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Quotes from the book Read your mind - Oz Pearlman

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The value of being an active participant, one who remains present in every moment and pays attention to every little detail. Quotations from the book "Read Your Mind - Oz Pearlman". Negativity bias means we feel the pain of rejection far more deeply than the balm of praise. The smartest plan is always to de-escalate a situation. The best speakers lead their audiences to a series of specific conclusions, keeping them engaged and entertained and aware of the changes taking place in their minds, which is real-life mentalism. In terms of personal phobias, the fear of being embarrassed is one of the most common. The theory is that the more you accustom yourself to rejection, the better insulated you will be. Sometimes you have to kill your darlings because the audience doesn't care about what you like. Remember, the audience is always right. The courier who ran from the Marathon to Athens to share the good news that the Greeks had beaten the persians did drop dead at the end o...

I Built an AI That Reads 400 Repos and 22 RSS Feeds So I Don’t Have To

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How a knowledge graph, two cron jobs, and an LLM replaced my morning routine Surya Jayanti · April 2026 I manage a platform with 400+ repositories across multiple GitHub orgs. Every morning used to mean: 30+ merged PRs releases I didn’t track wiki updates I missed 22 blogs worth of industry noise So I built three AI systems that read everything for me, analyze it against my codebase, and send a briefing before my first coffee. This is how it works. 1. The Knowledge Graph: Teaching an LLM Your Codebase LLMs are great generalists, but they don’t understand your platform. Ask them about your services and they’ll confidently hallucinate. I call this the hallucination gap . The fix: build a structured representation of your codebase. Why not just RAG? Chunk-and-embed gives you fragments. But real insights live between files : imports → dependencies Kafka producers → consumers service calls → system wiring So instead of dumping code, I extract relationships. 4-Layer Model ...