Paul Jacobson

Life and its many opportunities

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Paul
Paul
@Paul@pauljacobson.me

Enthusiast, writer, Happiness Engineer at Automattic. I take photos too. Passionate about my wife, Gina and #proudDad.

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  • Learning from others with RSS

    I placed more emphasis on RSS feeds when Twitter started its Musk-infused decent into madness, as an healthier way to keep up to date with the news sources and people I follow. Rather than heading to Twitter to scroll through my curated Twitter lists, I started spending even more time in my RSS feeds in…

  • A real Democracy has checks and balances

    Democracy has been on my mind a lot lately with the current Israeli government’s moves to “reform” our Judiciary, and essentially cripple it in the process. The consequences of this for our democracy will be devastating.

  • I’m feeling anti-social today so I had a chat with ChatGPT about this

    Today feels like one of those days when I don’t really feel like much social interaction. I thought I’d see what ChatGPT had to say. It actually helped chatting to the bot, even though I know it is a generative AI.

  • 17 years

    Today my wife and I celebrate 17 years of marriage. Our marriage is almost an adult! Is that when we should feel like adults? 🤔

  • Asking ChatGPT about tumble dryers and pocket dimension doorways

    I spent some time with ChatGPT trying variations of this prompt: “A 500 word explanation about how tumble dryers create interdimensional rifts that suck socks into a pocket dimension at arbitrary time intervals”. It’s responses were interesting, and encouraging.

  • Miniature forests

    These weeds are growing through the paving after the rains. I thought it would be fun to take a couple photos from their level.

  • Yariv Levin makes the case against Judicial Reform in Israel

    This headline in Times of Israel today basically reinforces those concerns, and makes a good case against this Judicial Reform legislation. If Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s attitude is anything to go by, concerns about Tyranny of the Majority will be well-founded.

  • How platforms die

    Cory Doctorow published a terrific, insightful essay about how platforms die. He calls the process “enshittification”.