soft skills enforcer
In my latest blog post, I share the verbatim transcript of Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney 's Davos 2026 speech, where he warns of a world order rupture and quotes Thucydides: "the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must."
Unfolding this reference Carney kept folded, it echoes Athens' brutal invasion of Melos—executing men and enslaving women and children—raising parallels to potential US violence against weaker nations.
Endurance is a gripping, real-life lesson in resilience and leadership. Happy New Year — I'm starting a "2025 readings" series, and this is the first pick.
https://en.socratic.dev/alfred-lansing-endurance-shackletons-incredible-voyage-1959/
Remember when "Let me Google that for you" taught us search etiquette? @herzog says we need a new lesson for the AI era: stop citing LLMs like they're experts.
https://en.socratic.dev/stop-outsourcing-your-intelligence-to-an-llm/
🌊 Why does coding feel magical on localhost but painful in production?
The software dev cycle is like ocean tides—recognizing which phase you're in changes everything.
High tide = new projects ✨ Low tide = dependency hell 😅