alex
@alexwastaken
curious librarian
alex
“Ignore the hype – the best brands do” - Design Week
designweek.co.uk
hype without substance fails
the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such excuse is needed. It is true that we get nothing whatsoever except pleasure from reading; it is true that the wisest of us is unable to say what that pleasure may be. But that pleasure—mysterious,... See more
How Should One Read a Book? (Pt. 2) - Tetragrammaton
Vorginia Woolf
Sometimes you want to say things, and you’re missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That’s how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn’t exist.
AI will create an existential crisis of epic proportions, as all the dividing lines that are foundational to society—between reality and deception, truth and lies, fact and error—collapse.
-Ted Gioia
