Two is one and one is none

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Claude’s having a service outage. Elevated errors for multiple models. I wonder if like how many people in the world are like, I can’t work, my brain’s shut off. Luckily, I have a redundancy. There’s the saying in the military. I’m trying to remember who said it. May have been Jocko. Definitely a military term. Two is one and one is none.

Two is one and one is none. I don’t know where I heard it. It’s a military thing. I’m not a military person. I didn’t was never served, but I have a lot of friends that did and great respect for them. But I love the idea of redundancies. So you never want to have, you know, a critical point of failure and not have a backup. And so airplanes are awesome examples.

They’ve got redundant systems for hydraulic controls. we’re about to explore Spencer’s fascination with aviation. I’m a huge fan of aviation. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. And I was super into airplanes. And when I was turned 12, my parents surprised me, and they one of the guys that went to our church.

was a pilot and then we met him. We went and got donuts at Winchell’s. It’s my favorite place to get donuts. And then we drove down to near Provo Lake. Near Utah Lake in Provo? Near a lake. There’s a lake out right by Provo. And there’s an airport right there. And we met them and it was a surprise and we got to go up in a little Cessna. And I got to sit in the first officer’s seat. So I was on the right side.

And the pilot was on the left. I think his name was Wayne. But

remember, it was a long time ago. anyway, I love aviation. We did went up and flew around and I we moved to Arizona. we my dad met one someone in our church and he was a he was a used to be an Air Force pilot, so he’s a pilot, had his license and he got he arranged to have them take me up and my dad al it was and my parents were always really cool about supporting whatever you us kids were really, you know, into, especially when it came to maybe the thing we wanted to do someday. So

I was very lucky. They they they f found opportunities to help us learn. And I got to go up in an airplane and there’s this little katana. It’s a low-wing and there’s a two-seater, very nimble, very light, and and it’s just they have a stick, kinda like a fighter jet. So it’s not a yoke, which is like the Cessna has this two handles and you push and pull to go up and down and then you rotate to roll left and right.

The katana actually has a stick, so it feels like more like a fighter plane. And anyway, redundancy.

Done a lot of simulator work too. I could I could probably land a plane if I had to. Like I can take off for sure. And then I could probably land it and survive the landing. I’m not saying I could land it and just like walk away. You know, we’d get to the ground, you know. I don’t know if like the bigger the plane, the harder it is. Cessna’s and stuff are pretty basic, simple. my stepdad’s a pilot for one of the major airlines.

He does international flight and he flies the

He flies the Airbus A380, I think. Tell me if I’m wrong, sorry about that. It’s massive. These planes are gigantic. I wrote I think I took an Airbus down to Peru from LAX. It has two aisles, so there’s three rows of seats. You know, there’s the seats by the window, and then there may have been two. No, there was more. Yeah, there no, there were. I’m trying to remember. It was a big plane. Two aisles.

Three s three sets of seats. The plane going down to Peru was a Latam Airlines. So I I bought a t a Delta airline ticket, but then the I flew Delta from Phoenix to LA. And then at LAX I flew from a Latam airline from Los Angeles to Lima. Anyway, this Latam air flight, it looked the wing was just taped up. It looked like it had duct tape all over all across the wing.

A bunch of my friends that are pilots, because I posted a picture of that, they commented and they said, Wow, I’ve never seen that much speed tape. Apparently it’s called speed tape because it helps the wing, because the wind or the air going across the wing has to needs a nice smooth surface. So maybe there was some, you know, damage to that part of the wing, or just it was probably just cosmetic or it was causing some sort of drag. So they’ve taped it over to make sure it was smooth. This p this wings had tons of it.

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And I was near the wing on the right side of the s the aircraft. So I was on the I was on the starboard side. Do they call it port and starboard on an aircra in an airplane? I don’t know if they do. So port is left. I remember that because it’s got four letters. Port and left are the same length. So port is left. Facing the forward forward, you know, the forward part of the plane, the nose. On the right is starboard.

And then you’ve got the aft, which is the back of the plane. Forward, aft, port, starboard. I was on the starboard side, window seat, looking at the wing. And then while we were flying, I could see the wall kind of like the fuselage was kind of like moving, because the wings were the whole plane was, you know, t catching turbulence and like it was it was it was incre it was a big plane. My my so my stepdad flies those. Those I don’t know if I could land.

They’re so big. And there’s so much to it. I mean, I mean, well, let me just do a thought exercise, and all my pilot friends can give me shit when I say this. So if there was an emergency, and I thought thought through this, you know, like if there was an emergency, and then the pilots are both like they they both eat a bad taco or burrito, and then they’re they’re they pass out and they’re unconscious from this bad burrito.

And they’re calling out to the plane. Can anyone fly a plane? And no one answers. And I’m like sitting there and I’m like, Man, I’ve done a lot of flight sims. You know, I would probably step up and say, Yes, let me give it a shot. Just if there’s no one else, if there’s no one qualified. I actually have flown a plane, a little one. I have done touch and goes. Under you know, I mostly it was just I was, you know, not by myself flying, so like I had the the the pilot there. But we did touch and goes.

And there’s this really cool part when you’re about to land, and especially in Arizona because that’s so hot, that there’s heat coming up off of the con the pavement. And you have to gently come down at the right angle of attack. And then you have to get this airspeed at the right place so that it’s slowing and your flaps are down, which are helping you stay stable and fly slower so you can come down on approach. And so

You have to let you can’t force the nose down to get through this kind of air that’s coming up. You have to just like f you hit it, it feels like you’re you’re falling you’re putt like you feels like your plane sit little plane is like kind of on a cushion. And then as the air speed drops, you know, you’re you sink on you sink through it and you have to keep the nose up so that the there’s three wheels. So the rear wheels touch down first. And you sink through and you touch down and it’s a very it’s a really cool feeling.

Especially when you’re actually hand is on the stick. So this little katana, this is what I remember feeling. And then you would touch down and then you would throttle up. You know highway to the danger zone, you know. Top gun style. You throttle back up and then you take off again. So it’s a touch and go. And people do this when they’re learning how to f land and take off and stuff. And then talk to the radio guys. Okay, so back to this back to the mind exercise.

So I’m on a plane and the a pr and the the both pilots have eaten the bad burrito and they’re just they’re incapacitated. They’ll be fine. They just need medical attention. But we’re they’re not gonna be okay and we need someone to help land the plane and no one else is like everyone else is just like deer and headlights and there’s me and I’m sitting there and I’m just like, man, I’m not even in the I’m not even in the the row where you have to help people, you know? I’m not even in that row.

And I’m like, you know, I’ve done a lot of sims. So they’re I’m like, okay, I’ll give it a shot.

And I I go up there and I probably would sit in the right side because that’s where I the only place I really know. So I’m gonna sit in the first officer’s seat. And Captain’s probably there, you know, passed out and people are helping him. So I’m like, all right, hands on the thro on the yoke. And the Airbus actually has Airbuses have a a a joystick. Yeah. They’re like super scientific. I don’t know, I don’t Boeing has a I think they still have the yoke.

