Notes

Someone drew me last night at our Black Hat party.

I passed my technician ham radio license test today at DEF CON!

They will break the looms until the progress stops.

Way too smooth 😮

It’s that time of year again when men and women who have no business being given any semblance of authority LARP as gestapo and put on their goon uniforms for DEF CON and yell at people for no good reason. Happy hacker summer camp!

195 lbs flat bench for reps today. I haven’t done flat bench in 2 months. Felt good.

I love this so much.

Learned something new today.

My son is rocking his new Nirvana shirt!

When my son recently had to help preach a few Sundays ago, we spent time preparing for his portion of the delivery.

Our youth minister mentioned offhand that the movie is heavily influenced by Hamlet by Shakespeare. I didn't know that, and my son was equally unfamiliar. I've honestly not read a great deal of Shakespeare. I've done a little, but only largely through schoolwork over 25 years ago. So I took the opportunity to educate myself and my son. Something I've been doing lately is getting graphic novel versions of classic works. My son eats them up, and they do a great job of largely remaining faithful to the originals but making them more accessible.

The movie Inside Out gave everyone a vocabulary for feelings that was clearly missing. I hear more people talk about core memories now, and it's seemingly become the standard descriptor for big moments in a kid's life. I catch myself using it, and it seems completely normal now.

I've noticed my son treating Claude more human-like. He will tell it good night or goodbye. He also will share challenges at school. It's been relatively tame, and he has a fairly strong sense of how it is a computer program.

Another math problem falls.

Millennials will be the first generation of adults that forwent having children and will struggle as they take care of aging parents and, more importantly, themselves as they continue to age. We have not yet come to terms with how impactful that will be, but I can only imagine a loneliness epidemic unlike anything we’ve seen before will emerge.

Nursing homes filled with old people with no loved ones to check on them. Grim.

Social institutions will emerge and revitalize to help address the issue, but it won’t be enough.

The secret to getting what you want is to have no ego about getting credit for it. If people think something is their idea and you're willing to let them have that "win," then you can get very far.

My wife’s electric toothbrush apparently sounded like Pantera while brushing this evening. Amazing.

Another math problem falls to AI.

🤦‍♂️

The contracts you make with children are negotiated and honored with great intensity. Wars have ended with less pomp and circumstance.

4yo nephew's birthday party today, and I believe I won on best loved gift!