🦉 Michael Schofield

Aw. Dan Simmons wrote one of the greatest novels, and I’ve enjoyed a ton of his work. What a bummer.

The paradigm shift comes with questioning why there must be a hand-off from product to engineering in the first place.

stoic.substack.com/p/vigil-2-pr... by me

#ai #engineering #product #design #ux

The world where this kind of emergent agent behavior is the norm. As the web makes itself more readily consumable by agents (Cloudflare creating a new “for agents” request header, for interest), means agents will stitch services together in ways that no one expected.

Why did the first person to eat a death cap mushroom do that? You'd think they would figure it out from the name

These are really, really amazing 🤩

Very cool.

Whoop whoop! 👐

In my goal-tracking app (which is kind of nano-petty, and I am sending a Finch on adventures) I have a lot of daily goals around long-form attention. “Read articles without skimming,” “read 15 minutes of fiction that’s not on a screen,” etc. big recommend.

Meet Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.

The state of having good alignment with your target ICP is to be "down with the clown."

Stop Billing, Start Pricing | Jonathan Stark Jonathan Stark teaches you how to make more money without working more hours

Jonathan Stark has a value-pricing calculator, and elsewhere has written a bunch about how to think about pricing that I recommend. jonathanstark.com/vpc/

Every Hourly Billing Flaw Explained in Detail (And Why It Can’t Survive AI) The Thomson Reuters 2026 legal market report, broken down for anyone who sells time — lawyers, consultants, accountants, advisors

Hourly billing for engineering work is fundamentally incompatible with AI. If you are hiring contractors you need to revisit those contracts and renegotiate them as value-priced contracts; if you are a freelancer, you need to practice articulating a value you bring to the table other than time.

Our parlor does Friday the 13th flash event, and Naely and I had a couple hours to ourselves.

Product Engineering and Product Management are consolidating. Product engineers who are not proactively making strategic product decisions will obsolesce, just as product managers who are not proactively engineering will obsolesce.

two little stories from a man I barely knew (these are love stories)

This is the realest writing ever writ. "I used to have this dog, Shep. I thought Shep was a good classic name. I like one-syllable names for dogs. I lost him in 1995 and I couldn’t ever bring myself to get another one. I spend a lot of time alone."

stephaniesweeney.substack.com/p/two-little...

Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the Economy Super Bowl ads, Jesus derivatives, and Gen Alpha's return to the theater

A poetic sentence about not being present. "Everyone is very, singularly, focused on the end game. Everyone is also extraordinarily, profoundly, nostalgic."

kyla.substack.com/p/buying-fut...

mfw new relic ingests all of the data ever and hits me in the face with the invoice

My sleep deprived brain said "okay. yes. I want chess horror."

Lady in Waiting • A Flash Folk-Horror // Day Eight | Hoot Cowl Roost Get more from Hoot Cowl Roost on Patreon

A new tense few minutes in the flash low-fantasy horror "Lady In Waiting," wherein a lady-in-waiting flees the kingdom long-walk style and struggles with exposure. This is the 7th episode, but they're "flash" - meaning ultra short. Human actors, no AI.

open.spotify.com/show/7KJrADP...

Do not look away.

Anticrastination: A Comedy Audio Drama A pair of people try to make a podcast about reaching goals and getting organized--and completely fail. A desperate comedy!

My ears would like to ensure Anticrastination get made, aaand I think you would too 👀. bit.ly/anticrastina...

#AmListening to Partial Veil, Liminal 📻 Here’s Where I Pressed Play

#AmListening to Partial Veil, Liminal amlistening.substack.com/p/amlistenin...

The new 28 Years Later did the remarkable thing of being excellent. At this rate this may go down as one of the best trilogies. Can’t wait for number three.

I find it requires an uncanny amount of energy to just coexist with and compartmentalize the worldsuck. That just doing laundry is a willful act of hope.

Cory Doctorow sez:

04 • Buddy System It started when Paul Nguyen got sick.

It started when Paul Nguyen got sick. Now the whole camp is on edge. Episode 04 of The Young (our coming‑of‑age horror actual‑play) is here - and you honestly don't have to catch-up through the other episodes. Summer‑camp 90s nostalgia.

🎧 www.theyounghorror.com/p/04-buddy-s...
#horror #actualplay

04 • Buddy System It started when Paul Nguyen got sick.

Someone’s sick at Camp Whippoorwill in my latest episode of THE YOUNG. Back in Michigan 1995, four junior counselors come of age just in time for the zombie apocalypse.

www.theyounghorror.com/p/04-buddy-s...

#AudioDrama #Horror

It won't hit podcatchers until the morning, but if you're up and at 'em you can stream the next THE YOUNG www.patreon.com/posts/young-... . Don't fear the patreon, it's totally free.

The Young is a coming-of-age horror set in Michigan 1995.

#actualplay #audiodrama #zombies

My inner voice is a witchy philosopher Squarrior (a warrior squirrel) 🐿️ keeping itself centered with Mongolian throat singing - but still fundamentally whimsical squirrel easily distracted and hungry.

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Partial Veil was recommended to me a ton and I finally listened to the first episode. I'm pretty optimistic and subscribed. Might be way off but I'm getting True Detective vibes. #AmListening #audiodrama

pod.link/1765764792/e...