It shatters into glass dust
Five fragments for the week of March 2, 2026
Hello from the start of March. I’m back from the snow.
Here are five fragments that stuck with me last week…
I used to carry a whole “memory palace” in my head while coding. One interruption and it shatters into glass dust.
Now I can write 3 messy paragraphs and the machine rebuilds the palace pristine, clearer than I could picture. I read it and think: I am seen.
– Garry Tan on X, February 27, 2026. With AI as my witness.
The early building is more about training your brain to think in a completely new way. Eventually you will reach a point where your team will tell you they don’t trust the marketing attribution methodology and you will think, “I can build something that will solve this.” But you must cross the desert of bad apps first.
– Hilary Gridley, “don’t start by sidelining your own people,” writerbuilder, February 25, 2026. True in my experience! Related, from Ethan Mollick: “I believe the cost of getting to know AI—really getting to know AI—is at least three sleepless nights.”
you want your pre-AI voice. before it started unconsciously blending with claude's defaults
– Ole Lehmann on X, March 2, 2026. Partway through a slop-or-not post: poetry. You want your pre-AI voice.
In later MacBooks, the light didn’t even have an opening. The aluminum was thinned and perforated so it felt like the sleep light was shining through the metal
– Marcin Wichary, “Just a little detail that wouldn’t sell anything,” February 21, 2026. Marcin is on a tear recently, sometimes even posting multiple times per day! Stumbled across this one on my timeline before I even made my weekly rounds to catch up.
Something else I noticed. Video games create stronger feelings of nostalgia than anything else, because they are the only places you can visit that are still exactly the same as they were at the time.
– Ryan Moulton on X, March 1, 2026. A timeless sense of place.
Until next time,
Diana
https://dianaberlin.com