But the Airbus, the new ones have a joystick. So it’s kind of like a it’s pretty cool. So I hand on the so let’s pretend we’re on the Latam airline and I’m A380 massive airplane. So the hard part would be figuring out how to get to the runway, because like I have no idea how to navigate this thing. So I’d probably get on the head head, I’d probably get on. They have autopilot too, and a bunch of things. So most likely autopilot’s on.

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Put on the headset and start communicating with whoever’s there. And it’s Latam Airlines, South America. I’m flying to Peru. So most likely, hopefully they speak English. And they’re like, Gringo. We’re at Pia Lima, Lima Airport. Gringo, Gringo, are you there? And I would be like, Yes, yes, I’m here. I got it. And they’d be like, All right, all right, Gringo, we’re gonna guide you in. And then they, you know, there’d be an emergency, so then they clear the runways, re-redirect all the traffic into Lima Airport.

And I would be like, all right, I’m doing this. And so, you know, most likely they would help guide me to at least try to get to in alignment with the airline with the with the if we were over the ocean, or you know, it would it would be really hard because I think autopilot would help get us there. They could probably do a lot of remote stuff. They might the newer planes, they may even be able to land them remotely. I don’t even know. They’re really cool. But let’s just say for this mind experiment.

that I’m I can see the runway. So let’s take the whole navigation part out of the equation because that’s getting the getting the getting the airspeed and the angle the the descent and the angle correct to bring the plane down so that it comes into contact with the runway at the right speed and then also be able to throttle back. One of the hardest things is I wouldn’t I don’t know how to throw on the so when you when you land

And the plane touches down, there’s something that they have to do to thrott to change the the there’s things on the engine that cover, they actually block the engine exhaust to make it reverse thrust so that it slows the plane down. It’s kind of like an air brake. And so that’s where you hear this like the crazy engine noises. And you’ll if you look at if you’re ever in a plane and you’re landing and you can see the back of the engine, so maybe if you’re flying on a smaller 737 or something.

And you get a chance to watch it. I love watching it when we land because you can see you can see these things extend to redirect thrust coming out of the engine so that it’ll slow the plane down. because there’s really the wheels aren’t gonna stop the plane. There’s no brakes. They they do have brakes, but they’re not meant for like high speed stopping. So the plane touches down. So this would be the hardest thing is like I don’t know A, I don’t think I’d bring it in at the right angle.

B, I don’t know if I’d get at the right speed. They probably could tell me, you know. nose up, nose down, throttle up, throttle down. They may be able to do a lot of this remotely, I don’t know. But like depending on how advanced the airline the plane is. but let’s just say I’m like a the seven three sevens were first released in like the sixties. Boeing seven three seven.

They have a new one, the Max, and all these things. original release. What did it? Boeing 737 was originally launched in 1964. Wow. This planes had been around. So they got newer or newer ones, obviously. 1968. So the 737-200, I want to find the full full list. Google’s gonna hook me up here.

So the 737-100 was first released in 68, and then they had a 200 that came out in 67. The 200 advanced was in 71. This plane’s been around forever. But I don’t know if it had like advanced autopilot and things, remote flying capabilities. But the s the 737 would probably be easier than the A380, because the A380 is massive. It’s bigger than a 747.

eight let’s look A380 bigger than 747. Let’s see if there’s a size difference. Yes, Airbus A380 is bigger than the Boeing 747 in passenger capacity, floor space, wingspan, height, and overall weight. And the 747, if you know, is like the one that they had Air Force One with the big, it looks like it has a big thing in the front. It’s front, it’s got two two story front. It’s a big plane.

So wingspan is 79.8 meters, 261 feet. Compared to the 747 is 68.4 meters by 224 feet. Lengthwise they’re the A380 is n shorter. Wow. But it’s big. And so anyway.

Trying to bring it down at the right speed. I don’t know how to extend the flaps. Like that would be hard. They’d probably be trying to tell me this. You know, okay, look to your right, there’s a switch. Take it down to half half flaps. Flaps are meant to help the wing change shape. So flaps, and then.

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Throttle, throttle down, slow the plane down,

then align the angle with the runway and try to kind of bring it in gently and then they have this thing called flaring at the end where you’re coming down and you have to pull back to flare the front of the plane up. my stepdad’s got a funny story about this but I’m not gonna tell it. But you flare and then the rear wheels touch down and then this starts to slow down and then the front wheel touches down and then you there’s that somehow throttle you know reversal on the engines that you have to fire. So it’ll slow down enough.

Most likely they’re gonna have the everything ready. Like they’re gonna have fire department out there. They’re gonna sometimes they put foam on runways so that when planes come down too rough or the landing gear hasn’t extended and they hit, the sparks don’t catch to ignite the fuel. So they might have that already. It might be a foam party when we get there. But I feel like I feel like I I know enough about aviation to at least like take direction. So there’s a there’s a there’s a life lesson in this.

You know, like I know enough about the thing so that if there was an expert in the my ear telling me how to do the things, I’d be able to follow instructions and land the plane and maybe s maybe save everyone. That’s kind of an interesting connection to like what work we’re doing. So getting enough proficiency so that you can be dangerous. I could be like I could be like Maverick. you’re dangerous. You’re dangerous. Iceman.

Like Val Kilmer is so good in that movie. I like Val Kilmer a lot. It’s an interesting documentary about him. He’s a very interesting person. A very weird role for him. I don’t think he didn’t r I don’t think he wanted to do that role, but

Anyway, so I’m Maverick. I’m dangerous enough to land a plane by direction. And I can listen to the control tower. Gringo one. Gringo one Lima Airport. Lima Lima Airport to Gringo One. Do you do you read me? I’m be yes, I read you. I’m at the controls. Pilots pilots are incapacitated due to bad burrito ingestion. How can I help you? I’m here. Let’s do this.

Or like there’s you know, setting down in the field. You know, there’s a lot of different protocols and things. The anyway how do we got onto this because Claude shut off and now I had to switch over to my redundant backup system, which is codex. So I’m still doing work here.

But I’m waiting for Fable well I I burned through my Fable five point one ultra code, like burned through my whole week in like half a day. So anyway, I’m out I’m in timeout for that. I’ll have to switch to my other account.

So I’m gonna fire up my redundant backup so I’m not stuck doing things, and I have another redundant backup which runs off so if if if Claude went down and if OpenAI was offline too, my third redundant backup would be the AI or Cloudflare AI gateway. And I’m using some models there, which runs on Cloudflare infra. So I love this idea of multi-region failover.

So we d you know, most most of the time when you’re deploying an application, you need to think about downtime. Like if a data center goes offline. There was recently an outage that happened because a Phoenix data center here where near why where I live, the storms caused issues and the cooling systems went offline. And so data centers are very hot. The machines and the especially like GPUs are super hot.

And so

They they had to take the data center offline, otherwise all the CPUs and things would burn up. And so they took it offline and it was it was driving some critical infrastructure. Name name or yeah, name cheap, d the the domain registrar, and then a bunch of other things caused some like crippled some big services. You we commonly hear about AI downtime and then c Cloudflare is another big one. But these these these

These applications running in the cloud, they operate in data centers. And so they’ll data centers have regions around the world. And so you’re not gonna just like install your app in one data center because if it’s in that one in Phoenix and the power goes off and then the cooling systems can’t keep the servers running, they have to shut it down. Otherwise, everything blows up. And so if you have your app deployed to one region.

