2025-11-28 15:08:13
I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! To me, the holiday is a reminder to be grateful. A gratitude practice is one of the most surefire ways to improve your happiness, as this study covered by Harvard Health explains.
I was part of a leadership coaching cohort with other founders and CEOs, and one of our exercises was to have a weekly 15-minute Zoom call where we’d each take turns saying something we were grateful for. (I think the original assignment was 7 minutes, but Parkinson’s law and Google Calendar’s 15-minute default expanded it.) Like most great coaching, it seems silly on the surface, but when you actually practice it with an open mind, something magical happens.
It really grew on me, and while most of the randomly assigned pods of people that had this assignment for a few weeks dispersed, ours has kept it going now for several years beyond the conclusion of the coaching program. The calls are also a great way to stay in touch with people I love, but we might easily fall into our own universes and not keep up with each other. Wherever we are in the world, whatever is happening, this standing meeting is on everyone’s calendar, and while it has ebbs and flows, the flame has been kept alive.
Consider starting your own pod: pick a time, set a standing Zoom room, and see what happens. We do early mornings before most meetings start. I don’t make it every week, but I do more than not, and the weeks when I do are definitely a bit brighter, both in my own gratitude practice and in the connection with the others in the pod.
2025-11-27 15:18:10
We’re celebrating Thanksgiving this year with my sister Charleen in Austin, and it’s no surprise there’s a great Meshtastic community here!
2025-11-26 12:03:20
If you have ever customized your home setup, or done extra work to make the cable just so, it’s impossible not to delight in the very deep rabbit holes this person goes in 3D-printing custom holders for everything in his junk drawer. I’m in awe. It’s an ad for Bambu Lab, but honestly it’s the kind of thing I could watch all day. So satisfying. Scott Yu-Jan is someone to keep an eye on.
To me, this embodies the maker / hacker / creator mentality that I try to imbue in all the software I work on. How do you make it your own? One of one, but then open source it and see how it gets better.
2025-11-25 13:05:29
There’s a new video with Jeff Dean talking at the Stanford AI Club, only 2k views so far, he’s half of the pair I blogged the other day.
2025-11-24 15:29:15
When I can, I always try to time my flights for sunrise or sunset. The astounding beauty of nature never fails to amaze. The default nowadays is shades down; everyone is watching something, but sometimes it’s hard to match what you see out the window. And realize that only a small portion of humanity has ever been able to see these vistas from such an elevation.
2025-11-23 15:55:22
Fred Vogelstein writes on Crazy Stupid Tech: Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different? “To us what’s happening is obvious. We both covered the internet bubble 25 years ago. We’ve been writing about – and in Om’s case investing in – technology since then. We can both say unequivocally that the conversations we are having now about the future of AI feel exactly like the conversations we had about the future of the internet in 1999. “
