Procurement-Aware Pricing And High-Intensity Outbound
Adding a highly personalized postscript referencing the recipient’s specific preferences can materially increase outbound response rates (claimed ~3x).
Moving contacts from email to WhatsApp can increase relationship strength because informal, personal touchpoints increase resonance.
A cited study is claimed to estimate that shadow work costs companies more than $1.7 trillion per year due to hours wasted on manual tasks.
Agentic Operations And Automation Patterns (Ssh, Scripts, Determinism Layers)
Adam built a Proxmox CLI tool called pxm that can create a new Ubuntu VM with specified IP/CPU/RAM/disk and a preinstalled SSH key in under 10 seconds.
TrueNAS is perceived as not yet mature enough as an all-in-one 'do everything' homelab platform compared with pairing it with Proxmox, and a single-box convergence is desired.
Running SQLite-backed apps on NFS is prone to lock issues that can lead to corruption.
Commodities And Commodity Trend As Inflation Robustifier
The energy transition shifts the economy toward metal- and electricity-intensive inputs, while new mining supply can take decades, forcing prices to adjust and potentially driving commodity trends and inflation.
Trend-following success depends on positive autocorrelation in underlying prices, and equities can exhibit negative short-horizon autocorrelation that reduces the effectiveness of generic trend signals compared with fixed income.
In higher-inflation environments, bonds can shift from providing CPI-plus returns to CPI-minus returns and become more correlated with equities, reducing diversification value.
Lower confidence
Ai Lowes Iteration Costs And Enables Prototype First
AI-assisted programming reduces the cost of building the wrong thing by making implementation faster.
Jenny Wen delivered a keynote at Hatch Conference in Berlin.
A traditional design process that emphasizes extensive upfront research and artifact production before building may be outdated.
Ideation And Problem-Framing As Adoption Bottlenecks
For most people, a key barrier to building software is that many real-world problems are not perceived as software-shaped and therefore do not prompt software solutions.
Programmers are trained to interpret repeated tasks as candidates for automation, making them more likely than non-programmers to notice software-shaped solutions.
When non-programmers are told they can instantly create any app, they often react positively but then fail to build anything because they cannot think of an idea.