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Also: for everyone saying "why can't we have this in my state?", take heart. I think something like 20-30 states are at some stage of considering a similar bill. I suspect this will spread quickly. Listen to the pod!
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Also: for everyone saying "why can't we have this in my state?", take heart. I think something like 20-30 states are at some stage of considering a similar bill. I suspect this will spread quickly. Listen to the pod!
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Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
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Our 1995 US home consumes <1/2 what it did then.
Higher eff A/C, heating, LED lighting, & new appliances, are to thank.
We paid for superior insulation at build, but expect to do 10% better with new insulation in the attic.
We added Solar recently, ~40% of use. Total grid offload is ~ 75%.
Higher eff A/C, heating, LED lighting, & new appliances, are to thank.
We paid for superior insulation at build, but expect to do 10% better with new insulation in the attic.
We added Solar recently, ~40% of use. Total grid offload is ~ 75%.
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Our 1995 US home consumes <1/2 what it did then.
Higher eff A/C, heating, LED lighting, & new appliances, are to thank.
We paid for superior insulation at build, but expect to do 10% better with new insulation in the attic.
We added Solar recently, ~40% of use. Total grid offload is ~ 75%.
Higher eff A/C, heating, LED lighting, & new appliances, are to thank.
We paid for superior insulation at build, but expect to do 10% better with new insulation in the attic.
We added Solar recently, ~40% of use. Total grid offload is ~ 75%.
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i think my main problem is that if you struggle with writing ai ensures you will never get better and also, being able to write the material feels like a necessary component of being able to evaluate and edit the output!
September 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
i think my main problem is that if you struggle with writing ai ensures you will never get better and also, being able to write the material feels like a necessary component of being able to evaluate and edit the output!
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2) Folks who could produce coherent documentation, summarize their ideas, and present them clearly and concisely were more effective in a remote-first videoconference environment. Other workers had to read and produce plans, synthesize information, and present their own ideas.
September 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
2) Folks who could produce coherent documentation, summarize their ideas, and present them clearly and concisely were more effective in a remote-first videoconference environment. Other workers had to read and produce plans, synthesize information, and present their own ideas.
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Sudden switch to remote work I think definitely revealed a lot of middle management that was incompetent or didn't do anything which is one of the reasons there was such a heavy push to deride and end the practice bsky.app/profile/sara...
1) I saw managers and engineers who had reading or writing difficulties either due to habit or limited English proficiency penalized by early COVID exigencies which demanded asynchronous communication and documentation.
Suddenly, shouting and hoping the audience understood didn't work.
Suddenly, shouting and hoping the audience understood didn't work.
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
September 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Sudden switch to remote work I think definitely revealed a lot of middle management that was incompetent or didn't do anything which is one of the reasons there was such a heavy push to deride and end the practice bsky.app/profile/sara...
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I’ve always struggled with reading and especially writing. It’s fucking torture. I can do it, but my brain hates it. I’ve found other ways to get the information, but nothing has ever helped me write. I don’t need to write much anymore, but if I did I would be thanking the gods for Ai
September 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I’ve always struggled with reading and especially writing. It’s fucking torture. I can do it, but my brain hates it. I’ve found other ways to get the information, but nothing has ever helped me write. I don’t need to write much anymore, but if I did I would be thanking the gods for Ai
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That's kinda mind-blowing in some ways when you think about how vital literacy skills are to actually performing management jobs, then you remember how most people wound up in management jobs...
September 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
That's kinda mind-blowing in some ways when you think about how vital literacy skills are to actually performing management jobs, then you remember how most people wound up in management jobs...
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Yep and everything we know about human psychology point to people will rely on it way too much regardless of how it's marketed or whatever (automation bias, it's something known for the longest time just completely boosted by llms)
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yep and everything we know about human psychology point to people will rely on it way too much regardless of how it's marketed or whatever (automation bias, it's something known for the longest time just completely boosted by llms)
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that said basically nobody has a previous way of dealing with something that is unreliable in this exact way. it's a fucking bizarre piece of tech that resembles nothing that existed previously in how you have to handle it
September 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
that said basically nobody has a previous way of dealing with something that is unreliable in this exact way. it's a fucking bizarre piece of tech that resembles nothing that existed previously in how you have to handle it