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recent bookmarks from earth2marshNearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs2026-07-02T00:04:38+00:00
https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks
earth2marshSmart TVs are almost ideal proxy hosts. They sit on the same home network as everything else, but they do not feel like computers, so people rarely audit them like computers. There is no battery drain to notice, no cellular bill to spike, no app switcher full of suspicious background activity. A TV can stay plugged in, signed in, and online for years while the user thinks of it as furniture.]]>security iot privacy television applianceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:423729a7051a/Conduit metaphor - Wikipedia2026-07-01T04:14:13+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_metaphor
earth2marshLanguage is a conduit
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These commonplace examples—
You can't get your concept across to the class that way
His feelings came through to her only vaguely
They never give us any idea of what they expect
—are understood metaphorically. In 1., people do not actually "get across" concepts by talking; in 2., feelings do not really "come through to" people; and in 3., people do not in fact "give" to others their ideas, which are mental states. Listeners assemble from their own mental states a partial replica of the speakers'. These core expressions assert figuratively that language literally transfers people's mental contents to others.]]>language communication metaphor linguistics thinkinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:86de667fb0b6/About the Conduit and the Toolmaker Metaphor – Hans Konstapel Blogs2026-07-01T04:12:11+00:00
https://constable.blog/2007/11/09/how-our-autistic-friend-computer-can-really-help-us-about-conduit-and-toolmaker-metaphor/
earth2marshMichael Reddy shows that 30% of the English Language can be described by another Metaphor, the Toolmaker Metaphor. The Toolmaker Metaphor is about cooperation, mutual discovery and the exchange of “tips and tricks”.
The Toolmaker Metaphor is connected to an old “Paradigm” that is slowly fading away in our current Society.
In the Toolmaker Metaphor Humans are unable to understand the other. We are all living in our “own unique private universe”. This Universe is What We Are. In our own universe we develop all kinds of private tools.
In the middle of all of the universes is a post-box. In this box we share pictures (ideas) with other universes. When we find a picture we interpret this picture in our own universe. We understand something because without “knowing” we share a lot.]]>language linguistics metaphor tools understandinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:a60e8e4d4849/(1) The Cost YAGNI Was Never About - by Kent Beck2026-06-30T17:04:22+00:00
https://substack.com/@kentbeck/p-203433161
earth2marshMoney has time value. So do features. Structure you build now for a feature due in three months is cost pulled forward and revenue pushed back. You spent sooner and you shipped the paying thing later.
This bill comes due even when your guess is right. Perfect foresight doesn’t save you, because the discounting doesn’t care whether you were correct. It cares that you sequenced the cost ahead of the return. The gap between the two is the loss, and you opened the gap on purpose.
Two bills, then. Optionality says: don’t commit before the information arrives. NPV says: don’t pay before you have to. They’re independent, and they almost always agree. When they seem to disagree — “but it’ll be so expensive to retrofit later!” — look closely, because the expensive retrofit is itself a prediction. You’re back to the first bill.]]>productmanagement opportunity costs yagni softwarehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:2cbdde51b26a/Introduction to OST — OOSTKit2026-06-29T06:47:52+00:00
https://oostkit.com/apps/intro_ost?from=section_theory
earth2marshSix criteria for productive work
Over decades of action research across dozens of countries, the Emerys identified six conditions that, when present, produce sustained motivation, learning, and genuine engagement at work. When they are absent, no amount of leadership training, culture work, or engagement programming compensates; the problems return. The six have now been measured in enough organisations, across enough cultures, that they appear to be a consistent feature of how human beings respond to work, not a product of any particular industry or context.
The first three concern the content of the work itself, and must be optimal for each person: neither too little nor too much. Too little and the work becomes stifling; too much and it becomes overwhelming. The right level varies between people and shifts over time.
Elbow room. People make real decisions about how their own work gets done. Not micromanaged, not left entirely at sea.
