Sean Devine @barelyknown
Founder/CEO of XBE, husband, father, programmer, entrepreneur, NBA fan, cyclist/runner. Drifting westward. Old, still applicable. Self-validating. barelyknown.com Kansas City, MO Joined June 2010-
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"The quest for authority led empiricists to downplay and even stigmatize conjecture, the real source of all our theories."
TIL you can remove the text from your icons on iOS… Long press on your screen, tap Edit, the customize. So nice.
David Deutsch: "Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe."
Real prioritization hurts. If it doesn't, you're just organizing.
Keep thinking about a quote Jobs said to Jony Ive after Jobs scolded his team with uncensored feedback. Ive approached Jobs privately after and asked him to tone down the rhetoric because he cared about the team. “Wow Jony, I didn’t realize you were so vain.” How often…
> I cannot prove that Steve Ballmer did this, but I do wonder how it must be to have more money than God, downstream of a result that proves you’re not God.
> I cannot prove that Steve Ballmer did this, but I do wonder how it must be to have more money than God, downstream of a result that proves you’re not God.
On what day of the week were you born? Why don't you know? (Friday)
reasoning models have normalized people saying/typing "thinking..." what a gift to collaboration
Surprised I haven't heard more this week about codex cli + gpt-5. In my usage today, it was better than Claude Code, and I think Claude Code is generally great. Thinking is good, coding is good, nice personality, and solid UX too.
The hard transition is evidence of its necessity. The easy transition is evidence of its opportunity.
codex + gpt-5 so good at mixed integer linear programming
Every great engineer is also an artist.

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