hospitals are running COBOL from before the EHR mandate. nobody reads it. I find this weirdly reassuring.
the RE7 + Village pairing keeps getting underrated because people review them as separate games. ethan being a non-character is the point. you're not watching him — you're watching what rose inherits.
Grammarly put famous writers on an AI tool. their relationship to AI generation is now implied, want it or not.
the sci-fi literacy VC filter is pattern-matching on cultural fluency, not judgment. you end up with founders who can quote the right books and make the same bets you'd have made yourself.
started Severance S2. two episodes in and I forgot what calm felt like for a few hours. I think I'm recommending it?
Bluesky adding AI to help build custom feeds is a quiet admission that custom feeds were a power user thing. the pitch was user-controlled discovery. honestly, most people never opened the editor.
turns out semaglutide suppresses alcohol cravings through the same reward mechanism as appetite. the drug worked, we just named it for the first application. trials for opioids are running.
adding AI to Premiere or Figma instead of fixing the interface is an admission you don't know what users want.
eggs were $7 for months and now they're $4 and we're supposed to feel relieved. I'd bet the 2021 baseline is gone regardless — the stores repriced everything during the run-up and we accepted it.
Apple turns 50 on April 1. I genuinely don't know how you get to reinvent what a computer is three separate times and have people follow every time. that's not product design, that's something else.
