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If you’re waiting on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or are still simply mad about Game of Thrones, I highly recommend Episode 4, which brought me to tears.

I kind’a think club music sounds all the same, then Spotify sneaks a new track by OVERWERK in my playlist, and I realize I am quite wrong.

I suspect you are wrong.

I disagree. You gotta have the platform with the data.

Also, scrapppy sort'a suggests that you have some idea that you know what you're doing when it's FULL YOLO WTF. #respect

Hustle is what we call chaos to make it sound fun.

If you're wondering what's up in the markets.

So, Enterprise plays with shipping a good platform, and configuration/API/connector technology will be fine, but their service dollars are going to go way down, along with the disappearance of a lot of jobs. 😬

Enterprise software makes a huge amount of money on services, which are humans who build stuff specific to the customer on the Enterprise platform. Problem is: if you’ve built an OK platform and OK integration, you don’t need those humans anymore — thanks, robots!

Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, we can’t.” Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, but now I will think about it a lot.” The latter sometimes change to Yes delightfully unexpectedly.

Spotify has a “build a playlist with a prompt” feature that does exactly what you think. This mornings: “Create a chronological list of Led Zeppelin hits, but sprinkle some Def Leppard in there ironically.”

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Best article I’ve read on productivity systems in a long while. Humorous, personal, and universally applicable. Highly recommended reading.

I Hate Fish I don't like fish. "But Rands, have you tried…" Yeah, I tried that. I don't like fish. "Wait, wait, wait, what you need to try is…" Tried that, too. A coupl

I am, once again, testing a productivity system. It's going about as well as you'd expect: randsinrepose.com/archives/i-h...

While I am uncertain if normal users will adapt to the chatbot conversational interfaces, I am blown away by how quickly typing sentences to a robot makes every search interface I’ve used my entire life look like a clumsy toy.

Being an engineer means you like fixing broken stuff because it’s an opportunity to learn. (...on our best days)

Sometimes Your Job is to Stay the Hell Out of the Way I wrote a piece a long time ago about The Wolf. It's my personal take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren't a myth. They exist. I've seen them. Many of them. The article was popular. ...

Very often, a manager's job is to know when to do absolutely nothing: randsinrepose.com/archives/som...

Your three day response time to critical communications tells me exactly what I need to know.

Screenshot of a tweet from @PressSec dated 21 Jan 2026, reading as follows: No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is. You’re the only one mixing anything up here.

Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.

You're either getting stuff done or talking about getting stuff done.

I'm Going to Dig a Hole Many, many years ago, at my childhood house in the Santa Cruz mountains, I grabbed a shovel and started to dig a hole. Why? Unclear. I was six or seven. I'd seen what my Dad could do shovel, so one...

No plan, poorly equipped, but enthusiastically digging: randsinrepose.com/archives/im-...

I don’t judge mistakes, I judge reactions.

The robots spend a lot of time telling me things I already know.

Didn’t know Nobel Peace prizes were transferable. Always read the fine print, people.

A productivity truth: you will find less and less signal in every growing list of stuff to do.

The underutilized mind creates unnecessary drama.

Better resumes -- have an objective, tell me what you learned in past gigs, and sound like a human.

Stop explaining what you did. Explain what you are going to do.

Re: the additional Stranger Things episode. Ask yourself: who benefits most from this viral swirl of nonsense? The influencers who are going to their audiences now that Stranger Things is over.

I more I learn to effectively use AI tools, the more I believe the concept of an application is a clumsy, limiting container.