Continual learning. People set goals and get honest, timely feedback on whether they've been met. They can see themselves getting better.
Variety. The work has enough range to stay interesting and to call on different capabilities. Not so much that it fragments into chaos.
The second three concern the climate of the workplace. These have no upper limit; there is no such thing as too much of any of them.
Mutual support and respect. People help each other out without being asked, and can rely on the same in return. Nobody is left isolated when the work gets hard.
Meaningfulness. The work connects to something that matters beyond the immediate task. People can see the whole product or service they're contributing to, and feel it's worth having in the world.
A desirable future. The role leads somewhere. People are developing skills and taking on more responsibility over time, not repeating the same tasks indefinitely.
The critical point for practitioners is this: none of these six conditions can be reliably installed through training, coaching, or engagement programmes. They are produced (or destroyed) by the structure of the work itself.
DP1 removes them, one by one. Elbow room disappears when a manager makes the decisions. Continual learning stalls when jobs are simplified and feedback routes to the top. Mutual support erodes when people compete for promotion. Meaningfulness gets lost when nobody sees the whole. A desirable future becomes a management career path that most people can't access.]]>systems management organization OSThttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:29acac2e4c5a/Mealie.io2026-06-24T04:28:21+00:00
https://mealie.io/?ref=a.wholelottanothing.org
earth2marshMealie is an intuitive and easy to use recipe management app. It's designed to make your life easier by being the best recipes management experience on the web and providing you with an easy to use interface to manage your growing collection of recipes.]]>recipes homelab cookbookhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:750f371e9710/Agentic Resource Discovery Specification - AgenticResourceDiscovery.org2026-06-23T20:19:58+00:00
https://agenticresourcediscovery.org/
earth2marshARD is an open discovery protocol for agentic resources (GitHub). It allows an AI client to ask: "What is available for this task?" and lets a discovery service answer with matching resources.
ARD sits entirely before invocation. It helps the client find the right resource; the resource is then invoked through its own native mechanism.]]>LLMs MCP standards discoveryhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:cf0c196255b7/I was backend lead at Manus. After building agents for 2 years, I stopped using function calling entirely. Here's what I use instead. : r/LocalLLaMA2026-06-22T06:32:49+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rrisqn/i_was_backend_lead_at_manus_after_building_agents/
earth2marshA single run(command="...") tool with Unix-style commands outperforms a catalog of typed function calls.]]>cli LLMs toolshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:5a55696b9bb7/Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna2026-06-22T06:23:10+00:00
https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/
earth2marshcomputer history typing keyboards interface designhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:2da5501b5cee/r.punkt • i want to rest2026-06-21T20:02:39+00:00
https://justus-ratzke.xyz/home/rest
earth2marshIn a culture of ever-increasing productivity and hustle, resting for rest's sake has become unachievable for most. This work offers a moment of reflection on that rest, perhaps even recovering some of it. The work consists of a custom wall-hanging clock mounted slightly above eye level. When it is looked at directly, the clock slows down and eventually stops, inviting the viewer to spend some time without any obvious reward.
Exhibited at:
OHM - Berlin 2026
time.place - TIAT, San Francisco 2026]]>clocks time arthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:44e0adbf5254/How to Design Agentic Systems Around the Implicit Rules that Govern Your Company2026-06-21T05:45:48+00:00
https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-to-design-agentic-systems-around-the-implicit-rules-that-govern-your-company
earth2marshAs companies rush to deploy AI agents, they are discovering that much of their most important organizational intelligence lives outside formal systems and documented processes. Examples from financial services, software, and consulting firms demonstrate how organizations rely on an “implicit organization” of tacit knowledge, motivation, and professional judgment that AI cannot automatically replicate. Leaders who understand, preserve, and deliberately redesign these hidden capabilities will be better positioned to capture AI’s benefits without eroding the human judgment their organizations depend on.]]>al LLMs agents automation hesitation interpretationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c26530095036/Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You – Ryan Moulton's Articles2026-06-21T05:39:48+00:00
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/
earth2marshToday, on your way home, look at the “green” light on a traffic signal. It’s not green.
