"Do you even talk to real people anymore?"
Actually, human connection matters more than ever (AI just filtered out the noise).
The true magic of AI is breaking past our old limitations. Because of it, I'm now doing things I only dreamed of:
Coding my own apps (instead of relying on others)
Writing books in English (instead of just my native language)
Crafting fiction (instead of just non-fiction)
AI opened the cage. The only question is: where do you want to fly?
Power keeps the control. It gives away the blame.
From the ancient scapegoat to "the algorithm did it," my new book No One Did It names the move — responsibility laundering — and hands you the diagnostic to walk any laundered case back to a name.
amazon.com/dp/B0H3GDDL6H
Made a little typing practice app for the kids. They love it... What they don’t realize is that it’s not the app they love — it’s the clickety-clack of the keyboard. type.review
The Half Second is out today.
The book is about the gap between what happens to you and what you do next — the place willpower never reached, and where identity quietly does the work.
Years in.
amazon.com/dp/B0H1TKTMDD
If you’re a heavy Claude user like me, you probably feel this pain: * Switching between multiple accounts is a headache (CLI/desktop). * The 5h/7d limits are hard to track. * Can’t easily use third-party models.
Rename a project? Tons of “skills”… but which ones actually work? So I built ClauDepot. It’s still rough, but it works well enough for me. 👉 github.com/xiaolai/claudepot… (alpha v0.0.10)
github.com/xiaolai/north-sta…
A 260-token system prompt that overrides three structural presumptions every RLHF-trained instruction-tuned LLM inherits from training: that you want confirmation, that old scarcity still applies, and that best practices are ceilings.
The argument: lixiaolai.com/articles/2026-…
The Claude Agent SDK is pre-1.0 (v0.2.x) — APIs break frequently, functions get renamed, parameters change. A static skill would teach Claude outdated patterns that produce broken code. The pipeline keeps this skill accurate by tracking version bumps, researching new issues, and updating rules daily. Without it, advice written for v0.2.30 silently becomes wrong when the SDK moves to v0.3.0. So I've written this: github.com/xiaolai/claude-ag…
While willpower is unreliable for behavior change, selftalking uses short scripts, carefully crafted (10 principles), spoken in our own voices with heavy repetition, to reshape our first reactions across contexts, rooted in the default network (System 1) and its familiarity heuristic. Against the pull of spin doctors, Selftalking restores our control and our freedom through a quiet identity shift that enables real progress.
Claude wrote shitty codes, and then tried to cheat ESLint: `// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any`
Have to curse at it: Is this some lazy-ass fucking hack? Ain't there tighter, balls-to-the-wall better ways? Get your shit together and think like a goddamn genius—no half-assed bullshit, no pussy shortcuts!
A few days ago, I started writing a Chrome/Edge browser extension (github.com/xiaolai/insidebar…) to solve some of my own pain points — for example, avoiding the hassle of switching between tabs, saving myself hundreds of mouse or touchpad clicks a day, and cutting down on countless copy-paste operations. Most importantly, it gives me a single place to store and search through important chat logs. (Too bad publishing this kind of extension to the store is such a pain.)
With Claude-Code, I revived a little domain-search tool I had loved years ago but that had since disappeared — impossibility.org. It only took me one day. Then I thought: why not just buy the domain and bring it fully back to life? So I did.
Beautiful, Eloquent & Classic: The Arithmetic of Active Management web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/a…
Asking o3 is better than reading news:
In clear, well-sourced language, estimate the likelihood that the City of Los Angeles (and the State of California, if relevant) will ultimately prevail in their current federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s order to deploy National Guard troops in L.A.
Guidelines for your answer
1. Define “prevail.” Specify whether you mean a final district-court judgment, Ninth-Circuit affirmation, or a Supreme-Court ruling that leaves the injunction in place.
2. Explain your probability method. State the model, data, or historical benchmarks you use and include a quantitative range (e.g., “60-75 %”).
3. Break down key legal issues (statutory authority under 10 U.S.C. § 12406, Tenth-Amendment arguments, Posse Comitatus concerns, etc.) and how each affects the odds.
4. Cite at least three reputable sources—court documents, scholarly articles, or leading legal-analysis sites—with inline citations.
5. Present the result in a concise executive summary followed by a structured explanation (tables or bullets are fine).
6. Note any major events that could quickly change the forecast (e.g., Trump invoking the Insurrection Act or the Supreme Court fast-tracking review).
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