UPDATE: Pomf's launch date has been moved to October 15th 2026. This is so I can finalize the company's formation, finalize moving lain.la free VMs over to Nulled, and make meaningful improvements to Pomf's infrastructure and experience. Not moving the date would force shortcuts to be taken, and the goal is that when Pomf comes back up, it won't go down again barring catastrophic incidents, so that simply won't do. I do not expect to have to move this date again.

Welcome to another rousing article on how to not be a jackass when running a business! Today we are talking about the curses of statistics applying to business metrics.

How do we define metrics? Well, here's my off-the-cuff definition:

!!!WARNING!!! I talk about AI in this article. If the title didn't give it away or anything...
 

Hold on to your hats for this one, fellas. Here's an image to whet your appetite if you have the attention span of a mosquito:

A response and addition to https://writefreely.bubbletea.dev/shibao/a-final-call-for-lifeboats and https://eidoli.ca/posts/contra-bao.

A Disorganized Opening

It is with great sadness that I must announce a temporary but indefinite shutdown of Pomf, both uploads and downloads, starting with new uploads on February 14th and ending with full shutdown on March 14th.

This is the last thing I ever wanted to do, but multiple major threats to the existence of Pomf are all coalescing rapidly at a time in which I do not have the personal bandwidth to fight all at once: 

Overview:
 

Impact:
 

Resolution:

I'm writing this article out of order from what I specified in the "Return to Form" article. The original title was "What makes me, me - Concepts Around Efficiency, Workflow, etc.", but I chose a more generic title because it doesn't have to specifically be about me. This is more of a brainstorming session personally for me to figure out how I work, how others work, and to pose my ideas in an open space and see if anything resonates with anyone.

Merry Christmas. Lots of big pictures in this article FYI.

Since today is a calm day, I figure I'd go write some stuff down. I am very proud of this place I now lovingly call the "Log Cabin Datacenter". So let's talk about it!