I love the feeling of one minute after arriving in NYC, looking around and thinking, “Yeah, this is the city where things happen.” Almost wish I was in my 20s again so I could experience it with the anything is possible perspective of a full life ahead. Although at 50, I’m still quite the optimist.

Ben Thompson’s daily update today about “thin vs. thick” AI continues to sound right to me:

… you can envision a world where compute is no longer scarce, and very cheap models in the cloud are also good enough; it’s hard even then to see local inference penciling out economically. That’s why the true case for this setup may ultimately depend not on free as in beer but free as in speech…

Cloud AI is going to be best for most people. Local AI is great not because of cost but for control.

Yet more views from the train, earlier today going across a bay on the Hudson River. 🚂

Stopped for a while in Albany. 🚂

Mohawk River in Schenectady. 🚂

A few more details in this Fortune story about the short-lived coup against Matt Mullenweg, but still no real explanation for why it happened:

A remarkable level of secrecy surrounded the drama. None of the board members have publicly explained why they suddenly wanted him out of the company. Mullenweg has declined to describe why he was all but fired, or how he quickly got back control of the company.

You come at the mad king, you best not miss.

Matthias Pfefferle blogs about a clever way to render OPML in browsers using JavaScript, via @jlelse. I’m going to look into doing this for Micro.blog’s OPML too.

Working on more layout fixes for the iPhone Duo. I’m not sure Apple made the right trade-offs with the design of this thing. Vertical nav controls still feel weird. And with the device backordered for months, hard to justify the time to rethink everything.

Last morning on the train, along Lake Erie. 🚂

Chicago Union Station. 🚂