Plenty of content from authors I admire, a few of whom are casual acquaintances. Just not so much from people I'm closer to.

All those statements can be true at the same time.

Attempts to update to the newest runtime that was allowed failed completely. It seems it will be easier (and much cheaper) to simply migrate to a different service off of GCP.

In case you haven't seen it:

steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-...

That does seem to be true. Now that you mention it, I can't think of any books like that I have read, but I'd certainly like to. I love books about hot messes. (E.g. Shopaholic) but why do they all seem to be about white women? Please drop titles here if anyone knows more diverse hot messes to read.

Physics envy is indeed a little weird. It struck me that your examples are tech billionaires. I've also encountered this dysfunction in non-billionaire programmer types, and haven't noticed it in non-tech billionaires, but maybe I haven't been looking.

Hi :-)

And seriously, cut out this disingenuous bullshit. If someone says “I want United Health to not do murder, and for us to call what they do murder” that isn’t a call for more murder. It’s a call for less.

I do understand why we shouldn't be using the name "Audubon" any more, but we truly didn't need to change it to something so prosaic and ugly.