Today’s episode of Decoder is worth a read/watch/listen.
How has it been a year already?
My mom died a year ago today. It’s unbelievable that it’s been a year, but if I’m being honest, it felt like she was kind of gone long before she died. She had Parkinson’s for years. What an insidious and cruel disease. It was even worse for her because of how bright she was. Had she not stopped practicing psychologoy because of Parkinson’s, I’m certain she would have probably never retired. She was such a good listener and I loved her dark sense of humor. My sister told her to send us ladybugs as signs and let me tell you, we all see ladybugs all the time! On my first business trip after she died, a ladybug landed on me IN A PLANE! We all see them everywhere, which is so wonderful. I wish she was still here, but not siffering the way she did from Parkinson’s and dementia. I was so lucky to have her as my mom.
Robert, Angie, Shayna and I hiked Bronson Canyon on Saturday. Too many people with speakers, but some great views of the city and the Hollywood sign. I took the first two photos and Shayna snapped the other one.
Ai-generated punk songs from daughter’s texts to her mom. The whole family was crying.
I too believe headless is going to be a thing (it already is for me).
It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way they can see the docs that you can see, and use the tools that you can use, and so what they want is not APIs (which connect webservers) but little apps they can use directly. CLI tools are the perfect little apps.
From Matt Webb’s latest post, Headless everything for personal AI.
I put up a Birdbuddy in our front yard this weekend. The most difficult part was figuring out where to put it, mostly to avoid squirrels, but I feel like that’s a nearly impossible task.
I’ve had this strong sense we’re nearing a point where physical media and local digital media are going to make a much bigger comeback than anyone expected. There’s going to be lots of talk about local everything. We’re seeing the beginnings of it now.
Praise the Internet gods. You can turn YouTube Shorts off!
We watched a few Coachella Couchella performances with the kids over the weekend. I ended up watching the Nine Inch Noize performance before bed last night and WOW! The production was absolutely stunning and the performance is, perhaps, one of the best in Coachella history.