If you haven't read Utopia 5 yet, I highly recommend it as a deeply thought-provoking exploration of some ideas around privacy and AI. Several years old now, but the ideas are as relevant as ever, if not moreso

One framing I keep on going back to is this "ask vs guess culture" back from 2017 Lead Dev talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxTX...

It's not exactly about language, it's about the cultural way that language is used.

Nice! I haven't yet got my brain to work in a way that allows gen-AI to do writing for me

5. Post-cancellation: the subscription service equivalent of texting your ex

4. Threaten them with a significant degradation in their lifestyle or happiness if they leave

3. Throw in some freebies! They're bound to stay now!

2. If we ask them if they're sure, they'll change their mind

1. If we hide the cancel subscription button, they won't leave

Once I saw someone replace "feature parity" with "feature parody" and it was so apt that I wasn't sure if it was an accidental mistake or a purposeful one.

Yeah I'm really interesting to see it and will be attending with a few of my team.

As a Barcelona resident I've observed that there's a rule for everything, about 1/4 of those rules are seen as sacrosanct while all the others are treated as optional. I don't know if that applies to the rest of the country or to this case in particular, but it wouldn't surprise me either way.

I have literally no idea who you are or why I follow you, or even if I do.

Having kids is wonderful, doesn't mean it's not hell sometimes, and most of the time when they're small tbh. There's a very worthwhile discussion to be had in how our society makes the toughest job in the world even harder.

(Granted I am a little nervous about how I'm going to find 4 hours of Wagner)

Nobody says "oh I thought you liked modern art so I'm really surprised to hear you're going to the Siena renaissance art exhibition" or "I thought you liked Indian food, so I'm amazed you're enjoying those tacos".