And it goes offline and all your customers are mad at you. And you’re now everyone that’s now that everyone that’s s addicted to Claude and can’t think for themselves is now unable to function. You know. At least I have can switch over to my backups of back and my my redundancy. So I’m not crippled. I can still do my work. I I’m using AI to write all my code at this point. So, you know, I could I could break out the Visual Studio code, start start ru writing some bespoke code.

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You know, but at the rate at which I’m building things now, it would be like, Well, I guess I’m gonna you know, the timeline I gave you that’s actually gonna take me like six months now. Where I gotta s go out and find a d a dev team of like thirty engineers. So anyway.

Redundancies of systems. And I feel like in life it’s important. So planes have redundant systems. So going back to Gringo One coming into Lima Airport, they have redundant systems for hydraulic controls. They have redundant systems for the electrical systems. So if one fails, they switch to backup or auto fails, does auto fail over? And there’s an idea too with cloud applications where

If a region goes offline, there’s there’s these internet kind of s imagine a switchboard, you know, and it’s routing calls and stuff, all old timey. It’s like that, where the traffic goes, you type in the website, and then it’s like, where’s the server? Normally it routes it to the place close to you so it’s fast, but like if it’s if that server’s that whole that whole place is offline, they’ll send it somewhere else. So it’s a backup, it’s a failover. But then not only do you have data centers, you have

Infrastructure providers. So you have like Azure, which is Microsoft. You have Amazon has AWS, Amazon Web Services, and then you have Google, Google Cloud Platform. And then I don’t think Apple really does this. They have their own infrastructure though. So imagine if you are with Google and you have all your stuff running in Google’s cloud platform, and then Google has this massive issue. There’s AWSs have been having issues.

And I was reading some articles about this. About and I I think they’re it’s kind of conjecture, I think, but it’s they’re they’re thinking that because they’re they’ve scaled back on actual talent, people, human knowledge, they’re they’re running into issues because there’s things that are happening that are getting rolled out where maybe a human would have had said, Hey, don’t do that. And they’ve had some configuration issues that caused some massive out outages in AWS, and that caused AWS goes down.

And then everyone running their stuff on AWS goes offline. So for example, I use a app called Chronometer.

And chronometer is a tracking app for

You know, I put my calories in, I log my food, and it tells me like my am I in a deficit or whatever. It’s really nice. I I recommend it. But they run, I think they run on Firebase, actually, which is Google. And then Google’s Firebase maybe going offline and it takes their app offline. So then they have to send out an email, usually blaming it on the provider or whatever. we’ve been lucky with some of my clients to we’ve been using different platforms and they haven’t been.

susceptible to some of these bigger issues. we were, you know, we dodged a big one because we’re not we were not I don’t I’m not a huge AWS fan.

I’m not a big fan of any of the big ones. I’d rather use a a scrappy little guy like DigitalOcean, which is really big. But I’d rather build my own multi-region failover system using DigitalOcean. I I had this thought, and this is super super paranoid. But now what what if you built a multi-region, multi-provider failover system? So it’s like you have

your own DNS, which is like the mailbox routing system for internet traffic. It’s the thing that you type in like Google.com, you know. And Google.com is just a word. It’s just text, you know. And your browser has to say like, where does this go? You know, if if the user wants this Google, where does it go? So it r they have these servers in the world and they are called DNS servers. And DNS stands for domain name service. And there are a bunch of servers that

They take a request, so my my internet service provider, which is I’m not gonna name it because I don’t wanna dox all my infra. But my internet service provider then takes that request and then they’re like, where’s my name service? And then they look at the domain name and they’re like, all right, well this this domain name is registered and it’s through go GoDaddy or whatever, and then its name servers are listed as this. So then it routes it to that and it’s this way, it’s kinda like a way of routing your request, and it happens really fast.

But you know, it’s I lost my train of thought there. But I was thinking about having my own DNS that’s in multiple regions. So I have you know my domain name provider, and then I have like three different DNS servers, they’re all in different regions, I own them. And then there’s even like extra crazy weird things you can do with like crypto web 3 domains that are like blockchain-backed, that like can’t be taken down. And then not only do you have

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A multi-region mul you know, multi-region DNS system. Now you have multi-region deployments of servers so that if an entire region goes offline like big whoop. So you do you deploy it to AWS, you deploy to Google Cloud, and you deploy to Azure, and you deploy to DigitalOcean. You just play deploy to four regions. And then in there you have region failover. So you have multi-region failover inside of the region.

And then it’s like impossible to take your thing offline. There’s also been this crazy thing happening, especially during COVID, with people being deplatformed. And deplatforming is a scary idea. That’s why I don’t like AWS. AWS decided that the the the people running an app that they disagreed with their politics. So they they said, You can’t have your app on our platform anymore. So they just d turn them off.

And I I don’t really I’m not saying what the app was doing was right. I’m more of like a I’m a fan of freedom, you know. And so I think someone that has an app should be able to have their app on the internet somewhere. You know, like and then you know they’re in charge of policing it and all the things, but you know, and it’s it’s a nuance, there’s lots of nuance to that because I don’t know, I’m not gonna go into the weeds here, but I didn’t agree with why they said they took that platform down.

You know, I’m just gonna leave it at that because there’s a lot of nuance here. So, you know, might as well just try to get canceled right out the gate. I don’t like the idea of deplatforming. I don’t like the idea of you know bigger companies owning your data. I’m a big fan of data sovereignty. So I guess I’m sort of like if I was gonna name what is the

There’s a libertarians. So libertarian party is interesting. Libertarians are people who believe that individual liberty and personal responsibility are the most important values. So I’m a data libertarian. I b I believe that, you know, data, you know, and access to data is, you know, is an important part of society. You know, like I believe that.

You know, people ha need to have personal freedom and there needs to be free markets and limited government. So like if I was g this is just a fun fun little thought experiment too. So if I was gonna be like a data libertarian, you know, where my my tenants, what would I say? So data sovereignty would be part of it, you know, like the idea that I own my data. no one can just like turn off a service and be like, We don’t like you because you drive the right wrong kind of truck.

you know. Or, you know, we just we decided that you you shouldn’t be in business anymore. You know, like I don’t like that idea. That’s the where kinda I s I agree with the free markets stuff. There’s there obviously needs to be

There needs to be regulation to support business. And obviously there’s a lot of nuance here. So don’t don’t like lock me into a one box just because I’m kind of spitballing some ideas here. But I do like so maybe if I if I said I was gonna be anything on with the you know, internet world, I’d be a data sovereignty party where I believe that you should own your data, you know, and that’s where a lot of the GDPR C CPA regulations have come in, because Europe and ca and California are like

People should be able to export all the data. You know, they should be able to take all their data and leave and ask for it to be deleted, right? To be forgotten. You know. They sh these big comp tech companies haven’t always been doing things that are in our best interest. And so I I’m a firm believer of that too. So it’s

So anyway, redundancies would be a part of that because like if you’re gonna be on one platform and then that platform has different politics than you, and they decide that they’re gonna use their power of being gigantic to squish you as a little bug that you are, you know, that’s not cool to me. So redundancies, data sovereignty. We’re going on a journey here. Claude is still offline. I’m switching over to the my redundant backup, which is which is

Codex. I’ve been using Codex. I think I like it. I think that they do things differently. I think that they have strengths and weaknesses.

