justin․searls․co

I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.

By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.


If Apple announces that visionOS 3 will be able to automatically scroll automatically while you read by following your gaze and doesn’t call the feature EyeRoll, I’m going to sell my Vision Pro.

TIL you can (re)set a sleep timer with Siri. Listening to a podcast while falling asleep and my timer paused playback before I nodded off. Clicked the AirPod stem to resume playback and said:

“Siri set a sleep timer for 15 minutes”

This actually worked! I’ve been getting up and tapping my device like an idiot all these years.

Want to know the only thing worse than worrying a lot? Being really good at worrying.

Most people's worries never come to pass. But when I worry about something, the odds are extraordinarily good it will go exactly as terribly as I feared.

My brother gives me shit because I use my real name on Reddit, but in my mind it's more like I'm playing Reddit with permadeath enabled.

A non-zero number of people assume rotary clubs are full of nerds who are really into assessing the authenticity of signing important documents for some reason.

When I was young and learning how to do my own laundry, I remember always thinking “permanent press” sounded like too much of a commitment.

TIL you can create a new rails app inside the current directory without creating a new one! For example, to build out a rails app around them:

$ rails new .

The app module will be named after the current working directory.

I really hope that for the next Vision hardware release, Apple makes the light shield (functionally) optional. The original is so much more productive and pleasant when you remove the light shield and retain your (human) peripheral vision and airflow over your face’s skin.

Been “vibe coding” (ugh) all afternoon, and 3 hours into my agent building an agentic REPL (I know), it decided to just remove all human-facing output because it figured out how to read underlying logs I don’t have (apparent) access to.

Was like that scene in Her when the AI just decides to peace out and go do its own thing. Welp.

Why I love infrared saunas: weighing myself before and after a 60 minute session, I sweat so much that I dropped 1.3 pounds DESPITE drinking 1.68 liters (3.7 lb) of water.

That means in just one hour a 65°C sauna caused me to perspire 2.27 L (5 lb). Holy shit.

My productivity skyrocketed this week. Sleeping better? New AI tool? Nope!

I signed out of iMessage on my Mac. Night and day difference. My computer is for computing again. HUGE difference.

The reason AI startups like Windsurf, Cursor, et. al, are all fucked is that "you’re a product, not a platform" is the new "you’re a feature, not a product."

If you fail to secure a massive acquisition, you're gonna get steamrolled by the big tech companies as soon as they catch up.