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More thoughts about words, language and learning → vokabulo.com
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Some mistakes deserve gratitude.
You say something wrong.
Someone corrects you.
You laugh.
And suddenly the correct version is permanently burned into your memory.
Meanwhile the twenty words you studied carefully yesterday have disappeared.
The brain has interesting priorities.
Apparently embarrassment receives premium storage.
A mistake you remember can be more useful than a rule you forget.
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Vokabulo 5.7 is out. 🎉
It has lots of small improvements, fixes and refinements - the sort of things nobody will ever open the app and say:
“Wow. What an exquisitely improved edge case.”
But hopefully you’ll notice that everything simply feels a little better.
Which, come to think of it, is also a pretty good description of learning a language.
No dramatic transformation overnight.
Just lots of tiny improvements until one day you realize: Hey. I can actually do this.
Vokabulo 5.7 is live. 🚀
P.S. Try the new widget. Small feature. Surprisingly addictive.
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Ready to move past the green owl and learn the vocabulary you actually need for real life? Check out the best Duolingo alternatives for serious language learners in 2026!
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Husband and I tried Miami for 1 year after living in SF and NYC tech scenes.
Very top heavy - mostly successful founders and VCs who go to live in their nice houses and aren’t out there being part of the community
Tons of larping founders - I got invited to some “female founder dinners” and every single woman showed up dressed for a kardashian wedding and had obviously spent all their time in the salon, not building a startup
The grifting is real - we won Miami Hack Week in 2023. The $10k prize money did not exist and it took 6 months to even get a hold of the organizer. He never paid. When the next Miami hack week came around, I tried telling 3 people in the community. Organizer told them I was a liar and that I had been paid. This bullshit would never happen in SF or NYC.
Miami hack week seems to have a new organizer now so I’m hopeful it’s being better managed.
Thanks for sharing your candid thought process, gets the message across to those who want to listen!
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Would always argue, if the output sucks you need to keep tweaking the prompt to your satisfaction
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Fully agreed, turning parts of the immigration department into a headhunting firm for international talent fighting for future tax dollars!
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