Amie Pollack
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Amie Pollack
I have just realized: I don’t want to see everything. I don’t want to know what people do until it’s a story, until the narrative has been constructed. Gatekeep the location, please. Tantalize me with a taste. Give me the tone, not the totality, until it’s ready.
On the Politics of Attention in 2025
“Beginning with the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, the United States experienced a lapse in ability, will, and imagination that was astonishing for a nation that, two generations earlier, had made nine missions to the moon. For almost a decade after the last Shuttle mission, the nation had not been able to send humans into space. It was... See more
Some group of people must exist who are educated, aware, motivated, and at the bleeding edge of a field…who nonetheless have some spare hours in the workweek to spend innovating on something instead of slavishly executing a task.
It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
In other words, if AI replaces all our jobs, it might not because because what we do is easy, or because AI is so good that it can do as well as we do. It may be because it never mattered if we were particularly good at it in the first place.
Speaking of past OTs, a number of you have inquired about “the archive” or “reading past issues” and I am here to deliver the news that the inbox is your archive and there is no way to read past issues except to reply to this email and request a past issue. There are too many of you (and too many issues) for me to forward multiple issues or every... See more