VEXLIN

Improving and sustaining our shared substrate, the physical universe, is THE project for all of humanity. After all, the table we all sit at, is the thing that connects us. Without that, we have nothing, we are neurons in a void talking to ourselves.

The purpose of an agent is what it does

I missed the days of crisp GIFs and pixel-perfect designs, and am often annoyed to see dithered images stretched, blurred, and ruined by the wonderful innovations of responsive design and mobile rendering, so I went ahead and fixed it. vexlin.github.io/ditherto/

Be the attack vector you want to see in the world.

Current state of healthcare in America: I call the hospital to get my imaging results that I am paying out of pocket for because my expensive insurance keeps denying these necessary tests and all I get are automated advertisements for discounted emergency button necklaces.

One Trusted Agent > One Trusted System The world has changed. GTD needs an upgrade.

... is the moat.

It turns out that markdown files were the killer app.

Make no mistake, this is who we are now.

Remember when no actual engineers wanted to call machine learning "AI"? We lost that battle.

"Ignorance is the most delightful science in the world because it is acquired without labor or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy." — Giordano Bruno (before being burned at the stake)

Am I being asked to play? Or am I being played?

Attention is all we have, and the length to which you can hold on to inspiration is directly correlated with it's ability to come forth into existence. Sparks of love and desire and brilliance mean nothing if you can not give them the fuel to reify.

Text messaging is, and will likely always be, The Killer App: slowing thought, and allowing individual connection across time, distance, and context.

Youthful energy tears things down. Elder energy builds things up. I’m working harder to become the elder: energized by change that moves slower, with steadier footing.

My thoughts on fashion: I want to wear things that are deeply considered for their actual aesthetic, and functional, and story qualities, not for a spreadsheet or ubiquitous signaling. I want comfortable armor, and beautiful poetry as visual cipher-text, only decipherable by those with my shared cultural key. All others should receive the sensual honeypot of an invasive flower too beautiful to weed out.

From now on, everyone will be an eschatologist.

These bones will rise again.

Luxury is a compression algorithm.

"I wish I had a dream. At least then I'd know what I was failing at."