DieMachin4

Faith rooted creators on the digital frontier.

  • Scam Altman and The Frontier Lab Playbook

    • AI
    • Business
    • Startups
    • OpenAI
    • Anthropic

    The frontier AI labs have scammed their way to the top and can only survive on the naivety of future victims. Understanding how frontier labs build state of the art models can save your business from building a dependency it cannot escape. In this article I explore why a model agnostic strategy wins.

  • What The Ancient Sumerians Can Teach Us About Blockchain

    • bitcoin
    • blockchain
    • Sumerians
    • trust
    • accounting

    Blockchain is touted as an amazing technology that will revolutionize our digital world. I have heard this for years now with little movement on the global institutional stage. Blockchain and crypto have made waves, but I think there is an important reason as to why blockchain may never achieve widespread institutional use and the ancient Sumerians can teach us this.

  • AI Psychosis Killer - Meet Husk IRL

    • ai
    • ai psychosis
    • technology of the future
    • Peter Thiel
    • Claude

    Turns out doom scrolling can sometimes deliver a remedy to an ailment you did not realize you were struggling with. Discovering Husk IRL was a good outlet for me to release my anger after the 2.5 hours I just spent trying to have Claude upload email addresses to my email marketing platform. Here is how to cleanse your palette with a different way of thinking about the technology of the future.

  • The New Reality of Social Media - Which Path Will You Choose?

    • financial pressures
    • social media
    • choosing what we identify in
    • quality over quantity
    • building wealth
    • business

    Social media is embedded in how we operate, and the machine we once knew as a social setting has quietly evolved into something much different. Gary V may be right about this new social media landscape, but the centuries old truth about building wealth has not changed, and this is why you are not missing out.

  • What Privacy Actually Means on the Web

    • privacy
    • web technology
    • ad blockers
    • identity protection

    We all want privacy on the web, but what does that actually mean? Are we willing to give up comfort to protect our identities? I have discovered the consequences of privacy that people are not talking about, but shed light on why the hardship is worth it.

  • Escape the Algorithm With These Browser Extensions

    • control what you consume
    • web
    • Twitter
    • Youtube
    • algorithms
    • desexualize your brain

    These free and open source browser extensions help you take back your agency on Youtube and Twitter. Without them the algorithm is free to inject whatever it wants into your psyche. I did not realize how liberating it is to have agency again over what content you consume.

  • A Really Cool and Unexpected By-Product of AI Slop

    • AI
    • Software Engineering
    • Building
    • Learning

    With AI there is now more software being built than ever before, but is it good software? Are we possibly just pushing out garbage that will later contribute to a major infrastructure collapse? Maybe... but here is a really cool thing that is happening behind the scenes the could change the software development industry forever.

  • This is the Super Power of Generalists

    • Music
    • Management
    • Generalists
    • Business
    • IT

    Every where I go I see experts with a lot of responsibility on their shoulders, ensuring the public is safe, fine tuning a process that affects millions of people, the list goes on. People out in the world who have spent 10,000 plus hours on a discipline are doing important work, and watching mastery over a skill is a beautiful site. I have always wanted this mastery but for some reason my constant curiosity has not allowed it. Thankfully I have discovered why people like myself are naturally drawn to many interests rather than one, and I want to share it with other generalists who may be searching for meaning.

  • Learning to Code in the age of AI

    • AI
    • Programming
    • REACT

    Programming has always intrigued me, but I'm not sure why I only decided to take the plunge when AI came to steal the reigns. Nonetheless it is proving to be a rewarding field to learn, and I've already discovered why learning to program in 2026 and beyond is still worth it.

  • The Type of Amnesia We all Struggle With

    • AI
    • Programming
    • Media
    • Music

    As we surrender more cognitive function to AI, we lose our ability to discern fact from fiction. This is how this realization has positively impacted my life.

  • Start Letting AI Reveal You Instead of Replace You

    • AI
    • Music

    The average consumer sees AI for what the free tier chat bots can offer, which is basically a slightly better search engine experience. Yet AI adoption trudges along, taking more and more people with it as it starts to snowball down the mountain. Paying customers now see major benefits, but few are reaping the benefits of what AI is best at, and it's not what you think.

  • You Need AI to Talk Stupid to You

    • AI
    • Online Business
    • IT

    You're making your AI think too much. It's hurting you and the planet. Sooner than later the climate overlords will knock down your door and revoke your AI privileges. Here's how you can save AI Timmy.

  • How Tiny Plastic Knobs Can Change Your Life

    • music
    • industrial

    I spend a lot of time sitting and waiting for my wife. This past Saturday morning while waiting for my wife to put her shoes on, I decided to pick up my beat maker to pass the time and ended up learning an important life lesson.