The LLM age has taught me things about my relationship with “productivity”. Before 2008 I didn’t pay much attention to it; I solved all my productivity problems by simply throwing more time at them, a technique which worked up to the point when my health catastrophically collapsed. After that, I simply couldn’t put those hours in anymore, and it felt terrible at first, like I’d never get anything done again. I wrote about how I finally addressed this in 2010: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2010/09/04/work-2-0/ 1/N

Video game bosses are such whiny narcissists. “Oooh you have to learn my really specific special bullshit or you can’t see any more of the game! It’s all about meeeee”. Sheesh, get over yourselves

My inbox had a noticeable break from having to handle spam over the 4th July. On a normal day spam only starts cropping up at about 2-3pm my time. Clearly Americans are the main target - another giveaway is fake versions of brands we don't even have here. No, I don't have any Walmart points expiring, I've never set foot in one🙄

All these games came out in one year, 1992: Wolfenstein 3D, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Ultima Underworld, Dune 2, Alone in the Dark

So much new ground broken in a single year! We were spoiled