What is work? I define work as just doing my best in something. Based on this definition, it means work is everything, and every moment, and if I'm doing something I choose to find meaning in it. It's not an exaggeration to say that to live is to work. To live and struggle is, overall, joyful. That includes meeting up with people, eating, sleeping, activities that directly make money, writing, and exercise. I want to treat everything I do with importance, and connected with life. Instead of aiming for "work-life balance", aiming for "life balance" makes sense to me since it's more general. I think it applies to any life stage, even when retired. But my view on retirement is not really about leisure anymore. As I get older, I probably do need to rest more and self-care looks different. However, there's no such thing as retiring from doing meaningful, challenging things, learning, improving myself, and making efforts to positively contribute to society. And there's also no retiring from faith, which I believe is the starting point for everything I do. I still have priorities and a lot of things I want to do. I've found it kind of helpful recently to decide on what concrete outcomes I want by the end of the month, and work backwards to figure out what I need to verify that I've done every week. People also have free will, and their own ideas of work. There are many that work a lot more than 40h a week because they want to be experts, they find it impactful, or have other responsibilities or situations that require them to make more money or spend more time. People can decide to be really excited about work for a company/org and spend most of their time on it, and really enjoy that. Or they might do some kind of consulting and really enjoy spending most of their time on that too. They might also run their own small, local business and it's something they've chosen to operate with most of their time. From an organization-building perspective, work at least feels better when people enjoy the work and have enough ownership and collaboration. If you have to choose between a boring, monotonous workplace and a fun one with clear opportunities to advance your career, I think most people would choose the latter. For some, especially in the startup or nonprofit or political spaces, WLB may not be a thing as a nature of the job. I still just don't want to make an organization that asks people to spend 50+ hours with it every week, or most weeks. Even if people feel excited to work more in a company, I wonder how much people may silently and intentionally neglect or sacrifice. Relationships, health, volunteering, any kind of passion. I think that exploring my own interests and curiosities in my 20s matters, so I can make a company that also encourages or enables people to pursue their interests too. I'll have a much better idea about what kind of problem I want to solve too. People self-select into companies whose values resonate with their own values. I can't really say what a more humane company looks like beyond general abstractions, like "treat people well," which honestly can be hard to tell. Something to figure out by not just writing and thinking about it, but trying to build companies and hire people myself later on. What do you think about work? Feel free to comment or DM me.

using security-scanned skills seem better than trusting random repos with no verification. nice to see @mattpocockuk's skills at the top skills.sh/ socket.dev/blog/socket-bring… thanks to @insecureagents for bringing up different parts of the security ecosystem

Day 1 of overhauling my dev setup. Turns out my home directory was a push away from being uploaded to github. I was too careless with agents lol. Fixed it. Besides that, here's some things I'll work on: - MCP sprawl. Some http, a lot of stdio instances lying around - Little to no regulation of AI permissions, and yes I use `bypassPermissions` to "get real work" done for Claude. I've known this for a while though, now I'm just deciding to streamline it for real. Working on using nono.sh more consistently - Very inconsistent secret / API key management for agents - No FileVault encryption (unlikely for my mac to get stolen, but still) - Skills and harness settings are not saved. My setup is 70% replicable with github repos and a password manager, the 30% would take around a month of painful trial and error to rebuild from scratch. (if I had to reset my mac, etc)

Your obsidian knowledge wiki is the most important "codebase". I think it also needs guardrails, skills, and ways to check how it's drifting so it can stay organized and AI doesn't make up new ways to route and organize info.

vaguely reminds me of a meme

Back on track

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If we want AI that is genuinely accurate and helpful to workers in factories, frontier labs need real high quality / verified data from them. It starts with a company fully owning / collaborating with existing manufacturing giants