Things I've made and done

It has been said that a novel user interface idea is not a durable differentiator for a product. The cycle is like this. An idea is conceived and integrated into a product. It provides value to the users of the product, and, initially, brings market differentiation and success to the product. But then it’s copied into other products and the...

I used to believe that every book has an objective value. And I used to believe that this value is fixed and universal. Now, I believe it’s much more useful to say something in this form: this book has this value to this person in this context. For example, Mindset by Carol Dweck was life changing to me when I read it in 2016. The “me” part is...

I made an Apple Shortcut for ChatGPT. I use it on my: Apple Watch - “Hey Siri, talk to GPT”. Mac - run the shortcut and type into a text box. iPhone - talk or type. You can use this shortcut too! Get an OpenAI API key. Install the shortcut by visiting this link on your Mac or iPhone. Enter your API key. Privacy The API key will remain...

See the books I’ve read on GoodReads. My bookshelves:

I set up my GPT-3 account so I can text with it over SMS. It’s pretty fun. To build this, I combined Airtable and Twilio. Here’s how it works: I text my query to a Twilio phone number. E.g. “What is a good thing to reflect on as I fall asleep?” Twilio receives the text and sends a webhook with the query to Airtable. Airtable receives the...