And I feel like there’s useful things you can do with both. I think it’s kind of like pick the right tool for the job. I feel like you the user experience in the ChatGTP app is by far better than anthropics stuff. They’re remote connection, so I can log in and then I can connect my phone and I can connect multiple computers and all just works really well. On on Cloud, though, I have to like

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Fire up a terminal session, enable remote control, and then it’s kind of clunky and it kind of it was really annoying to get it to connect to my app. I’m like, this is ridiculous. Like I should just be able to, you know, it should just know at this point. Like I’m if I’m signed in on Cloud on my phone and I’m signed into Cloud on the web or the desktop app, come on now. It’s not that hard to sync the things. Chat GTP on the other hand is really good at that. So I think if from a s they’re both capable.

And the newest sh GDP models are really good. 5.6 sol. I haven’t tried this one yet. Ultra. We’re firing up an ultra. 5.6 sol, ultra effort. And I’m going to have it do some work to tick over on a project. copying the prompt directly over from the session of Claude to see how it does. Go look. I need to check the

And you check the source. Well

this is not a repo, so okay, we’re on main. The pro okay, just double checking that I’m not like halfway through a branch locally. Like it’s not gonna stomp all over.

Setting up some dedicated coding environments for so I can make my collaboration a little easier and also control access to project work.

’Cause that’s very critical and I feel like a lot of people overlook it.

They get excited and build a lot of stuff and then they don’t know where the stuff is and they don’t know who built it. They don’t know passwords into things. And then they then they their person that built it moved on. And they’re like, How do I get the thing? How do who the thing went offline, but how do we how do we make the thing that’s critical to our business work again?

And that goes us back takes us back to redundancies, right? So this episode the of the Ouchie Origami Podcast is brought to you by redundancies.

And it’s brought to you by the saying, two is one and one is none. Thank you, mil military guys. Let me Google that source. I’m two is one.

I saw it in a movie.

It did. Okay, so two is one and one is none is a popular military and survivalist maximum maxim. Meaning that if you only have a single critical item or or plan, it fails. So it gets or if it fails, it gets lost, or breaks, you’re left with nothing. And so I think Jocko talked about this. Yeah. Pretty sure I heard it in Jocko’s podcast. The core rule, popular popularized by elite units like the Navy SEALs, this rule states that.

Reliance on a single point of fain failure is dangerous. So Jocko talks about this in his book. You know. He talks about, you know, teams and organizing projects and getting critical things done and redundancy is an important part of that.

Claude is, or Codex is using my computer. And it’s like, hey, we Claud Codex is using your computer, just heads up. I’m like, all right, take over. But this is the other part of the whole thing, right? So my machine that I’m coding on, I like to experiment with things, so I don’t keep anything critical on it. You know, it it needs to be

Ephemeral, which is a term used like it means it could disappear at any time. Ephemeral means lasting for a very short time. So my computer’s not lasting for a very short time, but it needs to I need to act as if the stuff on this it wouldn’t be a big deal if if I it got nuked or it there was a something got breached. Like, you know, I’m not keeping I keep all of my stuff.

I keep all my secrets and authentication locked up pretty tightly and it’s all biometric controlled. So if something happened, the only place it could really get it from is memory. If I had something running and it had a secret, but I’m not gonna run production secrets on this machine, you know. Production secrets run in production. So I’m gonna have dev secrets. So I might have like a send grid API token that’s locked down and limited and it’s used for development.

And that might be and that’s fine, I can get that, I can kill that token no no problem. You know, so these are things that I think are gonna get worse and worse. We’re gonna hear more and more stories of people just I’m not trying to make anyone scared, but you need to learn about the security s parts of letting a letting letting an AI raw dog your computer, you know. So if you’re running raw dog mode, which means you’re l giving it all access pass, you’re getting it it’s getting up in there, you know.

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Doing whatever it wants, like don’t do it on a computer that has sensitive stuff, right?

Set up a sandbox that’s but you know, it g it’s easier for for it to start building a bunch of stuff and now you have critical systems and you just didn’t think about it.

And there’s a lot of like prompt injections and attack vectors and stuff. So this is just like general, you know, general IT security, cyber security stuff.

Again, you know, find an expert, put some p policies in place. If you run a business, you need to think about redundancies because if

You know, if if a critical person in your organization was sick and they were in a coma, you know, I hope they’d get better, but like you would still need to be able to function. Like you your whole business should not go offline. Just like if you have a system that you’ve been building and it’s on one computer and that computer dies, and then you’re like, Did we have any backups of our stuff? Like we gotta start all over from scratch? Like, you know, you and then a hard drive can fail. So you

If you’re gonna a run a really good example of a redundant system that you really should consider if you’re the first thing you’re looking for is if you have a lot of critical data, like people that have videos and it’s like a ton of data, cloud is a good place for that. But like if you have if you have sensitive documents that you don’t want to just keep in the cloud because the cloud has its own security risks, like Apple gets breached all the time and so.

You could put it on a hard drive, but then you know hard drives can fail. So if you put a terabyte worth of your documents and say baby photos and stuff, and then you plug it in one day and it doesn’t work, like that’s bad. You don’t have a redundant backup there. So there are these things called NAS systems, na network attached storage, NAS. I’m not gonna recommend any pr any actual

things because I don’t have any direct I’ve haven’t used a NAS in a long time. I actually built this thing called an unraid server. A DN don’t go do that. It’s a little bit more advanced, it runs Linux. It’s pretty cool. But that thing actually like the USB drive running Linux that had all the configuration so it knows how the drives are all put together. I I hit it and it cracked in half.

So there’s a way to restore it, but I have this server that’s bricked with like five or six hard drives. So what I’ll be able to figure it out. That’s actually probably a really good project for Claude right now. I should get him on that because there’s a way to like build a new image and then boot it up and then analyze the drives and then stitch them together in the right order so that the NAS will come back online. and I need to do that. But there’s some really good st

Backblaze is a really good sort service. Backblaze, my brother-in-law recommended. I don’t know if this I haven’t used them in several years. But it’s just a backup. It’s very low level. And it so this is kind of cool. They have a hybrid NAS. So network attached storage. So in your in your in your infrastructure with a B2 cloud storage. And these guys are super cheap because you’re just basically loading up in data in like a

They call it like long-term storage, where if it’s infrequently accessed, they can store it really cheap. Like the cloud storage you need to get your website pictures and stuff to pull from needs to be very fast, so they have to keep it active. And but if they can just put it on a hard drive somewhere and it’s you know, they call it cold storage, where there’s like data you need, but you’re not gonna use it much. And it’s like if you have a ton of data, this is a good thing to look into. What’s their pricing?

