Andy Claremont
@andymci
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Building things on the web for a living.
Andy Claremont
andymci.com
There are people that talk about things they love and people that talk about things they hate.
Webdesign as architecture
www--arc.comPolicies and proofs of concept can be useful, but they don’t generate economic value. For generative AI to be truly valuable to companies, they need to customize vendors’ language or image models with their own data, and do the internal work to prepare their data for that integration.
Harvard Business Review • Is Your Company’s Data Ready for Generative AI?
To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
Kevin Kelly • 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
12 Questions For Life
maximiliankiener.com
Life and A Good Life
Many concepts can be explained concisely, in simple language, and we should all strive for clarity. But the aphorism is a mistake, for a number of thoughts approximate the carpenter’s craft, and to meaningfully reveal them requires time and attention. Sometimes these cannot simply be told to another at all, they must be grown. For a topical... See more
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way... See more
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way... See more
Adam Mastroianni • So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more