Agalia Tan
- “communal computing.” What I care about most is technology as a medium for humanity. I care about making technology feel more like a material that we can use to connect better with each other or express ourselves or create things; tools and spaces that allow us to gather, play, and share in the joy of making things together.
from An Interview with Spencer Chang | Are.na Editorial
- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman on making the most of your opportunities:
"This is something a teacher told me years ago, and he's right:
If you're auditioning for something that you know you're never going to get—or maybe you read the script and didn't even like it, but you still have to go—if you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has ... See morefrom 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
- Everyone is making it up as they go along. Even and especially the people who seem like they’re not.
- So how can we get people to accept a new idea? Show how it is a natural extension of the things they already believe.
from How Ideas Grow
- Something that’s been on my mind is flipping the relationship between the human and language model when going through a creative process. It seems that we often want to ask questions of language models, and we expect them to brainstorm ideas or give us answers, but I wonder if another fruitful pattern here is having models ask questions of us .
from ChatGPT as muse, not oracle
- Digital gardens have largely been understood as websites that allow users to explore and publish thoughts in more fluid and unpolished ways. The term “digital garden” is not new. It’s been shaped by almost two decades of pondering, from early tinkerings in Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay “Hypertext Gardens” to Mike Caulfield’s 2015 talk “The Garden and... See more
from On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
- It's not enough just to do something extraordinary initially. You have to make an extraordinary effort initially. Any strategy that omits the effort — whether it's expecting a big launch to get you users, or a big partner — is ipso facto suspect.
from Do Things that Don't Scale by Paul Graham
- Artificial Intelligence is not going to make this any better. New research suggests that AI is reducing complexity, or at least our experience of it. A recent study, The Platonic Representation Hypothesis , shows that as AI models become more powerful, they form increasingly similar statistical representations of the world. The result is that we ar... See more
from 🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You