Backblaze, I used to use these guys. They are $7 per terabyte per month. That’s pretty good. What is their overdrive offering? They have two offerings: Backblaze B2, and they have a Backblaze B2 overdrive built on the Backblaze B2. Wow. Terabyte, terabit speed. Wow. At exabyte scale. Those are big numbers. Throwing up out some big numbers there. Size matters with these guys.

Terabyte terabit X byte.

Redundance. They have white glove onboarding. Wow. Get the white gloves out and everything.

there’s a protocol called S3, which is something that Amazon created and it’s a way to kind of like put data and s into c into buckets. I’m not gonna get into the weeds on how that works, but anyway, if you’re in an office, a network-dach storage device, and then what you do is you put like three hard drives in, and then your data gets stored in like three places. If one of the hard drives fails, you’re you’re fine. You just put a new drive in and it rebuilds the thing. And then to get extra protection.

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You connect it to Backblaze. So, like, you know, backup strategies. This is Gemini, just throwing out the knowledge here. So it’s it’s saving me the time of going to these websites and actually being a p you know, landing on and actually consuming the websites, just helping me just get there real quick. So I don’t even need to click through and buy their stuff. Anyway, it’s showing me a few things, you know, backup strategies, three two one rule, keep three copies of your data across two different types of media. So like hard drive.

C D backups. There’s like archival solutions that put your data on these really good, you know, long-term archive tapes that are like really good. So there’s if you have critical data, then this is a big thing. It’s like understanding failures and backups and redundancies. And this is something that an IT department deals with. But if you’re a small business and it’s just you and your wife opened a thing and then you have like a couple office people and then you don’t really know, and then all your

Patient files go offline. You’re like, ha, where are the patient files? They’re like, where they were on the hard drive. Where was the hard drive? It’s on a it it it it blew up. You know, like this is this is it’s worth investing a little bit of time in maybe even having an outsourced like IT or something come in and help you. I don’t do that. Call don’t call me. I do wanna, this is one thing I’m working on though, is I’m working on this D7R, which is

It’s still offline. d7r.io. It’s all it’s open, it’s up right now, you can check it out. But I’m building a lot of open source repositories, and they’re my designs for different things. So if you’re like, hey, I’m thinking about building something of X, I you I need to create an app and I need to have some redundancies, and I need to make sure that you know that data’s safe. And I’m gonna have some examples.

It’s not gonna be it’s gonna have like for education only purposes, because you’re gonna wanna take that and then start to think about what you have and build your own plan, you know. But it’s a good starting point. Like there’s some the the things I’m talking about here, like where’s the data stored? You know? This is what a CTO does in a company. This chief technical officer. Well, okay. I don’t there’s a C C I O.

Which was a big thing, CIO, chief information officer. What’s the difference between I don’t really know what the difference is between the two.

CIO. I don’t know, let’s find out. So the difference is that the CI a CIO, Chief Information Officer, and I’m reading this off of Gemini. So a CIO focuses inward on company operations, employee productivity, while the CTO, okay, he focuses outward on customer products revenue growth. That’s interesting. Okay. So like CIO is more about inside the company.

probably managing the network infrastructure, security and software compliance. So okay, so I I’m basically both of those right now. I should create a separate version because I’m like my version of the CTO is both, because I do both. So not only am I worried about the stuff happening inside the company, I’m worried about the customer facing infrastructure, you know, all of the cloud providers and all that stuff. So

I’m both. I didn’t know that. Now I know. Knowing is half the battle, right guys? The G. I. Joe that was G. I. Joe. If you’re if you don’t know that saying, it means you didn’t grow up in the eighties like I did.

But G.I. Joe had a great motto, you know. Knowing is half the battle. Knowing is half the battle. That is knowing. Yeah, I love that. We’re we’re gonna we’re adding that to our our our corpus. I’m putting together this is gonna be fun. Where’s my where’s my obsidian journal? Alright, I gotta go make a I need a ideas

Academy credo. So I’m building a c academy credo. Like I like this idea of kind of like a kind of like companies have their what do they call the company motto, you know? Company motto corporate culture thing.

Companies generally have guiding philosophies, internal focus, core identities. again, I’m on Gemini, filling in the gaps in my knowledge here. So I I already did a bunch of kind of like framework work here, but like a company, you know, like like Apple has think different. You know, that’s Apple’s company motto. Apple think different. What do they call it? So think well, think different.

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Think different is a slogan, I guess. So what is like I I that’s what I first think of. So it’s an it was an advertising campaign, but it meant it rolled into something. Apple Steve Jobs. credo philosophy. Think different. Give me give me Gemini. I genuinely don’t know this. Help me, Gemini.

You’re my only hope. So

Wow, the credit philosophy.

Wait, is this even right? The intersection of Apple, Steve Jobs, his credit philosophy and how map how it maps into modern AI engines like G Google Gemini. I don’t know if this is really what I’m looking for.

huh, credit philosophy credo. Corporate credo.

Yeah, I’m looking for the core Apple philosophies.

Think different. Yeah, I mean, like, that’s what they actually say here. So the 1997 Think Different campaign establishes Apple’s purpose. And then and it’s in there, you’ll see it all over the place. And it’s kind of like tells the story of what they want to do. And I love this idea. I’m working on my own, especially for the academy that I’m building. Because I want to be able to one of them is this force multiplier with AI. You know, that’s part of it. And then the rock star principle, which is this idea that.

With persistent continuous action, you’re able to identify your areas of knowledge that you need to learn, and then you’re able to apply it, and then build this minimal level of proficiency to be able to effectively work with pro professionals and and experts, like what Ford did. So this is all related. And so I’m kind of putting together my own thing. But I also so one of the things I like now, knowing is half the battle. And I’m not, I’ll definitely quote G.I. Joe when I say that.

G.I. Joe, television series, G.I. Joe, real American hero. Famous catchphrase. Knowing is half the battle. The other one that I love too is The Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton.

Reading Rainbow, they always had a how did it go? So here I’m exercising another thing I work on, which is don’t immediately search Google.

I’m trying to basically make sure that that neural pathway that has this stored knowledge from the eighties is still there. So

The song was like Take a Look, you’re it’s in a book, reading Rainbow. Not much of a singer.

He used to sign off on something. Okay, if if me memory tip, if you’re ever running into a blo a a wall, like it’s like it’s on the tip of my tongue. Don’t force it. Your brain will like it’ll get all jammed up. Like the rain the reading rainbow will come back to me. what other sl slogans from my childhood do I want to roll into my c academy credo? the Boy Scouts. I was a Boy Scout and a Cub Scout, so be prepared. That’s one of them.

Then they have the scout motto, and I’m I know this by heart, so I don’t even need to look it up. A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent. And then we had a joke. We would add hungry at the end and laugh. That was one of my scout leaders who would add that on. Because all the scouts were hungry all the time. I have a lot of scout stories that are really funny.

Pepper those in as we go.

So Reading Rainbow. So LeVar Burton. I liked LeVar Burton too because he was on Star Trek.

