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Forrest Brazeal
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Cofounder at Freeman & Forrest, author, cartoonist, and Pwnie Award-winning songwriter. Ex-Google. Here to help.
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This is the wildest screenshot I've ever shared in my life.

Somehow, my debut novel has sold to Ballantine / Penguin Random House.

The elevator pitch is simple: what if Silicon Valley invented the time machine?

Look for the book in stores next year! newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/breaking-s...
I feel like the biggest takeaway from the latest AWS outage is that there’s simply no architecting around them at this point. Even if you are 100% redundant/multi-whatever, your vendors and customers are certainly not. Order volume is dropping no matter what you do. We’re all in this together.
Watching an old musical that includes some fight choreography. And I’m again confronted with the sad fact that in modern movies, our fighting looks better but our dancing has gotten much worse. 😢
it's 9 am on a Wednesday and my 3 year old is chilling in pajamas, eating a cup of noodles and watching Spiderman. How do I tell her it only goes downhill from here
naming things Charity Majors is truly one of the hardest problems in computer science
There is no such thing as a children’s book
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
I’m a pretty diehard Tigers fan but I have to admit that a Mariners-Blue Jays ALCS would be insane. I’ve been to Blue Jays games in Seattle before. The crowd is 65% Canadians who sneak down from Vancouver. That playoff atmosphere would be unlike any other.
“Please do not adjust your seat and ask a crew member for assistance” is a grammatically ambiguous instruction. So you want me to do neither of those things? Or I can adjust as long as I don’t ask? Or I can ask if I don’t adjust?

Please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks this every time I fly
Planning to stop by All Things Open in Raleigh next week - who else will be there? Would love to say hi and catch up in person!
Apparently the Girl Scouts now give out corporate-sponsored badges which you can earn by completing key life skills challenges like going to see Gabby’s Dollhouse The Movie.

Seems fine
It’s a tough call. You want to max out his at-bats while resting him. But on the other hand, his OPS is like 150 points higher when he catches. Does that matter when he’s chasing the AL HR record?

(Spoken as a die-hard Tigers fan who would much rather think about the Mariners at the moment)
Realizing our business needs rapture contingency planning. 🤔
pronouncing “vegemite” like “Yosemite” to own the libs
at last, a sign that will REALLY piss off your Southern neighbors
Heartbroken, utterly shattered, to report that today I structured some data and retrieved an actionable business insight
who called it "silicon valley office decor" and not faang shui
May all of our future Wikipedia intros go this hard
Watching Lady & the Tramp with my kids on Disney+. I am STUNNED by how gorgeous the full CinemaScope frame is compared to the pan&scan VHS prints I remember watching on square tube TVs.

Seriously, go rewatch the animated classics in widescreen if you haven’t! That art is too beautiful to miss.
A lot of people assumed LLMs would drown out human creators with an infinite buffet of fresh content.

In reality they produce ONE kind of content: AI slop. And slop loses its novelty fast, no matter what stylistic sugar is on top.

There’s never been a better time to share your own thoughts.
Ironic: as LLMs make writing much easier, I am finding not more, but less interesting and novel things to read online.

And so I keep paying more attention to the fewer people who still write their original thoughts (without LLMs - you can tell how repetitive it gets with them)
Reposted by Forrest Brazeal
Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
A common social media interaction I will never understand:

Person A: makes easily disproved false claim

Person B: “that’s wrong, here is the correct fact+source.”

Person A: “OK, but my point stands.”

wtf no it doesn’t
a thing about James Dobson is that — unusually for his time — he encouraged evangelicals to go get therapy

Meanwhile the rest of his teachings put millions of people in need of therapy

Dobson was a therapist

RIP to a master of vertical integration
the vibes are shifting

bullish on professional software engineers