entrepreneur, mentor, technologist, teacher || Americana, roots, blues || founder @nashsoftware
Nashville, TN USA
Joined July 2011
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RIP Dave Mason. Co-founder of Traffic. Had some good albums in the 70s. Was still touring up until a couple of years ago.
We can only hope that @levie is right. I think he is but we'll see. It has been insane IMHO to think that generative AI was going to wipe out demand for more software. There is no shortage of problems to solve.
Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so.
We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences.
And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents.
This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.
RIP Tracy Kidder. His book The Soul of a New Machine is still one of my all time favorite books. Incredibly well written and insightful. And just as relevant in understanding engineers - both hardware and software - today as it was when published.
Tracy Kidder, Author of 'The Soul of a New Machine,' Dies at 80 nytimes.com/2026/03/25/books… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id…)
I’m late with this, but RIP Steve Cropper. An essential part of the soundtrack of my youth - all of that great Stax sound from Booker T & MGs, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and so many more.
RIP Raul Malo. Great voice, great music. Condolences to his family and friends. Cancer claims another one well before their time.
Been a tough few days, first Steve Cropper and now Raul Malo.
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I am getting tired from influencers with little to no tech industry experience to write stupid stuff like this for likes.
As @simonw said:
“Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry thanks to the invention of the table saw.”
Marshall Allen - long (real long) time member of Sun Ra Arkestra - is releasing his first solo album. At the age of 100! That is so awesome. Good antidote against self-pity for being only 70-something. #stilltimeleft
jazzwise.com/news/article/su…
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Intelligence isn't the ability to remember and repeat, like they teach you in school. It is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use our knowledge to adapt to new situations.
RIP Thomas Kurtz. For so many, across a couple of generations, his work helped create the gateway to programming.
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Fantastic work by everyone at @SpaceX - and it worked the first time they tried it! Just outstanding work. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Starship’s fifth flight test lifted off with our most ambitious test objectives yet as we work to demonstrate techniques fundamental to Starship and Super Heavy’s fully and rapidly reusable design.
And on our first try, Mechazilla caught the booster → spacex.com/launches/mission/…
Our friends @conexion_tn have a fundraising event on Saturday in East Nashville. PAELLA BATTLE! Love me some paella, especially when it helps a great local cause!
Meet Chefs Nick, Jamie, and James from Inglewood! With 60+ years of combined cooking expertise, they’re more than just chefs—they're gourmet cooks, dads, and good neighbors. Join them for a sizzling hot paella benefiting the work of Conexión Américas.
conexionamericas.org/paella
It doesn’t look like this tour is coming through Nashville. Too bad, would love to hear @sonnylandreth and the Iguanas. Hopefully @CityWineryNSH will add them to the calendar.
The pristine City Winery in Manhattan hosted the Louisiana Calling tour on Sunday with Sonny Landreth and the Iguanas presenting their swampy, roots-rock, and blues to excited fans. REVIEW:
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I just heard today about the passing of Phil Wiggins. Wonderful blues harmonica player. RIP.
With the passing of Phil Wiggins, we’ve lost a master musician and visionary who gracefully carried traditional blues across the generations.
Read our tribute to a longtime friend and watch Wiggins’s final Folklife Festival performance: s.si.edu/3K8s68A
@Folkways
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