LeVar Burton. He played Jordy on Star Trek The Next Generation. And Jordy was he had a this like he had he he lost his vision. And the advanced medical thing that they had in the Star Trek Next Generation world, they were able to put these like sensor things on the side of his temples. And then they installed he was able to put on this like metal visor, the metal thing.

over his eyes, so it kind of looked like he had this really cool, like, I don’t know how to describe it, but like it wasn’t like sunglasses, it was like this thing that would go over his eyes. And it it restored his vision. And he had like enhanced vision. So it was kind of like an augmented vision. He wasn’t really a cyborg or anything. It was just like a piece of equipment that he could use. And then it r it gave him like extra good vision. He was a science officer, so he worked with data.

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Data was cool, was an Android. Anyway, LeVarburton, we’ve we’ve navigated into the world of Star Trek the next generation. But he was also on reading Rainbow, so I was like, that’s cool. Without his vision thing. So I’m this kid. I’m like, hey, that was a guy’s on Star Trek. But Geordie doesn’t need his eye thing when he’s reading books to kids now.

That’s on the tip of my tongue. We’re coming back to it. So the scout motto.

I won’t type it to it’ll take for long, but that’s a good one. The other one I really liked, and I gotta find the source of this, it was a podcast I was listening to, and he was talking about his family having a family motto. And one of the things that they it was a tenant of their, you know, family, and I thought this was really cool. It was it was lead with curiosity, not judgment. I love that. So I was like stealing it. The

I’m gonna steal it, Creative Commons Lee, and cite them. Leading with curiosity instead of judgment. Who has said this? You know, like the often misattributed to Walt Whitman, okay. But most famously popularized by Ted Lasso. Wow, I didn’t know that. Okay. cool, Ted Lasso. Big up big props. So who wrote that? Because it’s not Ted Lasso. Who who who

Curiosity, judgment episode, writers. Let’s find out who wrote it. Lead with Curiosity, not judgment is the set central theme to La the Lasso Way. The iconic episode ten, Hope That Kills You, of Ted Lasso, where famous famously Ted quotes Walt Whitman. Okay, so this is where the misconception comes from. But who wrote this? Like so so the writers had to get that from somewhere.

Let’s find out. Let’s go to IMDB.

So I’m go IMDV now.

Ted Lasso episode. We can find out and we can hopefully give them some credit.

So The Lasso Way, episode twenty eight, The Chubby wait, this is not Ted Lasso. I got out of the wrong T V series. Episode ten. I don’t know what season it is. Probably the first one.

Episodes. I D B is a pretty cool thing.

The Hope That Kills You, is that what it’s called? Yeah. Okay. I I Googled the wrong one. So, okay, so we have three writers listed. So I’m gonna copy them into my sources so we can give them credit. So I can, instead of Walt Whitman, we’re gonna give

The writers of oops cut and paste, cut and paste, I can do this. Command C, Command V. Does anyone else use key keyboard shortcuts? I do.

writers were. And it I clicked on the element, so it decided to me copy the link. So I’m anytime I mention things on the podcast, I have this magical army of awesome people, awesome agents that help me like break down the sources and they they find the the link, they put the links in, and they create the show notes and stuff. So and then I of course audit it to make sure it’s real and good. And so

What I’m gonna do here with this note is I have the, you know, all of the source that I need to help my agents find the writers. So the writers are Brendan Hunt, Joe Kelly, and Jason Sud Sude Sudeckis. And I don’t know these people, but Jason Sudekis is the lead actor. Okay. So he’s actor, writer, producer. Joe Kelly.

Joe Kelly’s done stuff for the office, it looks like. So these are these are prominent people. Let me go back.

Brandon Hunt, Brendan Brandon Hunt.

Brendan Hunt is one of the h he’s the other actor on the show. So he’s also one of the writers, that’s cool. He plays the one of the c he’s like the assistant coach.

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Yeah, he’s he’s on Ted Lasso. This is why I like IMDB, because you can kind of like dig into who they are who the actors are and like what the other stuff does. I I’m kind of fat, but I like to I like to know this stuff. I have a friend who’s really good. He can he knows all the actors. And this even the you know the ones that are obscure, you know. which is this his character? Brandon Hunt is the character is the person.

And then on Ted Lasso, so it’s known for Ted Lasso. Coach Beard. Okay. So Coach Beard, and then Coach Beard, Jason Sodekis, Hannah. those are the stars. So Jason Sodekis is the lead. And then Joe Kelly is one of the right writers from the office. And then Brendan Hunt is the Coach Beard guy. So those are the writers, and so somehow the

We have arrived today on my podcast talking about lead with curiosity, not judgment. So I really like that. So Ted Lasso gets the gets the citation and by association and production value and everything, the cast and creators of Ted Lasso need to make sure that they do get our get our our props.

But anyway,

I almost had the reading rainbow. It was it was right there.

It’s right on the tip my tongue. Let’s check back in with with code with claw chat GTP. wow, here we go.

Okay, so it’s what I’m doing right now is I don’t like the design of one of the pages. So I’m using the UIUX Pro Max Skill. UIUX Pro skill. I’m gonna give a link to this because it’s really cool. UIUX Pro is really cool. This will level you up if you know how to use it correctly. With great power comes great responsibility, everyone.

Uncle Ben said that. That’s another one.

Responsible.

Sorry that you have to sit here while I type things. So Uncle Ben said, and this is, you know, Uncle Ben, this is Spider-Man, and that’s Stan Lee and all the people that made that stuff and the writers and everything. Uncle Ben said that. Stan Lee through Uncle Ben channeling. And

So UIUX Pro is a really cool skill. You can install it, and then you can use a forward slash command in Codex or in Claude. And it it’s really good at directing agents into properly doing design work for you. So I’ve worked with some very talented designers, especially in the digital space. And

doesn’t replace a designer, you should definitely get people to help you establish brand theme. So like that’s a hard thing for designers right now. People are just like cowboy coding some designs and they think they’re fine. But if you haven’t worked with creatives before and you don’t understand the full process, you’re not gonna get the same level of quality. So my company Epic, we right when we started up, I put a budget together to hire one of my design one of my very talented design friends.

And his name is Wynne Burton, so I don’t know if it matters if I call him out, but I’m gonna s Wynne Burton. he’s so talented, and he worked has done work for Pepsi and Disney. And I have a bunch of friends that I reach out to. He helped me establish the brand feel, brand kit, brand theme, landing page, and direction for the creative that I wanted for that entire company. So once I had that, I was able to

Then take that and use it with UI UX Pro, but it’s still you’re net not gonna have the same. Like I’m working with another company right now, which’s engaged, a print agency. And the print agency is re-d reestablishing a brand theme to give them a different brand feel. And then that that’s print. So their print work, their ads in print and all this stuff, and then they have a digital agency now.

who is working under the direction, kind of following the lead, and they’re saying, okay, here’s the brand kit, now how do we translate that into the digital space? And so now this company’s actually out of Germany and they’re really talented. And the the guy that the guy that we’re working with who is the the founder

he’s a very talented engineer as well. Like he knows his web stuff. So there’s a lot of I’m really digging how the process is going because he understands development and making it easier, and that doesn’t always translate sometimes. Unless you have a really talented and designer that’s done a lot of high-end work and supported, you know, a a do a development team. Like he’s doing things with units of eight.

