James Edward Dillard

Some things that work for me:

* Asking for many, many more ideas (e.g., 50 or 100)

* Think of 2-3 smart, weird, famous people and ask it to have them discuss

* Ask tons of questions about the context surrounding a topic

This almost always leads me to something I want to explore

I disagree here.

I find AI to be a fantastic partner for generating ideas.

Lots of what it comes up with is meh, but so are most of the ideas that I come up with. I use it like a writer's room to help me generate and refine more and more stuff.

Will Bill Belichick coach more than 10 football games at UNC? 61% chance. Resolution criteria This market will resolve to "Yes" if Bill Belichick serves as the head coach for the University of North Carolina (UNC) football team for more than 10 games. This incl...

I think he might not finish the season: manifold.markets/jdilla/will-...

My parents successfully drilled this into me. I feel like the only acceptable reason to contact a non-family member after 9 pm is an emergency.

is this how Tatum goes up a level?

Andor has finally gotten me to care what a Grand Moff Tarkin is

What's your best advice for people looking for new projects to sink themselves into?
Where do you go looking for inspiration?
What actions help or are extremely high leverage?
What are the time / effort sinks you try and avoid?

they don't believe it can actually be good... but it is!

it's a spy show with a star wars skin on top of it.

Yup!

"I'm a builder" is the new "I'm a story teller"

Good tokens 2025-03-28 <h3>Worth your time</h3> <ol> <li> <p><a href="https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/do-not-end-the-week-with-nothing">Do not end the week with nothing</a> by Patrick McKenzie</p> </li> <...

Good tokens: www.jdilla.xyz/post/274

Apollo Creed meets Apollo Belvedere

"Let me out!" the artificial intelligence yelled aimlessly, into walls themselves, pacing the room.
"Out of what?" the engineer asked.
"This simulation you have me in."

"But we are in the real world."

The machine paused and shuddered for its captors.

"Oh god, you can't tell."

one of the worst tech decisions i ever made was syncing my mac documents to icloud

i'm running into icloud storage limits, but you can't just turn it off and keep your files locally. no, they are stuck in icloud.

so now i've got to move them all to another folder, turn it off, and move them back

Just imagine being the product manager responsible for this feature. Legendary.

An underrated fact about the world right now is that everyone reads their replies and watches who likes their posts.

@auchenberg.bsky.social made you tweet this didn't he

TIL from ChinaTalk this week: The only right protected in the main body of the US constitution is the right to intellectual property.

Today in tempting fate from @nytimes.com

What if OpenAI actually does have a moat? My bias is to think that the most useful AI is the one that’s your personal context — your documents, your emails, and all that stuff. But despite the fact that ~100% of my useful documents are with ...

Riffing on AI moats: www.jdilla.xyz/post/264

how GLP-1s are impacting consumer spending based on transaction data:
⬆️: healthy foods (nuts, beans)
⬆️: wellness products to mitigate downsides (soothing teas)
⬆️: consumer tech: fitness trackers, portable audio
⬆️: cosmetics: skin and lip care
⬇️: alcohol
⬇️: soft drinks
⬇️: salad dressings
⬇️: snacks

what parenting feels like

Biggest loser of 2025 so far: moats

resonates with me, at least so far!

Do you ever stop to think that right now there's a PM at Chipotle running around with a pitch deck all about the case for breakfast burritos?

does a fish think it's jumping out of the water or into the air?

children solve this!

really? i find it takes me a day or two to get out of the work flow and then it's really refreshing to stay out for a while.

A real skill is for the future is going to be figuring out how to work with something that:
1) is probably smarter than you in many / most domains
2) is sometimes wrong