I advise people that people skills are important in the AI era. Now, I’m using AI to help me with people skills. This morning, I wrote a script to export my WhatsApp conversations this year. That makes it easy to feed it into AI models. Then I used my Local MCP connector and asked Claude: Who are people in my life that most deserve an unreasonable gesture of thanks and what would that be? ...
This week, I learned: I had GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 analyze a few of my conversations and learnt that I need to ask myself: “What must they take away? What must you take away?” in my conversations. That lets me speak with intention rather than instict. (Instinct has its place. I happen to over-use it.) Turns out there are several well-established taxonomies. It makes sense to align with these. Linked data is powerful and AI makes linkage easy. General Knowledge: Wikidata, DBpedia, YAGO. People: VIAF, ISNI, ORCID, LC Name Authority, GND. Places: GeoNames, Getty TGN, ISO 3166. Organizations: LEI, ROR, Wikidata. Books/Media: Open Library, WorldCat, MusicBrainz, IMDB. Chemicals/Biology: PubChem, ChEBI, GBIF, ITIS. Legal/Units/Math/Events: EuroVoc, QUDT, OEIS, PeriodO, etc. BitWarden supports a bw CLI that seems handy for quick CLI access to passwords. It’s a step towards me moving away from saving passwords unencrypted on my local file system. Singapore has banned prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Pity. I was hoping to use AI coding agents to play them. Yahoo flipbook.page is a fascinating generative UI exploration. It’s a visual browser, i.e. it generates an image based on text, you click anywhere, it generates an image interpreting based on where you clicked, and so on. A very different style of exploration! Vercel’s deepsec uses Codex / Claude to search for vulnerabilities, but “scans can cost thousands or even tens-of-thousands of dollars for large codebases”. When I charge my Lenovo Thinkpad (P1 Gen 7) with the 170W charger that came with the laptop, it delivers ~60W of power to the battery, charging the laptop in about an hour. A 65W laptop delivers half the power and takes twice as long.