Architect at @OpenScopeStudio. Working in SF + LA. Housing, bikes, London, Buffalo. Also https://xitter.cf/t.co/np5axMgRkX
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People on here claiming it takes 3 hours to paint a furnished living room have either never painted a room or have never done a remotely passable job of it
This should be as a percentage of home value and if also doesnt take into account that most elderly property owners in Calif barely pay any taxes thanks to Prop 13...
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Except in CA where our electricity is (shockingly) more overpriced than our gas.
Orwellian arguments, fuzzy math and a hippie cult: This is the dawning of the S.F. midterm election: “You cannot legislate a solution to a problem that is fundamentally a management problem. It requires good management” - @EskSF missionlocal.org/2026/10/dan… via @MLNow
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If you find a good drywall guy, hold him close. Watch his kids. Wash his car. Whatever it takes. Go into debt if you have to.
We had a warranty call on a mini split and had to open the wall. Yay. HVAC plus drywall and paint $1060. 🚮
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We spent $600B - $1.2T in real dollars fixing Y2K. It was a huge effort!
The lack of major problems from Y2K was more a result of solid preparation than misplaced fears.
Here is one for @bobbyfijan
The average new car payment is now almost $1000?!
29% of trade-ins have negative equity. Yikes
I don’t understand how people go on vacation when they have that much debt
But this is fundamentally why being upper middle class means nothing. You’re competing with everyone willing to take on endless debt for a lot of experiences and perceived status or class / quality of life
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WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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Claude can no longer “Reverse Engineer Anything.”
Anthropic just quietly killed REA.
But Interesting timing.
After a few viral cases of people using Claude to reverse-engineer Samsung TV firmware and identify data-collection services, Anthropic appears to have restricted those reverse-engineering abilities.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
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Pretty cool to have an app like X where everyone knows exactly what’s going to happen over the 18-24 months.
Makes business so much easier!
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Don't forget he also popularized the concepts of exploded view drawings of mechanical inventions and anatomy.
He also painted what is considered to be the first true landscape painting.
He called himself a discipline of experience. And he wrote backwards in a mirror script.
Leonardo da Vinci created the first ever
"satellite view" map in 1502 of Imola, Italy.
He did this by manually measuring the angles and distance of every corner on every building in the city.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Leonardo’s 1502 Imola map was not the first overhead city plan. The Forma Urbis of Rome, made in 203–211 CE, mapped every building’s ground plan at 1:240 scale. Leonardo’s work was a surveyed Renaissance plan, but calling it the first “satellite view” is inaccurate.
formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/FURmap.ht…
rct.uk/collection/912…
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#CustomCabinets:
If you buy factory cabinets from a store you may not know this happens:
The custom cabinet designer (shop owner typically) has been onsite several times measuring openings, ceiling heights, plumbing stub locations, clearances etc.
Custom cabinets are delivered to jobsite within a few inches of install spot by people who care because they made them. "please take care of my babies"
Precut to size Baltic birch "rough tops" are stacked nearby with identifying location marks
Prefabricated island top w overhang has steel reinforcement installed already.
The "packing" blankets leave with the delivery crew (no dumpster's worth of cardboard to remove and dispose of)
The cabinets are overall taller to account for finished floor thickness installed after.
No color matched laminate sides or trim pieces show up waiting to fade later.
There's a name on the hardware & it doesn't look the same.
(photo from 2020 project)
"The best leaders aren’t just prompting for engagement.
They’re holding space for their own baseline brain function."
Most leaders are letting AI write their LinkedIn posts.
That’s a mistake.
Not because the technology lacks capability.
Because leadership requires something deeper.
Yesterday, between reviewing quarterly priorities and asking Claude to summarize a document I had already summarized with Claude, I paused.
Something felt off.
The insights were actionable.
The tensions were nuanced.
The tapestry was deeply human.
And yet.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that we were losing something essential: the courage to have a thought before formatting it.
Three tensions emerged:
→ The authenticity paradox. We’ve never had more tools to amplify our voices. We’ve never sounded more like the same regional vice president.
→ The frictionless mirage. We’re turning hard-won operational scar tissue into “a powerful reminder.” Sometimes the reminder is that a vendor didn’t show up
→ The curated surrender. We’re outsourcing our most personal convictions to a model that just helped someone else write the opposite conviction with equal depth.
I’ve been sitting with this.
Not solving.
Not optimizing.
Just sitting.
Because true leadership isn’t about outsourcing linguistic patterns that resonate.
It’s about opening a blank document, confronting the complexity of your own experience, and asking Sonnet to make it sound less AI-generated.
The best leaders aren’t just prompting for engagement.
They’re holding space for their own baseline brain function.
How is your team leaning into bespoke cognitive friction this quarter?
♻️ Repost to help someone reclaim their authentic voice using these exact words.
