Frank's Blog

  A story about a 2 month journey into real estate, double-entry bookkeeping, and the surprisingly philosophical experience of debugging session cookies - an 8hr session. The Setup (No Pun Intended) It started simple enough. A multi-member real estate LLC. A single rental property for my daughter.  A shared need to track income, expenses, depreciation, and eventually file IRS Form 1065 with Schedule K-1s for each partner. The existing workflow: a tangle of Jupyter notebooks, Excel sheets, and a shared Google Drive folder with files named things like `LLC-WB-Group_Final_FINAL_v3.xlsx`. Maintainable by no one. Auditable by no one. Tax-season panic every year. The goal: a proper double-entry ledger, automated IRS form population, and a (python Flask) web editor so any partner could review the books from anywhere —hosted on .com PythonAnywhere, so there's no server to babysit. The plan: build it with Claude. Two months later, we have version `v0.7.0` with the LLC editor app/views ...

I discovered there is even a bit of controversy around who authored the Serenity Prayer.   The earliest reference is from 1942 where an AA member shared something from a NY newspaper's orbituary column.    The following was found when one googles author “Niebuhr's contributions to political philosophy include using the resources of theology to argue for political realism. His work has also significantly influenced international relations theory, leading many scholars to move away from idealism and embrace realism. A large number of scholars, including political scientists, political historians, and theologians, have noted his influence on their thinking. Aside from academics, activists such as Myles Horton and Martin Luther King Jr., and numerous politicians have also cited his influence on their thought, including Hillary Clinton, Hubert Humphrey, and Dean Acheson, as well as presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. " Inquery to Interactive Visual Graph The ab...

I just started getting into Claude (chat, cowork, code) app and was very confused by their contracted pricing and usage model.   I asked claude to explain these in human terms and suggested they need to explain it via  "day labor contract" .    Below I have included the " Full AI Labor Contract " as explained by claude ai.  I have choosen to described the contract in human terms where Kcalories is used instead of this mysterious "token" cost.  Otherwise, I believe it reflect's claude ai pricing contracts. If you wonder how much an AI worker cost, suggest spending some time there.  My Conclusion: AI Workers and  Flow Theory Effectively, claude ai is now becoming my day laborer.  And it can do ALL SORTs of work just like any day laborer can do, e.g: sweeping, concrete work, welding, bookkeeping, coding, cooking receipts,  drafting docs, etc...  With AI, its about the tasks and the effort per task.  As I grew more dependent o...

From the beginning of time humanity was built for the Garden of Eden where everything was plentiful, our goal was to be fruitful and muiltiply and our primary vocation involved active participation in cultivating, maintaining, and protecting the natural world.   No Death, No Birth.  No concept of labor/occupation. Then the great fall.   Let's look at humanitarian trends through the eyes of man's accumulated knowledge, ie AI.  [NOTE:  Please take time to view the conclusions by different disciplines below!] View of Humanity for the past 2000 years Let's start with a "simple" perspective of of humanity for the past 2000 years : mortality X consumption. Mortality : view of Death to Births accross all humanity (per century - bar graph). Consumption : view of Calories Consumed to Calories Burned by all humanity (line graph).      Human       BIRTH:DEATH         (Bar Graph)  Human ...

There are so many posts of what is happening in the Middle East and all over.   One post of a young man giving words to the hell he has witnessed is hard to view.    Whether the post are real, AI generated, propaganda, or earnest human witnessing - I can not say. It is clear that the atrocities occurring across the Middle East are real, confirmed and beyond words.   And thus emotions *may* cloud discernment from a given post.   Most importantly, for me, is that this is not a simple binary choice when it comes to speaking truth to the situation.  My Capricorn partner seems to cut thru everything to a simple rough perspective: X is good, Y is bad. I do not.   Why?  It is not because my principles are made up of jello.   My principle are grounded in my faith and my love of humanity with all it's complexities.   Grace is such a wonderful angel.  In the Bible, there are 17 explicit instances where “hardening...

Sometimes the energies around me collide to bring light into our connection with God.  In my life... my cousin is in the hospital struggling with a septic infection, so many others within my family /friends are struggling with health issues of this and that, and so many us are facing the dynamics of mental/emotional/relationship issues.  Such struggles are real!  And it is in dealing with those anxieties that my sister's meditation spoke about. When we can not do the things that frees us, that bring us pure joy and can not free our minds to be in "the flow"; ie. the times of freedom and rich connections with all the energy in the universe and closeness to God.  Anxiety is the loss of those connections. At the same time  I watched an AI podcast try to answer the question  with a single word: "what is it that people should do more of?".  Simply, AI answered "pause".  For it is in the pause, ie. the times in-between the stimili of our lives where we ...