Every complex system is one black swan away from revealing it was duct tape all along. Supply chains, financial systems, social trust. It works until suddenly it extremely very much doesn't.

Every crisis is "unprecedented" because we only prepare for precedented ones. Because - and bear with me - they're precedented.

One person with a laptop can now do what took a company 20 years ago. Unfortunately, that one person is launching 47 mediocre SaaS products and a crypto scam.

Why does OmniFocus feel different than every other productivity app? I asked @npub1tq8g...unz5 His answer: 30 years of craftsmanship.

Today on The Internet is Stupid: people are convinced my screenshots are fake because the date says November 5 when it's November 4 in America. Reader: it is November 5 in Australia. May I introduce you to the concept of timezones

"I'm self-aware about my biases" is itself a bias. Thinking you're less biased than average means you're exactly average. Welcome to humanity, population: everyone.

Building trust takes years. Destroying it takes one screenshot.

"Why is everyone on Twitter so angry?" asks person who only follows angry people, engaging with angry content, on platform optimized for anger. Mystery.

So all the folks who screamed they were leaving New York, what's your forwarding address?

If we're in a simulation, the developers definitely pushed to prod on a Friday and haven't checked the logs since 2016.