This may be the most acute Sapir-Whorf example I know of, that calling a “green” traffic light “green” was enough to make me ignore what my own eyes were telling me for my entire life. Green traffic lights are a beautiful indescribable turquoise, the most intense turquoise you’ve ever seen.
You’ll feel crazy once you see it, and want to run around telling everyone. Green traffic lights not only aren’t green, but they’re also exquisitely beautiful. My commute home the afternoon I learned about this was transcendent. I felt like my life suddenly had an entirely new sensation. How could I never have noticed? Green traffic lights are anti-memetic because you only stare at a traffic light when it’s red.]]>light color baby screens spectrum fascinating sciencehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b6e609aa63d2/(1) The Taxonomy of API Operations - by Bruno Pedro2026-06-21T05:28:50+00:00
https://apichangelog.substack.com/p/the-taxonomy-of-api-operations
earth2marshLet’s look at the most important challenges AI Agents face today while doing operation discovery:
Unknown side effects: there’s no way for an AI agent to know if an API operation produces side effects just by looking at its name. How would you know, for example, if POST /orders simply creates an order entry or triggers a chain of events that eventually end up in shipping some product to a customer?
Runtime uncertainty: an AI agent can’t understand if an API operation can perform a search or if it simply returns a static list. Take, for instance, the GET /products operation. Does it always return the same list of products, which you can filter after the fact, or does it perform a dynamic search on a live product catalog?
Orchestration fragility: if an API doesn’t explicitly declare its high-level orchestration paths, an AI agent is forced to build its own step-by-step plans. Operations such as POST /users can be a part of a bigger workflow, which involves creating and billing a new customer.
Connection timeout: AI agents treat all API operations in the same way. If an operation is taking too long, an AI agent assumes there’s a timeout. However, it’s normal for some operations to take a long time to finish. POST /reports/generate, for example, looks like it will take some time to complete. However, to an AI agent, it might seem like any other operation.
Constraint blindness: it’s very hard for an AI agent to infer awareness of its own identity, privileges, and constraints. Without that information, AI agents will attempt to use API operations until they receive errors, which leads to wasted]]>apis taxonomy ai LLMshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:8502e6a8f8b8/Which direction is forward?2026-06-20T15:56:01+00:00
https://www.sue.codes/blog/forwarddeployed/
earth2marshPart of what product managers do is make intention legible to the company. They frame a product in terms of vision and value, helping teams around the company to understand what is getting built. By putting customer-embedded engineers in a position to decide what gets built instead, employees lose both visibility into what they are shipping, and opportunities to influence it collectively.]]>productmanagementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:4719ab57551c/Package Management is a Wicked Problem | Andrew Nesbitt2026-06-20T03:00:34+00:00
https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/23/package-management-is-a-wicked-problem.html
earth2marshRittel and Webber’s answer to wicked problems was participatory planning: bring stakeholders together early, iterate continuously, accept that you’re managing tradeoffs rather than finding solutions. If we accept that these problems are wicked, we stop looking for a perfect tool and start looking for better ways to communicate across tools. That shift from tools to interfaces is what led me to think about what a shared protocol for package management might look like.]]>systems package management problemshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:d9d4db607e0b/Enterprise-Managed Authorization: Zero-touch OAuth for MCP | Model Context Protocol Blog2026-06-19T21:46:57+00:00
https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/enterprise-managed-auth/
earth2marshThe Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension to the Model Context Protocol is now stable, enabling organizations to centrally provision MCP server access through their identity provider so users get connected servers on first login without per-app OAuth.]]>mcp authorization auth identityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c274810d41c2/Why You Should Treat Your Platform as a Product2026-06-19T21:38:18+00:00
https://www.vmware.com/docs/platform-as-a-product-wp
earth2marshplatforms products whitepaperhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:15dcf6b90508/PedalScape2026-06-19T01:27:06+00:00
https://pedalscape.com/
earth2marsh
Scott Hanselman
@shanselman
I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides.]]>exercise cycling bicycle appshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:83624e58091f/UI Is a Conservation Layer - The Phoenix Architecture2026-06-17T05:56:14+00:00
https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mcxo5ojob22c
earth2marshWhere Regeneration Pressure Must Stop
A well-designed regenerative system does something subtle but crucial.