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column layouts, like advanced systems layouts, which translate into things that we can use in the code to make things look really consistent, you know. Anyway. UIUX Pro, and I’ve asked Codex to, because Claude was Claude’s in time out. So Claude’s having a bad day. And I need to work on getting this. Oof, that looks so good.

Yes.

This this is beautiful. This is expressing my vision. My gr my grandiose plans are coming together and fruition.

And

I’m liking it. It looks good. So I’m gonna review visually now and kind of give my my a agent

We’re gonna give him some direction on any revisions I’d like. Some kind of like he click Codex is right now, he’s my front end engineer, and I’m having him implement or codex. Yeah, Codex is or chat GDP, they renamed it. It used to call it Codex, but Codex is now implementing my design standards to update one of my landing pages so that it matches my vision. And this looks so much better.

It’s already looking way better. Ugh. Looks beautiful. Because there’s

You know, it’s telling a story visually is very hard, especially if you want to it to look very professional and also this AIs are designing things that are very AI, like it’s you can tell, like you’re f starting to see some color choices and you’re like, this is an AI site. Okay, I I feel it. I feel it in its bones. But then when you work with a UIUX Pro and then you have very specific you need to have an established brand theme, brand kit.

that lays out content standards and fonts and all of these things that help, you know, to is you know, establish the look and feel. You have your, you know, look and feel and brand kit and stuff so that and I’ve just noticed one thing that I don’t like. Well that’s actually okay on mobile. One of the so then there’s responsive development and design where

You have to look at it on a small screen, and then you have to look at it on a big screen, and then it’s like the there’s a lot to it. I’m seeing the background clip on the handheld view. And most people that see this will probably be on their phone. They’ll probably be, you know, chilling on the couch, watching Netflix or something. No judgy if that’s what you’re doing right now. If you’re on the couch listening to my podcast, watching Netflix, and then you decide to click through.

totally cool. No worries. I watch Netflix too. There’s what am I watching right now? There’s a show on Apple TV we’re watching called Lucky. It’s pretty cool. It’s got the girl from the girl from the The Queen’s Gambit.

And it’s pretty cool. It’s a heisty kind of, you know, cops and robbers show.

Okay. This is cool.

I’ve built some graphics, okay, and okay, that’s good, because it lets me they’re they’re schematics, they’re blueprint diagrams. And I need to be able to like show them and then let you s see the full size. And I’m still working on these. These are like these are drafts. All this thing, the everything is draft. I haven’t actually published any of it yet. Cool. And I’m checking the I’m just checking to make sure that everything looks good on mobile.

And then this is stuff so what I’m doing too is I’m building a visual toolkit.

So that I can create video content and have a presentation deck. Cause right now I’m just I’ve got a microphone and it’s connected to a survival necklace that I have, and I just I’m spitballing, you know. And I am pulling things up, so it’s I do some screen recording, but I feel like having visuals, you know. anyone that’s done psychedelic work understands how important the visuals are.

So yeah, but I’m trying to paint the picture to help understand the metaphor between the a div a computer and the human system, because that’s where I’m drawing these parallels. And I feel like this is a good thought experiment to help talk through some complicated things because we all understand these w everyone understands how their phone works. You know, it’s like the phone’s got a battery and then you have to charge it, and it’s like we need to get rest.

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We have a social battery sometimes. Like drawing, helping to kind of navigate some of these topics using the metaphor of the human body is a and I believe the computer human body is a computer. So it’s a metaphor, it’s a belief. I’m stating it, I’m I’m testing it against I’m testing it with you know my critical thinking processes.

and then I’m using AI tools to help me tell this story, but also enforcing rigorous theme, brand theme, and feel, look look and feel to so that leveraging all of my front-end skills so that you know I can make sure that my site it’s consistent and the pages are clean clear and help people understand, you know, some of these topics. And

that I have to make sure I’m giving all the citations and anything I mention and you know I’m not like pretending I know and it’s just someone else’s idea. It’s a it’s a I want to use this army of agents that I have to do the Steve Jobs thing, you know, think differently about it.

To you know, produce at a very high quality level that matches the work I did for Fortune 500 companies. You know, to like pretend that I have to give my site to an agency like the marketing store, who is in charge of like Monopoly and for McDonald’s and they did their big let’s look at the marketing store, TMS.

They do TMS global technology marketing. Big boys. These are the big boys. They work in the big sandbox.

So I wanna, you know, there’s McN Monopolies on their front page. Some of the work that I did for Monopolies, like literally on their homepage. They did the creative. I built the interactive piece. So I’m not saying I made it all, you know. It was part of a team that did it.

T Mobile. So they were yeah, T Mobile Tuesday. So like our company was involved with that. I was on a different team. that was a very talented group of of individuals that got that pro that whole program up and running. Had some very unique had some unique technology kind of thing requirements, you know, more being that it came out every week and there was just this

you know, traffic hammering and there’s just they needed it to be dynamic and there’s a lot of like markets and things that they had to support and yeah, it’s cool. The team was really smart. You know, they had really good then they ran into things with infrastructure and they had to, you know, engage their external support teams, the provider, and really work to

And s to s you know help kind of they had to reach out to the their the company that they were, you know, hosting these platforms with to get through some difficult architecture decisions.

They didn’t just like think they knew everything. They relied on the experts. You know, they leaned on the people that built that technology, you know.

I don’t know if I can remember the reading rainbow slogan thing.

Okay, guys. It’s gonna be it’s gonna make me mad when I find out what it is. slogan. Yeah. You don’t have to take my word for it. The famous catchphrase from reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton is, but you don’t have to take my word for it. It’s like his challenge to read the book yourself. I would love it. He read the book, he would talk about a book. And then

trouble for playing this. But as we say down here, you don’t have to take my word for it. There’s some other books I think you’ll enjoy, but Lavar Burton. So awesome. production value on that audio is gonna be really bad. Sorry guys.

And okay, so my backup redundant coding agent has produced. So keys key changes, cinematic concept art anchors and the the hero worldview sections. And the model now distinguishes three three internal layers. So the issue I had was, and this is the prompt I put in.

I took screenshots and I said we need to re we need to work on this page. It’s very data heavy, it’s hard to understand. We need to design this so it has a clear communication of the idea. I have some concepts here, and I pasted all of the like I built a whole bunch of concept artwork. That was it was a b and I you can see it when it’s on there, because I’m gonna put it up. And it’s blueprint style schematics.

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And it shows a computer and it shows a human body and the different systems. And I’m gonna I’m gonna iterate on it. It’s not the locked-in version I want. And then I have another one that I did in a different session that was like really cool. It came out really nice. And it was very, it was it was drawing the connection between four-dimensional space and three-dimensional linear time. And I’m trying to basically help illustrate this connection we have to divine source.

My dog is barking. Neighbor’s probably moving his garbage cans.

Cowboy. Come here, bud. Come on. Good boy. Come on. Good watchdog. No one’s gonna sneak up on our house.

Evie’s sunbathing in the backyard getting her son. Good girl. Okay. Thank you, buddy. He’s a good boy. Okay.

Sometimes when I run out of my claude limit, I’ll it’s my excuse to take time off. Nine eight AM. Who’s up at four?

