Show Notes
Coming to you LIVE from a third straight week of Japanese business hotels comes me, Justin, in his enduring quest to figure out how to exchange currency for real estate in the land of the rising fun.
[Programming note: apologies, as the audio quality at the beginning of the podcast suffered because I fucked up and left the hotel room's air conditioner on (I caught it and fixed it from the pun section onward)]
Had a few great e-mails to read through this week, but now I'm fresh out again! Before you listen, why not write in a review of this episode? [email protected] and tell me about how amazing it will be before it lets you down like your best friend and/or workplace mentor and/or parent figure.
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Craigmod's Kissa by Kissa book
@koic works on RuboCop and inspired this issue of my Searls of Wisdom newsletter
In Japan, you're not a BDFL, you're a 優しい終身の独裁者
Speaking of newsletters, this month's took me way too damn long
All the prefectures I've been to so far (36 as of v37)
The US Embassy in Japan's 10" x 10" bag limit
Aaron's puns, ranked
CRISPR babies! (Archive)
GTA 6's trailer
SteamOS is one step closer to being real
Fortnite is back on iOS
CarPlay Ultra is nice, but will it scale?
visionOS 3 will let us scroll with our eyeballs
Apple is considering an AI-based search tool for iOS
Rumor: iOS 19 will let developers invoke its on-board local models
Sam + Jony, sitting in a tree / pile of cash
ChatGPT Diminishes Idea Diversity in Brainstorming, Study Finds
Microsoft Engineers forced to dig their own AI graves
muscle-mem solves a huge issue with "agentic" programs
Naturalizing relevance realization: why agency and cognition are fundamentally not computational
Chicago Sun-Times Prints Summer Reading List Full of Fake Books
mid college towns are screwed (News+)
The Quiet Collapse of Surveys: Fewer Humans (and More AI Agents) Are Answering Survey Questions
The Nomad Universal Cable
Junglia Okinawa opens in July and this ad is absolutely bonkers
Saw the Yakult Swallows with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa from Rebuild.fm
Loved World Order's new single until the guy got milkshake duck'd 5 minutes later
This Workforce AI promo video is peak smug AI hustler shit
The Bechdel Test (not to be confused with the Becky Test)
More from Breaking Change
Unlike Sam Altman, I sat down and did the math by hand to calculate that it would actually be less time to produce the show if I were to livestream it than to edit it after the fact and upload it. The fact I recently got upgraded from 30mbps to 2000mbps upstream might allso have something to do with it: welcome to the first ever LIVE episode of Breaking Change!
Zach Holman, founder of Signed, joins me for another 🔥Hotfix🔥. Zach wants more of everything. Let's see what we can do about that.
The summer heat has finally broken here in Shizuoka, and I'm enjoying a cool, wet, and cloudy day huddled around my microphone for warmth. I hope you'll join around my verbal campfire for yet another one of these.
We cut our trip a day short, so I found myself with a totally free day with no plans. Naturally, I wasted it by recording a 3-hour podcast. Dang.
The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works. Please enjoy.