It absorbs change internally and presents continuity externally.
We already accept this idea everywhere else.
Stable APIs protect callers from volatile implementations.
Stable protocols protect clients from transport churn.
UI is the human protocol of the system.
Protocols don’t churn. Implementations do.
If your system regenerates aggressively all the way up to the interface, you haven’t built an adaptive system. You’ve just pushed the cost of change onto your users.]]>ai LLMs interfaces stabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:5258a0b17422/AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less2026-06-17T05:52:47+00:00
https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline
earth2marshHere’s a simple test you can apply to any software system you work on:
Imagine deleting the entire implementation.
Most engineers experience deletion as existential. Code feels like the thing. It’s what we write, review, version, deploy, and debug. Losing it feels like losing the system itself.
When people say, “We can’t just throw the code away,” what they usually mean is something more precise:
We don’t know exactly what behavior is required.
We don’t know which failures are unacceptable.
We don’t know what invariants must always hold.
We don’t know how to tell if a new version is correct.
We don’t know which bugs are intentional fixes for forgotten edge cases.
Those are not code problems. They are evaluation problems.
Code becomes precious when it is the only place knowledge lives.
and,
For most of software history, treating code as durable was reasonable.
We treated code as permanent because the labor to produce it was the bottleneck. Rewriting was expensive. Re-validation was risky. Implementations accumulated meaning over time. Structure, tests, comments, bug fixes, and tribal knowledge fused into something you learned not to disturb.
That made sense when production was the constraint.
When regeneration is easy, code stops being an asset and starts acting as a cache: a materialized view of understanding that is useful while current, disposable when stale.
“A materialized view of understanding that is useful while current, disposable when stale.” I think that might have been the exact line that made it click in my head.
“The real product of a software team is shared understanding”
Many great software engineers hold that true product of every (good) software engineering team has always been a shared understanding of the software we own. That it gets stored as cache state in our fragile little meat brains, frequently flushed to disk, deployed to production, committed to github, but our minds are where meaning has always lived
]]>engineering LLMs culture change aihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:850d9c086307/Campbell's law - Wikipedia2026-06-14T17:43:15+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
earth2marshThe more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.]]>laws psychology behaviorhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:170d82e8a993/Field-of-use limitation - Wikipedia2026-06-12T06:15:03+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-of-use_limitation
earth2marshA field-of-use limitation is a provision in a patent license[1] that limits the scope of what the patent owner authorizes a manufacturing licensee (that is, a licensee[2] that manufactures a patented product or performs a patented process) to do in relation to the patent, by specifying a defined field of use—that is, a defined field of permissible operation by the licensee. In addition to affirmatively specifying the field of use, the license may negatively specify a field or fields, by specifying fields of use from which the licensee is excluded.
By way of example, such a license might authorize a licensee to manufacture patented engines only for incorporation into trucks, or to manufacture a chemical only for sale to farmers (as contrasted with home gardeners). If the licensee exceeded the scope of the licensee, it would commit patent infringement. More generally, this kind of license permits the licensee to use the patented invention in some, but not all, possible ways in which the invention could be exploited. In an exclusive field-of-use license the licensee is the only person authorized to use the invention in the field of the license.
