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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m 34 years old and just now realizing that the kids who insisted on calling Leroy Brown “Encyclopedia” were maybe, possibly, not his friends.

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Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What stupid horrible thing did a tech CEO say today? Wait no please don't answer that aaah, what do you mean "which one?"

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

so excited to finally share this news! Universal Pictures and producers Phil Lord & Chris Miller are bringing my book PARADOX INC to the big screen. deadline.com/2026/08/para...

https://deadline.com/2026/08/paradox-inc-movie-daniel-roher-lord-miller-universal-1237045364/

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day to those who celebrate!

the first paragraph's of Ray Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains, referencing today's date (Aug 4, 2026)

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I wrote up my unified theory of time travel stories newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/a-love-let...

newsletter.goodtechthings.com

A love letter to time travel stories

And a special book offer

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I heard it said recently that software engineers are history’s first illiterate professional class. That’s overstated, but I think it’s directionally true enough to explain a LOT about the current state of the industry…and the world.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i have written a poem for father's day

FATHER’S DAY
As I stagger through my garage,
fingers bulging around the straps of four grocery bags in each fist,
I feel the handgrip of a child’s bicycle snag on my right hip pocket
and I know,
with the cursed clairvoyance I’ve developed over 11 years of parenthood
allowing me to anticipate but not change the outcome of unfortunate events,
that the bicycle will flip over and smash me on the shins
leading me to drop 2 glass jars of spaghetti sauce on the concrete floor
and I remind myself,
in that instant before the skin peels off my bones,
that this is what it’s all about.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

“Only the good die young” is obviously untrue - cf the entire Wikipedia page of “Juvenile Serial Killers.” What people mean by that saying is something more akin to “only the good die too soon.”

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Advance reader copies of PARADOX INC are here! They’re so beautiful!! @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

here's to the crazy ones. the misfits. the rebels.

a founder tells his team: "after a spiritual pilgrimage, two mountaintop leadership retreats, an ayahuasca experience, and a devastating personal tragedy that threw everything else into perspective, I've concluded that our company needs to chase the same current trend as every single one of our competitors in the industry"

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My preschooler tells me that the driver in The Wheels on the Bus song now says “I love you” instead of “Move on back”, and while I suppose there’s a chance the old driver was a racist, the new one seems to be just begging for a restraining order.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

“the AI models are currently the worst they will ever be” (2026) Compare this claim to: “Netflix is currently the worst it will ever be” (2014) It is absolutely not a guarantee that currently subsidized services will continually get better relative to you, the end user

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm being told that the city motto of Vancouver is not "Vancouver is for Louvers" ... missed opportunity imo

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"Funny and distressingly realistic...propelled by awesome characters and inventive twists” — Andy Weir Silicon Valley invents the time machine in my upcoming book PARADOX INC, now available for preorder everywhere! Here's a look inside from @people.com: people.com/paradox-inc-...

people.com

Former Google Employee Announces Silicon Valley Satire, ‘Paradox Inc.’ — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

Forrest Brazael, a former Google employee, chronicles the fall and rise of a time-travel startup in his forthcoming book, ‘Paradox Inc.’

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

not sure about all this lab leak discourse, personally I think the evidence is pretty clear that the Claude Code source escaped from a wet market

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Dreamed last night that I was at a tech conference called LEFTOVERS. -all the talks were repeats from other events -the swag bags were assembled from other swag bags -the food was … you get the idea In the dream it seemed kind of awesome

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’ve noticed you can tell how far back someone’s programming experience goes based on whether they pronounce “Replit” as 2 syllables or 3.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A physical book … published by NPR … about collecting CDs. The past (1999) truly is a foreign country

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Contrary to prevailing wisdom, there has never been a better time to share your own writing, in longform, on the internet.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

why is everybody saying that conservatives don't read theyre literally called MAGA-zines

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Interesting point raised by a smart friend today: Traditional DevRel/tech community building are over, because AI kills loyalty to platforms / frameworks / etc. Not just because it lowers switching costs ... but because it destroys the self-identification people used to feel with their tools.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New cool kid Silicon Valley-ism I just heard is “what’s his spike?” As in: “what’s his outlier trait/the thing he’s best at?” Any idea where this comes from?

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

enterprises can remain irrational longer than AI developer productivity companies can remain solvent

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

interesting. images and videos of what, elon?

tweet from elon musk: "With the release of version 1.0, Grok Imagine is now generating more images & videos than everyone else combined!"

