Stuck in the Filter - W25

Waiting by Zachary Kai

https://zacharykai.net/notes/waiting

A poetic exploration of patience, presence, and the relationship with time.

5 Things That Work for Me • Austin Kleon

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/5-things-that-work-for-me

Austin Kleon shares five simple practices that help him stay creative and grounded.

Expert Generalists

https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html

Being an Expert Generalist should be treated as a first-class skill, one that can be assessed and taught.

MIT Study: Using ChatGPT Won’t Make You Dumb (Unless You Do It Wrong)

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/mit-study-using-chatgpt-wont-make

A nuanced AI study, you’ve got to love it!

AI coding trackers are here. Proceed with caution

https://leaddev.com/reporting/ai-coding-tool-trackers-proceed-with-caution

Companies are finally starting to track AI usage within their engineering orgs. Should we be worried or remain cautiously optimistic?

9 Ways to Truly Differentiate Your Content in an AI World | WordStream

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/how-to-differentiate-content

Learn how to differentiate your content from marketing experts so everything you create stands out on crowded platforms.

Asking What—When—Where—Why—Who—How… and Then Some… for the Toyota Practical Problem Solving – AllAboutLean.com

https://www.allaboutlean.com/what-when-where-why-who-how/

The Toyota Practical Problem Solving is a very structured approach to solve problems. The underlying PDCA is broken down into multiple steps, where the “Plan” part especially is divided into Clarify the Problem, Break Down the Problem, Set a Target, and a Root-Cause Analysis. In this post I will look at the What—When—Where—Why—Who—How structure, also known as the 5W1H, that can help you when clarifying the problem. This structure was used in journalism starting around 1913, but may originate from Greek antiquity. It is also a useful structure for problem solving.

Being an “Intrapreneur” as a software engineer

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/being-an-intrapreneur-as-a-software

Building skills useful entrepreneurs, while also shipping more, and helping your career inside a tech company. A guest post by Chaitali Narla.

3 brilliant critical thinking tools used by Daniel Dennett

https://bigthink.com/the-learning-curve/3-brilliant-critical-thinking-tools-used-by-daniel-dennett/

The late philosopher suggested adding a couple of “Occam’s heuristics” to your critical thinking toolbox.

blog - kade@localhost:~$

https://kadekillary.work/blog/#2025-06-16-snorting-the-agi-with-claude-code

blog - kade killary

Why Claude Code feels like magic?

https://omarabid.com/claude-magic

It takes these very simple-minded instructions - ‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’ - but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic. — Steve Jobs

Acknowledgments

I didn't invented the idea of grabbing everything I couldn't process and putting it in a document. I just borrowed it (the idea and the name) from the 'Angry Metal Guy' website, which has been doing this for years. You can check their Stuck in the Filter series for more details.