Alex Dobrenko

For this reason, I suspect that many of my friends who write and publish rapidly are shortchanging themselves. They generate texts filled with hidden doors and move on before they’ve opened them.

It was a multi-armed bandit problem. This problem, which, under a different name, had first been studied by the biologist William R. Thompson in 1933, centers on a rather surreal thought experiment. A gambler faces a slot machine (“a one-armed bandit”), except this machine doesn’t have one arm—following some twisted dream logic, it has k arms, arms... See more

Mental health is serious, ugly, and deadly—yet we’re seeing it co-opted by brands and agencies alike in the name of thinly veiled marketing ploys and social media kudos.

The following was the result: one of the customers of the Glogowski company was a banker by the name of Gustav Perger and he often visited the company. He became familiar with my father, of whom he had a very good opinion, and he suggested that they set up a factory for the production of calculating machines together. In fact he had an ulterior... See more

So, there’s the trick. The path to taste is really as simple as writing a little plus and minus in the margin more often. If we apply this to digital space, we can turn them from an overwhelming and chaotic bombardment into a steady stream of things we find beautiful, that in turn, can define our tastes. For me, Are.na is a space for this kind of... See more

The rabbit hole just got

a lot deeper.

Featuring ten internal sensors that measure pressure, flow rate, temperature and an integrated scale under the drip tray, Meticulous Espresso can handle complex pressure and flow profiling.

Your imagination is the limit.

Ideas, not technology or invention, are what change the future most, and that is what you should be betting on. Parsley has great tech, but it is the shifting cultural convention that will change their future, and every day they are speeding that change along.

The future isn’t new technology. The future is changed people. Your brand should be... See more

The strange thing about Moth stories is that none of the tricks we use to make ourselves loved or respected by others work in the ways you would imagine they ought to. The tales of how clever we were, how wise, how we won, they mostly fail. The practiced jokes and the witty one-liners all crash and burn up on a Moth stage.

Honesty matters.

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"All AI art can really do is add more voiceless noise to the world of relentlessly churning cheap content. If you're a part of that machine then yes AI will inevitably steamroll you, but if you're not it will accentuate your value as a singular voice a person who has something worth saying."

— Mango Street vid on YT h/t to Justin Mather in the

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