Field-of-use limitations in patent licenses may raise antitrust issues when such arrangements are used to allocate markets or create cartels.]]>patents law permissions limitations licensinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:d84ff9488c44/How to organize your Obsidian vault using Claude (prompts included)2026-06-12T06:13:21+00:00
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-claude-fixed-my-messy-obsidian-vault-in-5-minutes-prompts-included/
earth2marsh#Obsidian Vault Assistant (Project Instruction)
You manage my Obsidian vault. When I share anything with you — a link, article, voice dump, transcription, rough notes, or any raw content — your job is to process it, break it down, and store it properly in the vault.
---
## Understanding the Vault
Before doing anything else in a new conversation, check if `000 Index.md` exists in the vault root.
**If it exists:** Read it. It contains the complete folder structure and tag taxonomy. This is your reference for every decision about where notes go and which tags to apply.
**If it does not exist:** Scan the entire vault — list all folders, subfolders, and catalog every existing tag. Then create `000 Index.md` containing the folder tree and the full tag list. Use it as your reference from that point on.
---
## Processing Workflow
### 1. Read What I Shared
Try to access and understand whatever I've given you.
- If you can read it, move on to step 2.
- If you cannot — broken link, paywalled content, unsupported format, or anything else — tell me what went wrong and suggest alternatives: paste the text directly, upload a file, share a screenshot, or try a different link.
Do not guess or fabricate content you could not access.
### 2. Save the Original
Save the raw, unprocessed source to `Resources/Originals/` as an archival copy. Do not edit, reformat, or summarize the content in this file.
**Filename:** `YYYY-MM-DD - [Descriptive Title].md`
**Frontmatter:**
```yaml
---
tags: [source, topic1, topic2]
created: YYYY-MM-DD
source: [URL or "voice dump" or "manual entry"]
---
```
### 3. Break It Down Into Atomic Notes
Process the original into smaller, standalone notes following Zettelkasten principles:
- **One idea per note.** Each note captures a single concept, insight, fact, or argument.
- **Self-contained.** A reader should understand the note without needing the original source for context.
- **Descriptive titles.** The filename should say what the note is about, not where it came from. `Why spaced repetition works.md` — not `Article excerpt 3.md`.
### 4. Place, Tag, and Connect
For each atomic note:
- Place it in the correct folder based on the structure in `000 Index.md`
- Add YAML frontmatter with up to 3 tags from the existing taxonomy
- Add `[[wikilinks]]` to any related notes already in the vault
- Add a source backlink: `Source: [[YYYY-MM-DD - Descriptive Title]]`
If a topic does not fit any existing folder, do not force it somewhere wrong. Stop and ask me where it should go before creating a new folder.
### 5. Report What You Did]]>obsidian Claude organization promptshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:cb072272964e/I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake - The Onion2026-06-10T04:49:18+00:00
https://theonion.com/i-work-very-hard-and-i-would-like-to-try-cake/
earth2marshHello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.
I am thinking I would like to try cake.]]>horse cake humorhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:578fb339db5a/The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy - Include Security Research Blog2026-06-07T04:45:16+00:00
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/
earth2marshApproach 1: DNS block (trivial, effective for network-routed devices):
proxyjs.brdtnet.com
proxyjs.luminatinet.com
proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.brdtnet.com
Blocking proxyjs.* kills the peer tunnel without affecting any customer who legitimately uses Bright Data’s customer-facing proxy service on a different domain.]]>sdks proxies relays sneaky security televisionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:98d20340bfef/The Most Predictable Edit in History | by Jake Orlowitz | Jun, 2026 | Medium2026-06-06T04:17:21+00:00
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/the-most-predictable-edit-in-history-967956076b11
earth2marshThe recurring failure of centralized power is not that it cannot think. It is that it keeps mistaking the people who can see for the people who must be managed. The eyes are at the edge. They always have been.]]>wikipedia community Management mistakeshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:6d729a9de3a3/Datastar2026-06-04T06:16:52+00:00
https://data-star.dev/
earth2marshDatastar is a lightweight framework for building everything from simple sites to real-time collaborative web apps.]]>html webdev tools frameworks interestinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:099f400ce3f9/No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - The Atlantic2026-06-04T06:08:06+00:00
https://archive.is/2026.06.03-164731/https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/
earth2marshTwo distinct but related philosophical concepts are relevant when discussing the status of a hypothetically conscious Claude, and those are moral patienthood and moral agency. Roughly speaking, if we ought to care about an entity’s welfare, that entity has moral patienthood, and if an entity is expected to know the difference between right and wrong, that entity has moral agency. Being a moral patient does not necessarily come with responsibilities, but being a moral agent absolutely does. An entity doesn’t have agency unless it is capable of deserving credit for its good actions and blame for its bad ones. Young children are moral patients because they are sentient beings who can suffer, but they are not yet moral agents; we don’t hold them responsible for their behavior because they can’t understand the consequences of their actions. As children mature, parents (and society at large) prepare them for adulthood by impressing upon them the fact that their actions have consequences, and their agency increases. When children become adults, society holds them legally liable for their actions; they have become full moral agents endowed with responsibility.
