iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 25/06/2025

Is it just me or do a lot of SWEs have a findom relationship with Claude Code and Cursor?

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/03/2025

"Grok3 is the best language model, it's based"

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day! I made a social network for sharing what you love... and what you hate! Made with o3-mini-high in websim. Post here: websim.ai/@rob/lovehat...

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 31/01/2025

My dog had a nervous breakdown from me watching a show with a fire alarm beeping without headphones on. These guys used to be wolves, what happened???

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 09/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #5,555!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #5,555, Rob Haisfield ‪@robhaisfield.com‬, joined on Apr 3, 2023"

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 08/11/2023

Dog owners, I have a problem. Bennie's **highly accurate** internal clock says that his first dinner is at 5:00 pm, and his second is at 9:00 pm. His clock does not recognize daylight savings time. He's sulking. Would you feed him an hour earlier to satiate the beast?

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 18/10/2023

I love this one, where it says "one egg, infnite possibilites" while giving this family more eggs than anyone has any idea what to do with that are all either raw or hard boiled

Illustration in a 1950s vintage style showcasing a classic family breakfast scene. Parents and children are gathered around a table filled with various egg dishes. The room has pastel-colored walls and retro furniture. The text reads: 'One Egg, Infinite Possibilities!'.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 18/10/2023

Unleashh the power within: eat egs

Vector poster with a minimalistic design of a cracked egg, revealing a golden yolk inside. The background is a simple, flat blue. The text below the egg reads: 'Unleash the Power Within: Eat Eggs'. The font is modern and sleek.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 18/10/2023

I think DALL-E 3 misspellings are cute tbh. Last year it couldn’t even get letters. It’s growing so fast ❤️ (images are propaganda for water lol)

Illustration-style 1950s propaganda poster with a muscular man of Asian descent and a woman of African descent, both in period attire, proudly showcasing their water bottles. A ribbon banner reads 'Water: The Fuel of the Future!'

Photo-style 1950s propaganda poster featuring a diverse group of people in vintage clothing holding water bottles, with the caption 'Stay Hydrated, Stay Healthy!' set against a vibrant background with sun rays emanating from the top.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 15/10/2023

Most people never revisit their notes. They make decisions and come up with ideas based on recent memory, vs. a lifetime of experience and insight.

Photo of a modern office setup with a computer monitor displaying multiple digital notes and documents. As they are being viewed, they start to swirl and distort towards a black hole that appears at the center of the screen. Around the desk, other physical notes begin to levitate and spiral into the monitor's black hole, symbolizing the unstoppable pull of the void.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 27/09/2023

I love how every link to this page, "Hypertext enables communication with high information density," is an example of its own point scalingsynthesis.com/the-common-f...

A screenshot of the website linked in this post, click there for better text

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 14/09/2023

Aside: I like how this version of the meme does not have an IQ bell curve in it. To me, the image evokes someone trying to level up from their simple system, struggling to hold a bunch of moving parts together, and then defaulting to the simple system with what they learned.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 02/08/2023

An excellent feature in Notability that I'm shocked hasn't made it into other note taking apps: - You can record audio while typing or handwriting notes - In the playback, clicking on a specific part of your notes jumps to the timestamp in the recording

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 09/07/2023

Fellas I just WON MY GIRL A GIANT SQUISHY STUFFED ANIMAL AT THE FAIR by breaking a beer bottle with a baseball. Boyfriend bucket list item achieved ✅

Holding a baseball, with my girlfriend who is holding the stuffed animal I won her

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 03/07/2023

Reading about Clippy Seems like a good chunk of the complaints come down to "don't make me tell you twice." Besides that its ability to accurately guess user intent + surface relevant material were probably super constrained by the tech gizmodo.com/how-i-made-clippy-lovab…

Just OCR it plz Bluesky, the image text is in the link I shared tho

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 03/07/2023

This is my attempt at piecing together notes on different perspectives on developing expert intuition, adjacent to good taste. They're pretty old notes, but they'll make it in the book somewhere And a blog post on my approach to developing my intuition: robhaisfield.com/notes/hyper-learni…

sorry I can't do better alt text here but the platform should really just implement OCR for this sort of thing

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 02/07/2023

Realizing now that I'm gonna have to talk about Clippy at some point in my Continuous Onboarding book

Clippy offering advice in Microsoft Word about how to write a letter

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 18/06/2023

Rob, explain Continuous Onboarding right now, in one breath, standing on one foot. Btw I'm thrilled to be writing a book about it, covering behavioral science / game design principles + case studies so you can see your software apps through my lenses. I'm accepting clients while I'm writing 😄

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 18/06/2023

If you invest in user acquisition without a product designed to reliably keep them invested, you're wasting money and effort that would be better directed to product improvements. Continuous onboarding is core to your company's bottom line (charts are generated to make a point, ignore numbers)

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 07/06/2023

I want heat vision, personal dashboard HUDs so my life feels like a video game of my creation, never forget a name, get live translation / subtitles in a multilingual convo, to leave digital sticky notes and widgets around the house... but monitors everywhere is cool AR too I guess 🤷‍♂️

