Jacob Shore — Dispatches
Latest posts
The 10 most recent posts across my projects.
A rolling snapshot of what I have been publishing lately.
Taking Showers In Israel
A cold shower in summer — because the solar water heater ran out. A short Shami story about Israeli logic that makes sense until it doesn’t.
Sounds from Ethiopia
Discovering Amharic music through an InterPals friendship — Teddy Afro felt too flashy, but Zeritu Kebede and Gigi hit different.
Da3i (Need, Reason) — Shami Arabic Word of the Day
Learn the word for ’need’ or ‘reason’ in Shami Arabic (Da3i - داعي) with common daily life examples.
Trying eleven labs for TTS.
A friend of mine referred me to Eleven Labs. Maybe it will help handle a long-standing problem with haki.
Da3if (Weak) — Shami Arabic Word of the Day
Learn the word for ‘weak’ in Shami Arabic (Da3if - ضعيف) with examples for people, objects, and ideas.
Reed, Not Cedar
I built a Telegram bot to catch my passing thoughts, then made it gentler — guided by a Talmudic line about being a reed, not a cedar.
My Morning Routine
A 5:30 wake-up in Shami Arabic — coffee, a walk to the synagogue, Jerusalem Talmud, morning prayers, then breakfast and the job hunt.
Count First, Interpret Second
My personal-ops bot’s weekly digest kept turning noisy logs into confident diagnoses. The fix was one rule: count first, interpret second, diagnose cautiously.
Reed, Not Cedar: Building a Productivity System That Bends With You
I built a Telegram bot to offload my executive function and accidentally gave myself a taskmaster. So I rebuilt it around one rule from the Talmud and the Daode Jing: be a reed, not a cedar — firm but …
Arabic Word, Hebrew Word — A New Kind of Video
A short video in English comparing one Arabic word and one Hebrew word. New format — let me know what you think.
Don’t Clip Your Wings: On Building Systems That Push You Toward Greatness
Completion rate is a trap. The moment your productivity system scores you on what percentage of commitments you finish, the rational move is to stop writing down anything you might actually fail at. I …
Personal Ops: Capture, Digest, Adapt, Propose
Two years ago my Elul accountability experiment half-worked. The problem was friction, not motivation — and I had no mechanism to adjust expectations based on actual performance. So I built one: voice …
