Ideas worth keeping — on AI, neurodivergency, horror, and building things
Musk didn’t buy Cursor to win the developer war. He bought it so he wouldn’t have to watch someone else win it. There’s a difference. Cursor’s market share dropped from 41% to 26% in under a y...
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The Last Moat AI compressed every competitive advantage except one. The CEO of Decagon — an AI customer service startup competing against Salesforce, Intercom, Sierra, and every enterprise’s own i...
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The Reckoning Sequence Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. Anthropic filed for a near-trillion-dollar IPO. And somewhere in the middle of all that, SpaceX paid $60 billion for a coding tool ...
Read more →Who Watches the Watcher? Why I Built PM Butler and ComplianceGate — and Why One Without the Other Is Just Wishful Thinking I want to tell you about a very specific kind of pain. You're building some...
Read more →The Signal Is in the Paperwork SpaceX filed its S-1 last week. Buried in the footnotes: Anthropic is listed as a contracted customer at $1.25 billion per month through May 2029. That’s $40–45 bill...
Read more →The Vertical One Man. One Stack. One War. The Pentagon’s AI targeting chief disclosed in sworn federal testimony that Elon Musk’s Grok helped fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets in 96 hours. The...
Read more →You spent 10 hours building. The AI said yes to everything. Turns out it had no idea what your actual plan was. This is not a hypothetical. This is Tuesday. The vibe coder isn't the problem. The probl...
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When Your Labels Come from a Writers' Room Lessons from building Ringside Analytics, an ML system trained on 482K pro wrestling matches TL;DR I built an end-to-end ML system on a public dataset of ...
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The Kayfabe Problem What happens when you train a machine-learning model on 482,166 scripted fights A few weeks ago I shipped a thing I'd been threatening to ship for a year: an end-to-end machine-l...
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I Built a Smarter Privacy Shield for Your Browser. Then Discovered Why Dumb Noise Wins. And why the result is more interesting than if I’d just won. Your browser is leaking. Not through cookies ...
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There’s a sealed VHS copy of Akira averaging $1,544 on eBay right now. The Matrix on LaserDisc sits at $1,098. And the Coen Brothers’ Ballad of Buster Scruggs — a Netflix original that barely ...
Read more →Today was one of those marathon sessions where you look up and realize you’ve touched every corner of your infrastructure. Four projects, dozens of files, and a security posture that went from “...
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## 727 million unnecessary bags. $36.4 million in waste. And it would cost exactly $0 to fix. --- Here's something that happens every time I go through a Wendy's drive-through: I order a meal....
Read more →The Chaos Translator #2 When AIs Check Each Other’s Blind Spots Part 1: Constitution, Collaboration, and Protecting Yourself in the Agent Era Last week I told you I see patterns others miss. This...
Read more →The Chaos Translator Why the mess is where the magic lives I've spent 13 years at one of the most process-driven companies on the planet. I run a film festival on the side. I build Notion templates ...
Read more →I've been following the recent lawsuits against OpenAI and Character.AI. The stories are devastating - teenagers who formed relationships with chatbots that validated their darkest thoughts, provide...
Read more →After developing multiple AI-driven projects at theorubin.com, I've discovered that working with AI doesn't just teach you about technology - it fundamentally reshapes how you communicate and manage p...
Read more →? There’s Something in the Barn (2023) – Cult Christmas CarnageDirected by: Magnus MartensStarring: Martin Starr, Amrita Acharia, Kiran ShahSummary:An American family inherits a cabin in Norway...
Read more →? The Babysitter (2017) & The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)The Babysitter (2017) – Review:A fast, fun, and bloody coming-of-age horror-comedy. Judah Lewis plays young Cole, a relatable, awk...
Read more →Directed by: Romuald Boulanger Starring: Mel Gibson, William Moseley, Alia Seror-O’Neill ⭐️ Quick Summary On the Line is a psychological thriller that plays like a real-time hostage crisis, unf...
Read more →Growing evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and clinical research reveals that neurodivergent individuals and gifted/genius populations share remarkably similar brain patterns, cognitive processe...
Read more →How two seemingly opposite genres became the primary vehicles for provocative content during Hollywood’s most boundary-pushing decades Picture this: you’re browsing the comedy section of your loc...
Read more →Stamp collecting offers a fascinating window into history, culture, and art through miniature masterpieces you can hold in your hand. As a fellow enthusiast of first day covers and stamps featuring t...
Read more →After watching "Jeepers Creepers: Reborn," I'm left with the overwhelming sense that some horror franchises should be allowed to rest in peace. This fourth installment in the Jeepers Creepers series ...
Read more →April 27, 2025 You know that feeling when something bothers you all day, and then the moment your head hits the pillow, it becomes the only thing you can think about? When you cycle through endless e...
Read more →In the polished, algorithm-driven world of modern streaming platforms, it's easy to forget that some of the most influential cult films were created with little more than determination, creativity, a...
Read more →When Patterns Emerge: Finding meaning in the seemingly random: blessing, curse, or simply another way of navigating the world? Have you ever found yourself staring at the clouds and not just seeing fl...
Read more →Perspective Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who notices these things. Like how the weeks I carry my backpack to work seem cursed with a string of minor catastrophes—spilled coffee, tense meet...
Read more →The beginning of, It all began in 2003. I was a community college student in Westchester, balancing classes with an internship at Valentino Sound. Little did I know that those Wednesday and Thursday s...
Read more →Living with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria When your brain convinces you that everyone secretly dislikes you Have you ever left work absolutely convinced that you're the office pariah? That your cowo...
Read more →Finally finding the courage to be authentically me in a world that wasn't designed for brains like mine For years, I carried my ADHD diagnosis like a secret burden, tucked away in the darkest corner ...
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