I just finished listening to the Audiobook of Start at the End Book: Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change by Matt Wallaert Links: Website, Audible (Audiobook), Goodreads (reviews), Amazon (buy the book) I love the behaviour change framework. It seems more practical and useful than the BJ Fogg model for… Continue reading Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change – Book Summary
Category: Michael Kublers
Ankle Heating or Cooling Brace – Random idea
You can read the PDF version of this: Idea I’d love a shoe or leg brace which I can plug into a wall socket and it could use some smarts to heat up or cool down my Achilles tendons and ideally even massage it.The aim is to be decreasing injury healing time.Maybe it could also… Continue reading Ankle Heating or Cooling Brace – Random idea
What is The Zeitgeist Movement in 2024?
Hey,What is this (Zeitgeist) Movement really all about? Zeitgeist Movement SA Chat So I got a question from someone today asking what The Zeitgeist Movement is about. This is something that resonated with me because Cliff and I are working on remaking the tzm.community website and a big part of it for me is that… Continue reading What is The Zeitgeist Movement in 2024?
Lenny’s Podcast Summaries Q2 2024
I’ve downloaded a bunch of Lenny’s Podcast episodes, extracted the Subtitles from them and then asked Claude (the AI) to summarise them. These aren’t all of them, just ones that really stood out to me. Note: If anyone has any issues with this, please let me know. I love the stuff coming from Lenny’s Podcast,… Continue reading Lenny’s Podcast Summaries Q2 2024
Meditations on Moloch – Summary
Something I’m enjoying doing is using Claude (Anthropic’s equivalent to ChatGPT) to summarise podcasts, books and in this case an article I keep hearing about but never completed reading. Scott Alexander posted the Meditations on Moloch article in 2014 and the Game B community, especially people like Daniel Schmachtenberger has been talking about multi-polar traps… Continue reading Meditations on Moloch – Summary
Mitsubishi Montero Sport Quick car review
I drove a 2016 Mitsubishi Montero Sport for a few days as part of a hire car. verall, I’d say it was a nice car and we enjoyed our trip. But we want to buy a Toyota, just don’t trust the Mitsubishi Brand.
Random Future Thought – Genetic Engineering means “human nature” will be different
Right now (2023) it feels like AI is the big thing. It is, it’s made a qualitative leap forward with generative AI. Both Chat GPT style text, image generation (e.g Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-e) and Audio, especially speech. But there’s a phrase I hear a lot. It’s got a bunch of variations but it’s roughly… Continue reading Random Future Thought – Genetic Engineering means “human nature” will be different
VPC Peering in MongoDB not working? Just wait 20mins
As per the title of this post, I want to get straight to the point.If you are setting up VPC Peering with MongoDB, then wait 20 minutes for it to kick in, before you remove any IP Access list entries from the Network Access section and just have the peering CIDR range. The story: I’m… Continue reading VPC Peering in MongoDB not working? Just wait 20mins
The Importance of good UI Labels
Whilst trying to send a payment from my Bank West Credit Card account to a bank account with my main Bank account, I went through the Make a Payment process. This post is basically me complaining that the “Make a Payment” screen when adding a new recipient asks for the “Nickname“, however that’s completely the… Continue reading The Importance of good UI Labels
Fixing a location lookup by moving the $limit
Some Background:I’m the technical co-founder of Drivible. I was working on a new feature which ended up causing a race condition and soft-deleted users files. In fixing that I caused some other minor issues.We didn’t lose any actual users data, but I generally pride myself on being a good developer and this was something that… Continue reading Fixing a location lookup by moving the $limit