Author: Michael Kubler

Photographer, cinematographer, web master/coder.

Vercel’s Stealth Move: How they Silently broke the Hobby plan Deploys

In the fast-paced world of web development, unexpected changes to our tools can bring projects to a grinding halt. This is exactly what happened when Vercel, a popular hosting platform for static and serverless deployment, quietly altered their system in a way that broke our established deployment process. As a small business relying on Vercel’s hobby plan, we found ourselves facing three days of failed builds with no warning or explanation. This article delves into our frustrating experience, the lack of communication from Vercel, and the broader implications of such unannounced changes for developers and businesses. It serves as a cautionary tale about the hidden costs of ‘free’ services and the importance of transparent communication in the tech industry.

Book Summary Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense

I recently listened to the audiobook of: Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense by Rory Sutherland I love it. The book seems to do a great job at providing the EQ (emotional) side of things compared to the IQ often talked about in most of the books I read on Entrepreneurship… Continue reading Book Summary Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense

Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change – Book Summary

I just finished listening to the Audiobook of Start at the End Book: Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change by Matt Wallaert Links: Website, Audible (Audiobook), Goodreads (reviews), Amazon (buy the book) I love the behaviour change framework. It seems more practical and useful than the BJ Fogg model for… Continue reading Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change – Book Summary

Ankle Heating or Cooling Brace – Random idea

This is the closest to my vision and most what I had in mind. A leg brace that could be placed nearly anywhere on someones leg or even arm and heat/cool as needed

You can read the PDF version of this: Idea I’d love a shoe or leg brace which I can plug into a wall socket and it could use some smarts to heat up or cool down my Achilles tendons and ideally even massage it.The aim is to be decreasing injury healing time.Maybe it could also… Continue reading Ankle Heating or Cooling Brace – Random idea

Lenny’s Podcast Summaries Q2 2024

I’ve downloaded a bunch of Lenny’s Podcast episodes, extracted the Subtitles from them and then asked Claude (the AI) to summarise them. These aren’t all of them, just ones that really stood out to me. Note: If anyone has any issues with this, please let me know. I love the stuff coming from Lenny’s Podcast,… Continue reading Lenny’s Podcast Summaries Q2 2024

Meditations on Moloch – Summary

Something I’m enjoying doing is using Claude (Anthropic’s equivalent to ChatGPT) to summarise podcasts, books and in this case an article I keep hearing about but never completed reading. Scott Alexander posted the Meditations on Moloch article in 2014 and the Game B community, especially people like Daniel Schmachtenberger has been talking about multi-polar traps… Continue reading Meditations on Moloch – Summary

What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban – Summary

What’s our problem? I highly recommend the Book / Audiobook of What’s Our Problem by Wait But Why’s author Tim Urban. Michael Kubler: I really liked this book and felt like the topics discussed in it are important for society to understand. Unfortunately it’s hard for me to take detailed notes when listening to the… Continue reading What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban – Summary

Podcast Episodes you should listen to – Jan 2024

I’ve been listening to a few different podcasts and here’s some of the episodes that I really enjoyed. I’ve downloaded the subtitles of these from YouTube and then asked Claude.ai (Anthropic’s equivalent to ChatGPT) to summarise them. Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked) https://www.lennyspodcast.com/strategies-for-becoming-less-distracted-and-improving-focus-nir-eyal-author-of-indistractable-and/ Here… Continue reading Podcast Episodes you should listen to – Jan 2024

Transitioning to a Moneyless Society: Key Insights from Daniel Schmactenberger

I’ve been a fan of Daniel Schmachtenberger for a long time, and recently came across this video he did which really hits home the issues with our monetary based society and how we can do some work on transitioning to what would be a Post-Scarcity Society (or what I call an Abundance Based Society, ACeS).… Continue reading Transitioning to a Moneyless Society: Key Insights from Daniel Schmactenberger