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Here’s what I’ve learned after 3 kids: - babies are pets, it’s like taking care of a hamster - 2 year olds and above are people, you just talk to them - 1 year olds are fast freaky little aliens with no reasoning and no sense of self-preservation, good luck.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

SINNERS is a smart, stylish movie that people actually saw, enjoyed, and talked about. The Oscars should always be recognizing movies like this. They’re actually rarer than you think.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Need a plausible theory for how Minneapolis became the main character of the 2020s

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A child of mine, historically a selective eater, just downed his first-ever cheeseburger. After each bite he said “This is the best thing I’ve ever tasted.” As soon as it was gone he groaned “I never want one of those again.” yep, that’s the cheeseburger experience. Welcome to America, kid.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Finally saw an ‘Avatar’ in the theater, in 3D, and like … I get it now.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

TIL that Christopher Nolan is red-green colorblind, and suddenly so many things make sense.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

silent night, holy night - cool all is calm - sounds amazing ALL IS BRIGHT - wait what round yon virgin mother & child - why is it bright holy infant so tender and mild - it's bedtime sleep in heavenly peace - TURN OFF THE LIGHT FIRST

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I just realized that Charles and Mary Lamb's famous children's book "Tales from Shakespeare" was published closer to the writing of Shakespeare's actual plays than to the present day.

screenshot from Hamlet's Wikipedia page, showing the play was first performed between 1599 and 1601

screenshot from the "Tales from Shakespeare" Wikipedia page, showing the first edition was published in 1807

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

“Mary, Did You Know?” or as I call it, “Mansplaining: The Christmas Carol”

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The story of this year's re:Invent expo hall is "booth inflation". Two-story palaces with built-in podcast studios! Custom art installations! Theater lighting rigs! Companies are dropping 7 figures on these McMansions.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Really doesn’t get better than seeing your little kids push back from the table with their cheeks still bulging out from their last mouthful of Thanksgiving leftovers, racing off to play with their cousins. That’s what the holidays are all about.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My old Toyota Sienna just transported two fairly large couches across town without so much as needing to have the back hatch tied open. I could easily stuff a queen mattress AND box spring in the back of my 2001 Ford Windstar. Minivans are hilariously useful, no home should be without one.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

3 kids in, and I finally have one who likes the taste of amoxicillin. This is a game-changer.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

@emilyfreeman.bsky.social and I finally started a podcast! Get your dose of B2B sass wherever fine podcasts are vended (vended? vent? anyway, there's venting): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

My plan to drive to KubeCon from Charlotte is looking more and more defensible.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I feel like the biggest takeaway from the latest AWS outage is that there’s simply no architecting around them at this point. Even if you are 100% redundant/multi-whatever, your vendors and customers are certainly not. Order volume is dropping no matter what you do. We’re all in this together.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A little encouragement for everyone dealing with the AWS outage today: youtu.be/rK_7ozvm53o?...

youtu.be

That Sinking Feeling (The #HugOps Song)

YouTube video by Forrest Brazeal

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Watching an old musical that includes some fight choreography. And I’m again confronted with the sad fact that in modern movies, our fighting looks better but our dancing has gotten much worse. 😢

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

it's 9 am on a Wednesday and my 3 year old is chilling in pajamas, eating a cup of noodles and watching Spiderman. How do I tell her it only goes downhill from here

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

There is no such thing as a children’s book

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m a pretty diehard Tigers fan but I have to admit that a Mariners-Blue Jays ALCS would be insane. I’ve been to Blue Jays games in Seattle before. The crowd is 65% Canadians who sneak down from Vancouver. That playoff atmosphere would be unlike any other.

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

“Please do not adjust your seat and ask a crew member for assistance” is a grammatically ambiguous instruction. So you want me to do neither of those things? Or I can adjust as long as I don’t ask? Or I can ask if I don’t adjust? Please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks this every time I fly

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Planning to stop by All Things Open in Raleigh next week - who else will be there? Would love to say hi and catch up in person!

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Forrest Brazeal @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Apparently the Girl Scouts now give out corporate-sponsored badges which you can earn by completing key life skills challenges like going to see Gabby’s Dollhouse The Movie. Seems fine

A screenshot from the Girl Scout website showing the “exclusive Gabby’s Dollhouse patch”

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