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 06/06/2023

Bennie is a little too big to be a lap dog, but that's all he wants to be. Unfortunately, I've failed to find a desk chair wide enough to include him. So I have to choose between screen space enhanced productivity at my desk or cuddles on the couch and more casual work. iVision Pro fixes this.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 05/06/2023

I've been playing so much Tears of the Kingdom lately that I got weirdly excited by the #WWDC23 announcement that they were going to add topographic views to Maps. Legend of Zelda made topographic maps click in a way Geology 101 never could.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/06/2023

I think it’s a bit of a cope to say things like “just writing things down means I’m more likely to remember them,” “the best ideas will come up again naturally,” & “I just need safety.” They haven’t done what needs to be done to experience the benefits of a compounding mind

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/06/2023

Great piece. I particularly like the bit about how people maintain notes systems for a sense of psychological safety, and the ways that note taking apps can break that trust, either through search not being as good as you thought it was or something not actually being there. However…

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 26/05/2023

Fun fact: the 3rd most popular LogSeq plugin, “Bullet Threading,” was my design, from part 2 of my winning submission for Roamgames onboarding challenge. It was meant to communicate how indentation affects filtering / queries. See the whole submission here

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 23/05/2023

Mine: Replace backlinks with “related content” (screenshot, click links): scalingsynthesis.com/i-replace-the-… Enable composable queries: scalingsynthesis.com/i-enable-compo…

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 23/05/2023

I read "IKEA for advanced AI is worth considering" and got unreasonably excited. What could it mean? No-code app builder? Data sets and instruction manuals for composing AI systems? Idk but it's an evocative phrase!

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 21/05/2023

Exploring the world in Tears of the Kingdom, seeing the fog of war lifted as I skyrocket out of each zone’s tower, makes me wish there was a way to replay a time lapse of the map being filled out so I could recall my adventure.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 19/05/2023

We still doing animorphs? Nobody’s ever been able to give me a good celebrity lookalike, so @girlsloveevidence.com tried plugging a photo of me into some AI app. I think it just looks for similar shapes and orientation and makes a gradient between them. It gave me Sundar Pichai lmao

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 19/05/2023

The tiny wolf waiting for me to join him on the couch

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 11/05/2023

Heavy breathing. Works even better as a gif.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 11/05/2023

Hrnnng I was planning a whole ng+ for Jedi Survivor but I guess I’ll just move on when I finish it lol Tears of the Kingdom too hype

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 10/05/2023

Different emotions distort our perception in different ways. For example, when we're anxious and worked up, our internal dialogue gets heightened verbal capabilities and becomes very convincing in its dumb planning and problem solving attempts (see the worry section of the flowchart)

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 10/05/2023

So rn I'm using the GPT-3 playground to convert AT Protocol URIs into URLs so I can quote post them or navigate to them more easily... and it somehow it knew that this last one applied to a user named Daniel? wtf? I manually taught it the ones for myself and Emily. Should be @dholms.xyz but still 😱

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 07/05/2023

Bluesky when we have both Thought Posting AND Thot Posting

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 06/05/2023

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦? We get to fundamentally change the game - suddenly, our algorithms grow more aligned with our goals, working in our favor. blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-30-2023-algor…

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 06/05/2023

😅 𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙣 🤦‍♂️

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/05/2023

Gonna post more dog, why not, it’s Bennie’s 7th birthday (we think). We adopted him so don’t know exactly how old he is, but we clipped his nails and counted the rings. Here’s Bennie hanging out with my grandma in this position for 20 minutes without so much as a single squirm. Laid back boi.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/05/2023

Yes that is a toy vodka bottle (dogka) from Costco. We also have a bottle of Cabernet Slobberon (another Rover dog)

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/05/2023

Anyway good morning, few things make me happier than a double dog armrest. I promise l'm wearing shorts but with COVID-era upperwear it wouldn't be surprising if I weren't. Goldendoodle is a rover dog, the Thicc Terrier is mine.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 04/05/2023

You're using a social network to search for PvP conflict. I'm trying to conjure scenius. bsky.app/profile/robhaisfield.com/p… www.packym.com/blog/conjuring-sceni…

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 03/05/2023

Aha! I can finally search my own posts, and use multiple words! This code is really dumb, but it works. First I fetch all of my posts. Then I filter it for posts that contain all of the words I put in my CLI arguments. Then I convert the URI to a URL using this GPT-3 template.

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 03/05/2023

Like I log onto Twitter and the first thing I see is a new paper that shows LLMs can literally go from brain imagery to text generation with rough accuracy. Why isn’t this all over my skyline? www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-ai-ena…

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 01/05/2023

Discourse around who or what to ban is object level, and distracting them from getting to the point where everybody's feedback is actionable by released tooling Expressing criticism of the system is fine, but a ton of research has gone into their hypotheses and we'll need to wait and see

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 01/05/2023

Creative work demands both implementation and evaluation, and chatbots need you to evaluate their response at each step. Interfaces that enable you to directly implement for a period allow you to see a train of thought through, whereas you can forget where you were going with a chatbot's broken flow

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Rob Haisfield @robhaisfield.com · 01/05/2023

She also points out in the intro that users don't know in advance what the chatbot knows. GUIs aid discoverability better than command lines or chatbots GuidedTrack shows available commands vs. requiring you read documentation. This approach is referred to as "dumping the parts bucket on the floor"

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