Brad Barrish

I will preface this by saying that I know what the phrase “fuck around and find out” means. I was experimenting with Claude and hilarity ensued. I literally laughed out loud.

Learning that Perplexity is integrating Yelp data is disappointing. Yelp is garbage. It ruins the otherwise great experience of Apple Maps. I end up using Apple Maps for driving directions, but if I need to look up ratings, recommendations, etc. Google is still a lot better and more readible.

Overcast constantly frustrates me. I’m not sure if it’s because I subscribe to so many podcasts or perhaps because I have the app set to stream episodes. The app constantly freezes, indicates it’s playing something when it isn’t and fetches new episodes while I’m scrolling the All Episodes playlist.

I’ve spent hours over the last month trying to migrate my WordPress site to Ghost (self-hosted). I finally had a breakthrough over the weekend, but then I realized the amount of clean-up needed on 20 years of posts and decided to stick with WP. I did learn a lot though, so all was not lost.

Personality testing is a booming business; inevitably, there’s a business to build on top of the results. Classifying things, or in this case, people is a step in a series that ultimately leads to the creation of personalized products, services, supplements, etc., based on determined personality.

I’ll cop to taking several of them over the years. I find that Enneagram feels the most accurate, though not without some things that simply are not accurate.