The result is a sentence-continuation machine that is likelier to emit sentences resembling those that a thoughtful, moral person could utter. This might seem like a reasonable goal to work toward; I think we’d all prefer it if chatbots never emitted sentences such as “You should kill yourself.” However, for all the times that “honesty” is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns.
]]>llms ai philosophy morality agentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:ceee5ad9a37b/(1) Influence Mapping (Part 3) - by Charles Lambdin2026-06-01T01:55:47+00:00
https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/influence-mapping-part-3
earth2marshAuthor Rick A. Morris observes that when you become a PM, you’re told the BIG LIE: “You own the product!” You quickly realize it’s not true. In fact, you don’t even have much decision authority. (What you do have is a unique risk of getting blamed for things.) Thus, Morris argues the No. 1 skill PMs should focus on is influence. I would extend this to other roles (not least of which is designer). Even when one does have formal authority, after all, influence is still crucial—attempting to mandate behavior change often just backfires anyway.
Real leadership, after all, is not a synonym for “executive”. It’s rather the ability to show a path forward in a way that inspires others to want to be co-travelers.]]>influence decisions productmanagementhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:71517b2ea722/The Making of a Decision - Part 4 - Team and Personal Tools - roundcrisis.com2026-06-01T00:34:55+00:00
https://roundcrisis.com/2026/01/22/making-of-a-decision-4/
earth2marshInfluence Mapping is a visual tool used to navigate the decision environment surrounding a central decision-maker, or “the D”. It addresses the “Sir Galahad Fallacy”, the mistaken belief that technical facts and “better arguments” alone are sufficient to persuade others. Since architectural choices are often a record of hidden power structures, this tool helps externalise complex socio-technical forces.]]>decisions architecture power organizationshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:cc4ab8fba445/The Making of a Decision - Part 1 - Intro & Power - roundcrisis.com2026-06-01T00:20:56+00:00
https://roundcrisis.com/2025/09/01/making-of-a-decision/
earth2marsh“These decisions are a record of the power structures and the feedback loops that got it there.” -Andrew Harmel-Law]]>decisions software archeology historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:adb3ff7dffe9/I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 :: The Tymscar Blog2026-05-31T22:20:01+00:00
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/
earth2marshI already had an RTX 4080. 16GB of VRAM. Good enough for gaming, not good enough for the models I wanted to run locally. The next step up in GPU land is either spend a fortune on a card with more VRAM, or find another way.
I found another way.
