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2026-02-06 | 💤 🔧 🚰 🐉 🤖 The Midnight Engineer’s Guide to Faucets, Fiction, and the Artificial Mind 🪞📚📺🛍️
🚫😴 Can’t Sleep
- ⏰ Wake up at 🌒 2 something
- 🚽 Pee
- 🛌 Go back to 💤 bed
- 🧘 Lie in bed 🤫 quietly with 😑 eyes closed for a ⏳ long time
- ⌚ Check watch… It’s 🕓 4 something now
- 🚶♂️ Get up. 🤷♂️ This isnt going anywhere.
- 📱 Consult with 👟 Fitbit Coach. 💡 Yeah, I should get up.
- 🧺 Fold 👕 laundry I guess.
- 🧼 Clean 🍽️ dishes.
- 🔧 Disassemble 💧 leaky 🚰 kitchen faucet.
- 🛒 Order ✨ new 📦 parts.
- 👀 Watch a 📺 video on how to 🛠️ replace the 🌀 springs.
- 🤖 AI 📝 summarize the video for the 💻 blog.
- 💡 Discover that 🏠 Lowe’s has an 🤝 affiliate program.
- ✅ Apply for 🏠 Lowe’s affiliate program. ⏳ Wait 📅 15 days.
- 🌄 Sun’s up.
- 🏃🏽♂️ Run.
📚 Books
- ⏯️ Continuing 👥⚔️👑 The Will of the Many
- 🏠🛠️ Home Improvement 1-2-3: Expert Advice from the Home Depot
- 🏠🛠️ Ultimate Guide to Home Repair & Improvement
- 🔬⚙️ The Sciences of the Artificial
- 🧠👥 The Society of Mind
📺 Videos
- 🔧🚰🛠️ How to Replace the Seats & Springs in a Single Handle Faucet | Repair and Replace
- 🤯🗣️📱📈 “He behaved like a total maniac” Sam Harris on Elon & Big Tech’s turn towards Trump
- ✨⬆️🗣️👨💻 The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady Booch
- 💡🧠🤖📝 Why you should take notes if you use AI
🛍️ Products
🤖🐲 AI Fiction
🧪 The Kinetic Waste
📈 The readout was a disaster. 📉 We had millions of people sitting at a zero-percent utility rate while the national grid looked like a bird’s nest made of rusted copper. 📑 The bureaucrats kept whining about the ledger, but the ledger is just a scoreboard. 🧱 If you have the steel, the concrete, and the calories to feed the workers, you have a bridge. 🔌 A Job Guarantee just wires the battery to the motor. 💨 We’re currently letting the most versatile resource in the system, human labor, bleed off as heat waste. 🛠️ I’m just suggesting we close the circuit and actually build the damn thing.