Alex Priest

It is a speech by a tech founder who scarcely mentions technology. A few years earlier, Steve told an interviewer, “People sometimes forget that they are very unique and that they have very unique feelings and perspectives. The whole computer industry wants to forget about the humanist side.”

I’m also skeptical of the AI police. Their accusations stink of copy and paste writing. Which begs the question — are the em dash police using AI to write their posts? Probably not. But I wish they would. They’re much more likely to stumble onto something original by copying humanity’s collective literary output than they are copying each other.

The slip-box is the shipping container of the academic world. Instead of having different storage for different ideas, everything goes into the same slip-box and is standardised into the same format. Instead of focusing on the in-between steps and trying to make a science out of underlining systems, reading techniques or excerpt writing, everything

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