Sup 4 a.m. Actually, I got up earlier than 4. And it was like 3 30. I went to bed at 7 p.m. last night. I was so tired. Had a good day, very productive. But it was pretty tired. And then we were doing some breath work. There’s an app called Other Ship that I really like. And it’s a breathwork app. And it’s the one I was we were doing was.

It’s like nineteen minutes long. I’ll link to it in the show notes. It’s called Five Breaths Deep Dive. Let me see if I can

sure.

Text it to myself here so I can just paste it real easy. one thing that you can do that makes it easy sometimes to switch things between computers. I probably could have airdropped it to this machine, but I’ll just text it to myself. And then I can just on my computer now. I can and I’m on a Mac, so I the iMessages app is and I just like cut and paste now into this note that I have for today.

I need to this has now become the notes or episode notes.

just kind of throwing some references. Other ship. And it’s the Five Breaths Deep Dive. And it’s a steady rhythmic breath to harmonize the body and mind. And

it’s it’s done by Elsa Unengi, who is a certified breath coach from Sweden. she specializes in functional breathing and to improve mental health, mental and physical well-being by optimizing the breath. Currently she lives in Los Angeles. She’s been helping individuals and businesses ranging from Oscar winning Oscar winners to elite athletes to renowned corporations. Her her knowledge is of the science of breath.

Her knowledge of the science of breathing has gained praise from renowned doctors who strongly endorse her work. she has a an Instagram and I’ll I’ll I’ll add that to the notes too. So Elsa Unengi. She has a really calming voice. breath curriculum.

Instagram. And Othership is a really cool app, and they have a lot of different people that create breathing routines and things. And one of the things I do that we do, Haley and I do, when we go to bed usually is we will put one of these breathworks on and it helps us like de down it downshift the your the your nervous system.

Kind of like you get into a rhythmic breathing and it’s got some nice like music that helps has tones and it’s really calming. And I was like out. I didn’t know I don’t even remember ending. My phone was just like it was on the bed next to me. I’ve I had my eye mask on. I have a Manta sleep mask. Manta sleep mask. No official sponsors here.

it’s really nice. I have a sleep mask that I wear every night to block all the light out. My s my room is really dark anyway. It’s like a it’s like a cave. I don’t have any lights. So I’m I’m like the I’m the tinfoil hat guy when it comes to sleep. But Tim Ferris talks about sleep a lot. And sleeping is a skill. Sleep is a skill. And I had that period of my life where I was having such a hard time sleeping that I spent a ton of time doing research. There’s a cool thing.

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You know, it really only works if it’s cold, because if it’s hot, it’s really uncomfortable. But and when the weather is cold, if you wear socks, and I know some people don’t like having socks on when they sleep, but if I use if I get these wolf socks, and the because your feet are warm, it helps your whole body relax, and so you end up sleeping deeper, faster. Like I’ve noticed it myself. So wear wool socks to bed dot com.

not dot com. There’s no s there’s no website there. anyway, I’m kinda going into the weeds here. We figured out the LeVar Burton quote.

we’ve talked about some cool stuff. UIUX Pro, link it in the show notes. Claude is still offline. The the one of the things that I’m waiting for are the AI wars, where they start to war against each other. there’s a book that I love called Neuro Neuromancer by William Gibson.

Romancer William Gibson. It was released in 1984. It’s a cyberpunk science fiction novel. And it’s actually the it’s the he coined the word cyberspace. He’s literally the one that made it up. It was in that book. And then later on down the road, everyone starts using cyberspace. And then they created this cyberpunk, you know, genre. He kind of like pioneered it. Him and Philip K. Dick and

S Neil Stevenson. I don’t know if Philip K. Dick is in this same category. Neil Stevenson and yeah, I would say that. Neil Stevenson, who wrote a really famous book called Snow Crash, and then Philip K. Dick is an amazing author. He wrote a book called Do Android Dreams of Electric Sheep, and that came out in this 1968. So

So Philip K. Dick is an as he’s the f grandfather to William Gibson and Neil Stevenson. I don’t know how old they are. He’s probably not he may not be as old as those guys. So Philip K. Dick, and then let’s look at William Gibson and we’ll look at

Neil Stevenson? Neil Neil Stevenson writer. He’s sixty-six. So

Okay, so that’s that’s sad. Philip K. Dick passed away. He was fifty-three. He died in nineteen eighty-two. Neil Stevenson is sixty-six. And it doesn’t really say where he lives. Still alive? I don’t haven’t followed any of his newer work or fe I don’t know if he’s still to see if he’s written anything recently. De Heavy Water, I guess is a new one.

Cool, that’s the one that’s showing up right on the main homepage. And f William Gibson is he’s got some new stuff out. There was a C a series on HBO, I think, called the Periphery or Peripheral. Pi Peripheral, like peripheral vision. That’s his new series. It’s really good.

I haven’t read the book. I bought it on Kindle. I need to do that. That’s I should that’s a that’s gonna be a thing now for me. So I need to to keep making notes. I William Gibson should already be in my brain archive.

Okay, Dick, every time I mention a name and a a book, title, anything, my AI army.

Is automatically, automagically cataloging everything and helping me cite things, and then it creates a cool landing page and stuff. And I just got a text from a friend of mine that I sent the podcast to. I haven’t really sent the whole post podcast out to many people yet. Old friend of mine, Kyle, big shout out to Kyle. He said, don’t worry, don’t rem don’t forget I’m a public author too. And I I’m sorry, I forgot Kyle.

but yeah, my friend Kyle’s written a book, my friend James has written a book, my friend Eric has written books. So like they’ve you know I’ve got friends that are authors already, and it is is a hard thing. So that’s from episode one. Shout out to Kyle. He was one of he was in my wedding party. to do actual work now. I’ve been up for five hours.

I walked the dogs two miles-ish, had to cut the walk a little shorter, went to the 5 a.m. class, lifted weights, came back, drank some coffee, worked on stuff, and now it’s time to switch into put the businessman hat on and do client work. So it’s been fun. Thank you for coming on this journey. I have a I do have a recording from the dog walk. So I don’t know. I’m trying to figure out the best way to stitch all of these together because

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Some of them have a different feel. I have like the daily record kind of thing. This one was more of a random thoughts because Claude was offline, so I had to switch modes, and then it kind of took me down a tangent. This is gonna be random. I have a website, ouchieorigami.com. currently it’s not up yet. You’ll go there, you’re gonna get an you’re gonna get a

DNS error from Cloudflare because I’m s I switched the domain to a new account. I’m doing some infrastructure shakeups, getting my my shit together when it comes to some things. So don’t go there now. It’s not online, but it will be the home of

my ouchie origami site where I have the show notes and all the things. And so every episode will be logged. If there that you want to, you can sign up for notifications via email. There’ll be an RSS. There’s a lot of I’m gonna be publishing articles and things that I’m writing. And then I’m also gonna be cataloging all of the things I mentioned. So when you l listen to this one there will be LeVar Burton quote. So you don’t have to take my word for it. And that’s all how close. So

This is the Ouchie Origami podcast. It is the best podcast in the world. But you don’t have to take my word for it.