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[🔗 Be Kind]weidok.al/2026/02/1…

Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.

💬 Haruki Murakami

Have to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G ..

It will eventually start getting scared of words.

That said - I know I have been guilty of this … no pain intended - I thought I was helping.

Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution …

🔗 Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can’t Work

.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago.

🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om

So what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-handedly shift the trajectory of your most important product bet. I mean, Zuck has been paying a lot more for far less sexy hires. Sam must have had to match whatever Zuck was dangling, right?

I suspect that the ‘nine figures’ doesn’t include the numbers after the decimal point.

🔗 Scripting News: New RSS feature from Manton

Brilliant .. and just tested … it works for us all .. I feel a new mod to my blog navigation coming on.

Thankyou for the heads up @dave

Thankyou for doing the work @manton

🔗 Dancing with Your Default Mode

🔗 NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com

It’s a tool specifically for people documenting or blogging about apps (though anybody might get a kick out of it).

Paging @amerpie

🔗 A quote from Eric Meyer

It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.

🔗 Better vs. done

Ship an update every day. Learn from what works, relentlessly improve what doesn’t.

🔗 The empire always falls

But companies destroy themselves and empires rot from within, and the people living inside these systems almost never see the collapse coming, because the system itself is the lens through which they view the world.

(A fish doesn’t think “it’s wet in here”)

Joan is mainly writing about AI - but just as important to a 2026 America.

🔗 Followup on the future of AI

Nobody knows anything.

@AndySylvester - coincidentally something i was chatting about just this morning. Our conclusion: If you know nothing - you will never be able to properly use AI.

BUT - as we all know - everybody does know something. In fact likely A LOT - about something - and that no matter how narrow the topic - the depth can be - is - always extraordinary.

Once you have your niche - you are in a position to ask the right questions and understand the answers.

It all fails when you don’t ask questions and don’t understand the answers.