Fair point on the structure, I've been using tools to help polish my English lately since it's not my first language. But the point about the 'administrative tax' in Jira/Slack is coming from my own daily frustration, not a prompt. I'd rather have an agent that actually syncs my PRs than another code assistant
Why would I use a low fidelity version when I can just recall a high fidelity version directly in my mind? You too can achieve this by training dream recall, by keeping a dream journal for example. After a while you will notice you can remember nearly everything about dreams and will start lucid dreaming as well.
I was in college before I realized this wasn’t a universal thing. 15 years later I was finally exposed to the bit where some people don’t have an inner monologue or a minds eye.
I was about 45 before I realised that when people said “in my mind’s eye” it was substantially more than a metaphor.
And it wasn’t until about a year later that I realised that I also didn’t have what ordinary people refer to as an inner monologue.
Realising that I had both aphantasia and anendophasia was quite a shock, but has never felt to me like I was missing anything.
For images I literally have nothing “pictorial” or “graphical” at all, but concepts and relationships are “vivid”. And for the inner monologue, there’s no autonomic voice at all, but if I concentrate in the same way that someone might “consciously breathe” I can kinda sorta trigger something.
Interestingly, in periods where I have meditated for >20min per day for consecutive weeks, I can trigger what I refer to as “flyover mode” which is like a literal landscape flyover that feels like a 4K screensaver. But this is _rare_ and requires a huge amount of effort.
I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse, but I generally have extremely vivid dreams. I also have a very active inner-monologue and can do the whole “picture a red apple on a green lawn with 3 yellow dots on it, pick it up and rotate it and track the dots” kind of thing. As it happens I’m a visual learner and a voracious reader.
I’ve never thought about if any of this was connected before. I should do some research.
I have dreams, but they're almost always non-visual, at least in the traditional sense, or when compared to other people I know who recount their dreams to me, and I very rarely "remember" (if that's the right word) them in any detail. I sometimes (rarely) will have visual dreams, but that almost always happens after I've had a good night's sleep, woken up, and then fallen back to sleep again. I think it might have something to do with how deeply I sleep when I am asleep. A train could drive past my bed and I wouldn't wake up.
I kept a dream journal for years and very rarely had lucid dreams. 6-8 times at most over 30 years. I definitely got better at remembering dreams -- it also helped if I could build a narrative that would keep the different segments tied together.
For some people it's more natural, with DILD (dream induced lucid dreams) but others need to practice the skill explicitly, such as with WILD (wake induced lucid dreams) methods.
I find that my dreams start fading the more awake I am, unless they were more intense than usual. How do you keep that mental twilight long enough to write the details?
Wake up and immediately start writing them down. Sometimes I use a voice recorder app to do the same, I believe there are apps out there for dream specific voice or text journaling but I just use my phone, used a physical journal previously. After a few weeks you'll be able to remember them fully.
I don't understand this because who's gonna maintain it in the future? Surely that costs more to pay even one person to add features that Linear had than to pay Linear themselves. I'd do this for personal projects but never for my work company lest I be the one to maintain it indefinitely on top of my current work.
one thing annoying with premade solutions is that it only does 90% of what you want, its livable but still doesn't quite meet your needs.
Its not just adding features that Linear already provides but adding features and integrations that mets 100% your needs.
The full decision making equation is (cost of implementing it yourself + cost of maintenance + 10% additional benefit for a solution that fully meets your needs) versus (cost of preexisting solution that meets 90% of your needs). Cost of implementing it and cost of maintenance has just gone down. Surely that will mean on a whole more people as a whole will choose to make inhouse rather than outsource.
Thus demand for premade solutions will go down, Saas providers won't be able to increase their prices as this will make even more people choose to implement it themselves. The cost of producing software will continue to drop due to agentic coding and maintenance cost will drop as well due to maintenance coding agents. More people will choose their own custom solutions and so on. Its very possible we are in the beginning of the end for Saas companies.
There's a meme about how Dutch doesn't seem like a serious language to English speakers, and what's funnier is Dutch speakers trying to figure out why it's so funny to English speakers.
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