It's probably very good for the world that Stewart Butterfield is leaving Salesforce. After he gets time to rest and recharge, something brilliant and open is probably going to come from his mind. A very capable and creative person, Slack is an amazing product and he evolved it well.#
The most interesting episode so far in the 500 songs series is the one about Hey Joe as performed by Jimi Hendrix. I'm not listening to them in any particular order. I felt kind of bad about it, but I got over it. One idea he talks about was there was an idea of white drugs and black drugs. I can vouch for that. I was blown away a few years ago to find out everyone smokes weed. I thought it was just a white boomer thing. Everyone does it. The sound of eyes opening. I asked Alexa to play me some Hendrix music. First she played Hey Joe which I'd been bingeing on. Then came his opening at Woodstock. And then All Along the Watchtower. It was really emotional for me. It's already been a heavy duty emotional day. Let's go deeper! After that he asks Are You Experienced? Hey for such a young man, he died at 27, he was very self-aware and surroundings-aware. #I asked Openai to "invent a fictitious twitter timeline with tweets only from cool people who are not in any way famous?" Believe it or not what it came up with was pretty relaxing! #
I went into a supermarket for the first time since getting my eyes fixed a week ago. All of a sudden I can read everything. No more mysteries or relying on memory. Another interesting weirdness, as I've been working on software this week I can now see that I have been mis-spelling the names of things all over the place. I have a practice of copying and pasting names when I want to refer to a value or call a function, so as the mis-spellings propagate, my code still runs without errors. I really have been transformed into an able-eyed person in just one little operation. My dreams, also amazingly, have become more vivid and memorable and also gratifying (no more information forthcoming in re this). I think perhaps when one's vision improves it improves in many dimensions. Did I mention that the screens in my life reveal details heretofore unappreciated! The retina display I'm typing this into has many subtleties. Amazing. #