Agalia Tan
- Software engineer Kent Beck on why creators struggle to release projects (and why people in general don't take action):
"By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback."from 3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
- Don’t ask yourself where your true gifts lie. Ask what other people seem weirdly bad at.
from 50 Things I Know by Sasha Chapin
- AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.
from Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
- the best content on the internet is created by people who have turned research into their leisure activity.
from research as leisure activity by Celine Nguyen
- The brand should be more living, the world lives on social, the brand needs to fit within that world and that world is made up of real people and real interesting stuff. It's not made up of brands and it doesn't have these rigid rules. It's less of a brand and more of a character and a writers room.”
from #40 – On dialogic brands, better presentations, terrible ads, and influential yellow lines by Maximilian
The Hunt for Grey Swans—Top 15 Methods & Frameworks—#1 CIPHER
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possib
from Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling by Maria Popova
- common knowledge is now harder to generate at the level of a nation, and easier to generate at the level of a group. That’s a perilous combination.
from The Ruffian, Special Edition: Book Club
- Overtime we’ve begun to treat this nuance and ambiguity as friction and something to program out. Computers don’t like it. Algorithms can’t categorize it. So we remove it.
Yet we so desperately need this “in between” and neither “yes” nor “no” thinking.from Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction by Matt Klein
machines are trying to be more human, but are we? and moneyball