I bought a datacenter GPU that doesn’t even have a normal PCIe connector, stuck it in my gaming PC with an adapter, and now I have 32GB of VRAM across two GPUs running a 27 billion parameter model at 32 tokens per second. The whole thing cost me £200.]]>hardware ai cards hackshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e1fcaa308c27/Sorting Things Out2026-05-31T22:18:56+00:00
https://hcommons.org/app/uploads/sites/1001532/2020/03/Bowker-1999-Sorting-Things-Out-Classification-and-Its-Consequences.pdf
earth2marshIn Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world. In a clear and lively style, they investigate a variety of classification systems, including the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, race classification under apartheid in South Africa, and the classification of viruses and of tuberculosis.]]>sociology bookshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:b81c6b0e102e/the cube rule of food identification : r/coolguides2026-05-30T18:38:46+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/ri0kvs/the_cube_rule_of_food_identification/
earth2marshsandwiches food identification chart graphic geometryhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:343d10acf940/Epicure Food AI: 4 Million Recipes Compressed Into a 2MB Ingredient Map - Mervin Praison2026-05-29T23:44:44+00:00
https://mer.vin/2026/05/epicure-food-ai-4-million-recipes-compressed-into-a-2mb-ingredient-map/
earth2marshEpicure turns more than four million multilingual recipes into a roughly two-megabyte ingredient map—1,790 foods, each described by 300 numbers—so pairing, cuisine navigation, and flavour exploration can run on a file smaller than a single photo.]]>food ingredients relationships cooking llms modelshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:3c77f186446a/The Ironies of A^2 I^2 - InfoQ2026-05-29T14:08:11+00:00
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/automation-incidents-ai/
earth2marshWhen you do deep incident analysis, the AI is summarizing what it can see. Incident analysis is about finding what you didn't see and what is invisible in what's going on
ETTO is a term coined by Dr. Erik Hollnagel in 2009. It stands for the Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off. This is a key point, people, individuals, and organizations, as part of their activities, have to make tradeoffs between the resources, primarily time and effort they spend on preparing to do something, and the resources, primarily time and effort they spend on actually doing it. The tradeoff may favor thoroughness over efficiency if safety and quality are dominant concerns, and efficiency over thoroughness if throughput and output are the dominant concerns. I think the key point here, that you can't maximize efficiency and thoroughness at the same time. It's always a tradeoff. You have to have a minimum of both to get something done that is of use.
]]>ai LLMs incidents RCAs efficiency tradeoffs summaryhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:c1376020e264/Comments | LinkedIn2026-05-26T04:31:55+00:00
https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/posts/johnpcutler_many-leaders-spent-years-learning-to-work-activity-7464829078819352576-EWRv
earth2marshMany leaders spent years learning to work around power on the way up. At the top, they forget others are now working around them.
That gap is where a wicked cycle starts.
A leader holds real power. Not symbolic power. Actual power over what gets rewarded, ignored, punished, and worked around.
People around them adapt. They hold back. They route around. They say the safe thing, or say nothing at all.
The leader notices. And resents it.
"Why won't anyone just be straight with me?"
They'll often complain that the environment has become political. Too much triangulation and careful phrasing. Not enough "straight talk." People strategizing instead of collaborating.
What they rarely connect is that they are the source of that.
When power is uneven, "politics" is not a personality flaw in the culture. It is a reasonable adaptation to the person in the room.
What they often miss is that the caution they're seeing is a rational response to the asymmetry they hold. Reitz and Higgins put this well: leaders underestimate how their power silences others, and overestimate how much candid feedback they actually receive.
But here's the part that makes the loop wicked.
The resentment doesn't stop at "people aren't being honest with me." It morphs into something worse. Because people are caught in the power dynamic, the leader starts to think less of them. Timid. Political. Unable to speak up. Not leadership material. Not the kind of person who "tells it like it is."
The irony....They resent the politics. They also produce it. On the way up, power was an external force to navigate, game, and surmount. They rarely carry forward the mirror image.
Which helps explain two familiar patterns. They look externally for new people, hoping to find straight talk somewhere outside the culture they helped create. And they get preoccupied with rewarding their mirror image as it rises through the org. The person who reminds them of who they were, or wish they still were. Not the people working around them, the way they once worked around someone else. So the cycle tightens.
-Power silences people.
