Opinions on Davis Cole

Work-life balance

Sat, 16 May 2026 14:30:03 -0400

If you’ve read any of this blog you’ll know where I stand on this. I think it’s impossible to live a fulfulling life without some form of work.

I’ve certainly taken this to the extreme, where I could experience a lot more life with doing very little work, but we create prisons for ourselves to cope with reality.

Knowing that I’d rather troubleshoot Azure DevOps Pipelines CI failures at 2am instead of going out and drinking makes it obvious who I am.

God

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:13:57 -0500

Anything related to politics and religion is a landmine, but I think I can handle this gracefully.

I was raised Christian, going to church regularly until middle school when the family got too busy. I attended Sunday school as a child and played trumpet in the choir for a couple years.

I took courses in Western and Eastern philosophy in college, which has informed some of my perspective.

I’ve recently been influenced by ideas of Gnosticism, in part due to Prof. Jiang on YouTube.

It's not a bubble

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:30:56 -0500

I don’t think we’re in an AI bubble. People always point to the dot-com bubble as an example. Though I wasn’t conscious at this point of my life, my understanding is that speculation was wild for trivial things (pets.com etc.).

While there is wild speculation on the order of hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars, there is something useful here. Unfortunately, this utility is best leveraged by large companies looking to generate more slop (code, media, etc.)

Cryptocurrency

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:17:20 -0500

I don’t think this one should be as divisive as it seems.

The concept of money and currency is a social construct. History shows we’ve used livestock, shells, barley, and other instruments before moving to more familiar silver/gold coinage and paper money.

I don’t see digital cryptocurrencies as any different.

I think about my balances in my bank and retirement accounts. None of it feels real until you actually withdraw or spend something.