Had this idea for my next get‑together — a simple prompt that could spark some fun stories.
Tell the story of something you have on you right now.
It sounded random at first, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked it.
Everyone’s carrying a story — in their pocket, on their wrist, in their wallet.
No prep needed. Just real moments hiding in plain sight.
Codie Sanchez quoting Prof. Arthur Brooks on different types of friendship in a conversation with Shane Parrish.
Worthless friends are the friends that have no transactional value. You don’t want anything from them. They don’t want anything from you. They want to hang out with you. They want to go on a walk with you. They don’t want your email list. They don’t want access to your money. They just want to have a beer on a Friday night. And these friendships end up materially increasing, our happiness, these worthless friends, whereas these transactional friendships actually end up, in many ways, decreasing our happiness
Really liked this simple explanation on the difference between BDR and BCP shared in a hacker news discussion
Leadership isn’t about being the hero. It’s about empowering your team to become heroes themselves.
Google Gemini
For folks that are driven, wired to see an issue and tackle it head-on, it is difficult to not jump in and “try” to help your team whenever they run into an issue. But the reality is that most folks are capable, creative individuals. They just need the space to flex their own problem-solving muscles.
If you team has the skills and experience, let them handle it :-).
A quote from Japanese philosophy repeated by Coach Paul Assaiante on practice
You cry in practice and you laugh in competition
Use “dG” command, if you want to delete all lines in a file starting from the line under the cursor in vi.
Additional commands to delete lines
One can leverage the explosion of generative AI art engines to create your own clip art.
Here’s a clipart that I created using the prompt “moscow mule drink illustration, clipart”
A self note. List of private address ranges
A self note for querying json data in SQLite. BTW, I think SQLite is an under utilized and under appreciated swiss army tool for data storage and manipulation. And thanks to Richard Hipp, it is free.
If you have a column defined as a json type in your SQLite database, quickest way to search for the data is json_extract. A full set of functions available are documented at https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html
If you have a column named family_details in a table family with the following json in it as an example
{
"father": {
"name": "dad",
"birthday": "1/1/2000",
"pet_name": "daddy"
},
"mother": {
"name": "mom",
"birthday": "1/1/2001",
"pet_name": "mommy"
},
"sons": [
{
"name": "son_one",
"birthday": "1/2/2020",
"pet_name": "sonny_one"
},
{
"name": "son_two",
"birthday": "1/2/2021",
"pet_name": "sonny_two"
}
],
"daughters": [
{
"name": "princess_one",
"birthday": "1/2/2020",
"pet_name": "princy_one"
},
{
"name": "princess_two",
"birthday": "1/2/2021",
"pet_name": "princy_two"
}
]
}and you want to print the name of the father, you can use
select json_extract(family_details, '$.father.name') as father_name
from family
json_extract uses the name of the column and the json node as parameters. In this case, we used $(which denotes the root), father and name (under father) as the json node.
Quick self-note 🙂
different ways to search for content in a string in python
if 'content' in string:if string.find('content'):import reif re.search('content', string)Good discussion here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4901523/whats-a-faster-operation-re-match-search-or-str-find