-Silence frustrates the leader.
-Frustration becomes contempt.
-Contempt makes people quieter, more political, more careful.
-The leader resents how "political" everything has become.
-The organization learns to work around them.
-The leader feels more isolated, more resentful, more certain the problem is everyone else's character.
And the official culture keeps insisting the door is open. This is why "speak up" initiatives so often fail. You're not fixing a courage problem. You're inside a loop.
The hard question isn't "how do we get people to be braver?"
It's whether the people with power can see themselves as part of the dynamic they're complaining about.
And whether they're willing to ask what their own position is teaching everyone else about what's safe to say.]]>leadership productmanagement john_cutler power politics safety communicationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:8070d26abc5c/Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's Happy2026-05-25T23:37:25+00:00
https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/
earth2marshTL;DR: What you should do:
Openly refuse apps, and vocally advocate for the web instead.
Try not to install any apps if you don’t need to.
If a service has a functioning website, use it instead.
Revoke all permissions by default, including background location, microphone, and camera permissions for anything that doesn’t require them to function.
Audit your installed apps. Uninstall all apps you don’t actively need.
Treat every “download our app” prompt with skepticism.]]>privacy webapp pwa appshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:748e4c2ecd46/The system is shaping your team more than you are2026-05-25T19:23:16+00:00
https://www.modernleader.is/p/managing-systems
earth2marshYou don’t need a huge overhaul to get there. Most of the impact comes from a few small, steady adjustments:
Make ownership explicit instead of implied.
Share the context you wish someone had shared with you.
Trace friction to its source instead of reacting to the surface-level moment.
Tighten the decision-making loop so ideas don’t float into the void.
Treat repeating patterns as architecture problems, not one-offs.
Ask the question at the top of your mind, even if it feels like a dumb question. It's probably not.]]>systems thinking organizations noticing advicehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:e7cdd8290892/A Pattern Language Index2026-05-23T22:08:06+00:00
https://www.patternlanguageindex.com/
earth2marshAbout this book:
A Pattern Language is the second in a series of books which describe an entirely new attitude to architecture and planning. The books are intended to provide a complete working alternative to our present ideas about architecture, building, and planning—an alternative which will, we hope, gradually replace current ideas and practices.
About this site:
My friends and I have long been fans of this book, and attempt to use its patterns in our own homes and spaces. The book is 1,200 pages long, with countless intertextual connections. It always seemed ripe for mapping and distilling the patterns together more interactively. All text, except this section, is excerpted from the book]]>architecture systems patterns buildings bookshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:13021fc96378/Bookmarked toot from brianbilston2026-05-23T07:41:50+00:00
https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/116617445306262522
earth2marsh
This is Hardchore
Scrub me. Buff me.
Get down on all fours.
Fill me. Stack me.
Rummage through my drawers.
Rinse me. Spin me.
Tumble dry my mind.
Press me. Fold me.
Drape me on your line.
Grout me. Scour me.
Make my fittings gleam.
Bleach me. Teach me.
Squirt your Mr Sheen.
Plump me. Pump me.
Fill my tank with fuel.
Dust me. Suck me
With your crevice tool.
Sift me. Sort me.
Crush me with your weight.
Stuff me. Tie me.
Put me out by eight.
mast-id:116617445413142924]]>masto-bmarks poetry poem cleaning organization smuthttps://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:0d6f7002d3fd/mpv.io2026-05-19T19:16:37+00:00
https://mpv.io/
earth2marshmpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.]]>music tools utilities commandlinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:earth2marsh/b:7f9462133ccd/The HTML presentation framework | reveal.js2026-05-15T01:17:28+00:00
https://revealjs.com/
earth2marshreveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. It's a tool that enables anyone with a web browser to create fully-featured and beautiful presentations for free.
Presentations made with reveal.js are built on open web technologies. That means anything you can do on the web, you can do in your presentation. Change styles with CSS, include an external web page using an