Amie Pollack
@amiepollack
Amie Pollack
Tin Pan Alley
en.wikipedia.org
1) It must be exhausting to read things in order to get mad at them. 2) The social-media internet was built around finding things to get mad at. 3) That motivation ultimately made everything bad. 4) I don’t want to do that; I want people to read newsletters (or articles) because they want to be surprised and delighted by them, because we’re on... See more
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 The internet’s distribution problem
The most compelling publications or media brands are the ones that can throw the best parties, because it shows they can mobilize an IRL group of interesting people, who are then consumers and customers and clients. (See Feed Me, The Drift, Byline / The Drunken Canal cinematic universe.) Media brands increasingly work like fashion brands: Consumers... See more
One Thing • 🟧 the New Rules of Media
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us he'd come for us after we die, and not when we're still living.
Brands who have found resonance with their ideas are “Multi-Platform Narrative Threading” - and telling different but overlapping versions of their story on different social networks, such that fans that are reached across different mediums begin to get a bigger, more holistic view, and feel truly in on the brand story in ways that have never... See more
Scaling Creative Operations
Ambition, then and now
benn.substack.com
But at a minimum, we shouldn’t find our ambitions by accident. If we imagine that we’re no longer in our current pond—that we got fired, or are 16 years old and dreaming about what we to do with our life, or 80 years old and reflecting on what we did—what would we care about then? Are the ladders we spent our time climbing the ladders that we really want to stand at the top of?
and because the algorithm was constantly changing, I had to change with it. I was constantly adapting my visual and verbal style to keep up with trends
My Smartphone Was Ruining My Life. So I Quit.
Another nuance is that most companies and developers do actually not self-host open source LLMs, but use services like together.ai to consume them. Thus, practically speaking, most developers consume open source models in the same fashion as they consume OpenAI or Anthropic models - via third party APIs. Also, most large models like DeepSeek R1 are... See more