t a fund thesis.
by day 5, she has accidentally saved the town’s winter festival.
by day 6, she is wearing flannel.
by day 7, the high end matchmaker calls with “an incredible candidate” who is 42, divorced, skis, runs a family office, says he’s “emotionally available,” lives in tribeca, has 3 phones.
she looks across the bookstore at jake reading to local kids while his dog sleeps under a table.
she says, “i’m going to pass.”
cut to one year later & she has opened a bookstore wine bar called “due diligence.” jake still owns the original bookstore because hallmark cannot handle cap table complexity. she’s pregnant with twins. the golden retriever has a red bow. the matchmaker sends a christmas card.
“turns out the best match was the one not in the database.”
roll credits.


















