The single biggest dilemma facing me for my next big project is whether to choose a city where I already know a lot of people, or to do it somewhere with cheaper real estate where I would have to convince people to move.
I guess this is common to many real estate decisions...
Two grand masters were randomly assigned the Chess960 configuration where the queen and king are swapped. The resulting game is fundamentally identical to normal chess.
Maybe we should play Chess958 instead?
Knowing I'll be in MA for at least the next five months, and down to less than one court appearance per week, this is the most stability I've had in a while. I think it's time to look for work again. I'll probably be mostly looking at hybrid roles in NYC and Boston.
We're going to trial in September, then I hope to finally be able to sell my house and escape my own personal hell. I've reached out to potential witnesses, but may have missed some. If you visited Estate of Mind in 2024 after the fire, please get in touch and remind me.
I think we had already lost the battle for forcing AI chatbots to identify themselves and not claim to be human when we allowed human assistants to impersonate their client/boss with no disclosure.
Another hearing day in court. Another few days/weeks/months to wait for a decision. Another likely denial of my motion without telling me what they disagreed with, and my needing to file multiple other things trying to figure it out and address it. I hate our legal system.
An adrenaline-pumping way to start the afternoon is with a fire at my house that already burned. Sparks from the neighbors' grill ignited some dry leaves and grass. All is well now, and that patch of lawn will be very well fertilized when it grows back this spring.
There are two kinds of "mess"/"dirty"/etc in a home.
Clutter is worse when it's bigger or more visible, and is unchanged by time.
Food/etc is worse when it's less visible, and gets much worse if left alone.
It's hard to effectively discuss "mess" without naming this distinction.
Another 6+ hour day dedicated to court appearances. Another day of no progress. Both cases today were postponed another five months because the guy who is in jail after stealing from me and threatening me and attacking me says he didn't get notice of court dates in jail.
Suppose there are 100k non-citizens voting illegally in the US, and our plan to stop them will also prevent 5 citizens from voting. Is that an acceptable outcome? How about 500? 50000? Discussing specific policy is mostly useless if we can't agree on this threshold value.
