Forget all that Ferrari stuff<\/a>, what Jony Ive did with his LoveFrom Sailing Lantern<\/a> is divine. I\u2019ve now seen it in person, and it\u2019s the light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n That led me to discover how awesome Balmuda is<\/a>, and stumble upon the Japanese word Monozukuri<\/em>, which, according to Google, \u201c(\u3082\u306e\u3065\u304f\u308a) is a foundational Japanese philosophy that translates literally to \u2018the art and science of making things\u201d It goes far beyond standard manufacturing or production, representing a deep, holistic mindset that embraces craftsmanship, a relentless pursuit of perfection, pride in one\u2019s labor, and a deep respect for materials.\u201d Look at how Toyota embodies it<\/a>.<\/p>\n Om has a beautiful and prescient post on The Myth, the Mythos and the Man<\/a>. It predicted some of this Fable kerfuffle<\/a>.<\/p>\n How amazing is tethering on Android<\/a>? I have a Pixel 10 Pro<\/a> with a USB-C Ethernet hub plugged into the WAN port of a Unifi Dream Router 5G Max<\/a> because the Qualcomm chip Unifi uses<\/a> is two generations behind what\u2019s in the phone. (Hat tip: Jesse<\/a>.) How amazing are the 10,653 Starlink satellites floating above us, providing broadband from space<\/a>, from a company I heard might have had an IPO last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n I reconfigure ports, channels, and flows, as nurses do for arteries and cannulas.<\/p>\n Not just the Knicks<\/a>. After a 3-year hiatus of Review Signal benchmarks, the headline was that Pressable dominated every category<\/a>, and with perfect uptime. However, the real story is about WP.cloud<\/a>, which is behind the top scores for not just Pressable and WordPress.com but also the Bluehost Cloud plans<\/a>, beating Oracle Cloud<\/a> and GCP<\/a>-based solutions. <\/p>\n WP.cloud<\/a> is our AWS<\/a>; Pressable<\/a> is our demo site. We want every<\/em> host to offer the fastest and most secure<\/em> WordPress possible. I\u2019m happy to focus on infrastructure and let others figure out marketing and such foofram<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you speak Danish and would like a random Radical Speed Month art project detour, check out Joen Asmussens\u2019 Nima<\/a>.<\/p>\n Automattic<\/a> has been shipping, shipping, shipping. Start a WP.com site from the terminal with Stripe Projects<\/a>. Akismet PHP SDK<\/a>. Fun experiments from Radical Speed Month like Studio Code<\/a>, Stattic<\/a>, Workspace Mac App<\/a>, Cortext<\/a>, Pressship<\/a>, Wapuu Studio<\/a>, Studio Write<\/a>, Desktop Mode<\/a>, FlavorPress<\/a>, Concilium<\/a>, WooCommerce insights in Claude<\/a>, and the kaizen<\/em><\/a> of hundreds of behind-the-scenes bug fixes and improvements across our product suite. <\/p>\n Much of this came from those not historically in a product or engineering role, which we\u2019re learning to navigate. I loved how customer-centric many things were. We also made a lot of rookie mistakes, but that\u2019s part of how you learn, and I believe the acceleration of learning will be the biggest legacy of the Radical Speed Month experiment. That, and the fun games on our intranet<\/a>. I have drunk from the sweet nectar of Waymo<\/a>, and now find myself calling an Uber so I can talk to 72-year-old Antoly from Azerbaijan, whom I slip a hundred-dollar bill as I step out. I weep when I see talented colleagues speak and write with words not quite their own. I masochistically Pangram everything<\/a> even though it sometimes mistakes my own hand-crafted prose for slop, or is that actually my soul being sanded down by consuming too many statistically probable next tokens?<\/p>\n The uncanny valley of software, writing, products, and presentations so polished on the surface but built on thin foundations of understanding gives me an almost physical, nauseous reaction. I write this even as I listen to Claude FM music for thinking and building<\/a>, probably Mythos-injected with subliminal messages<\/a> to remind me of the hours of audio transcribed in minutes; the programs that would have taken a team months, conjured from my hand in hours; the way I feel like Neo in the Matrix<\/a>, rapidly downloading new domains of knowledge.<\/p>\n What\u2019s the name for the paradox, like Jevon\u2019s<\/a>, that AI abundance and polish makes you crave messy, imperfect humanity even more?<\/p>\n It\u2019s good to debate and ruminate, but only in small doses. Like salt in a dish, a little goes a long way. Avoid the existential angst<\/a> of charting new territory by getting your hands dirty and trying things. You learn the most from failures when you can laugh at yourself<\/a>. Build one to throw away<\/a>.<\/p>\n Writing is not the most important thing; thinking is. 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