Month: November 2024

We are heading towards the peak of AI startups and development (though far from close to the peak). We are many months removed from Earnings Call proclamations executives made to stake their claim in the AI game, and to let shareholders know that they (at the very least) know about Generative AI and those executives making the ask ‘please help improve our stock price because we not proved to you we know about AI.’

Perhaps I missed it, but I’ve yet to see Earnings Call proclamations touting the mass efficiencies gained, or how profits have been generated directly, from these AI initiatives (excluding, of course, the biggest tech companies who are selling these services/tools to other big companies at profit).

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I have long ignored this line of Filson shirts, not understanding why it might be good or why it might be popular. After deciding I wanted to look a little more put together for hiking, or when wearing clothes for working in the yard, I started thinking more about this shirt. Then I read David Coggins raving about how he loves this shirt, and I decided I needed one.

I picked up one second hand, then another, and then Filson put them on sale, so I got another. It turns out, there’s a reason people love these, and that reason is that this shirt is very comfortable and very durable.

I own both the long and short sleeve variants of Filson’s Washed Feather Cloth shirt, the only difference is the sleeve length. (This review is for the washed variants, the previous variant was not labeled as ‘washed’, but the material was the same.)

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