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A book is, we know, an unrivaled technology for living more life. The contemporary internet-abetted image, on the other hand, is a highly potent yet f

“Hosting, then, is the art of creating a field in which people can risk thinking together. It is the art of allowing what is fragmented, defended, pas

I post this quote from Peter Block's book "Community" every year. It doesn't get much attention because it's not built for social media: it's thick. B

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." — Anaïs

New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale. It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited q

The ‘tetrad’ or ‘laws of media:’ enhances: awareness of inclusive, structural process obsolesces: dominance of logical method reverses into: techno

The ‘laws of media’ can’t tell you everything about any medium, but it does give us something remarkable: predictability. We know that anything we can

What I call temporal curiosity is the practice of actively directing our curiosity across time – past, present, future – to gain a deeper understandin

“It’s not just you prompting the LLM, but also the LLM as a prompt reversibly triggers your imagination and creativity… Again, the role of the LLM her

Manifestos Are Magic Spells

A Sapphirepunk Manifesto

“Beauty is the mystery of life. It’s not in the eye, it’s in the mind—and it’s because of awareness of perfection in the mind. As a matter of fact, I

when people think about education, they think more about what I would say is a softer component of diffusing knowledge. I have something very hard and

I always try to find the first-order terms or the second-order terms of everything. When I’m observing a system or a thing, I have a tangle of a web o

a Note is something to consider, a Post is something to inhabit. - visakan veerasamy

“Once you see the boundaries of your environment, they are no longer the boundaries of your environment" - Marshall McLuhan

Before you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know

In the generative era, the Remix is the KPI. The work is not the singular piece that touches a million people, but the one that begets a million der

In the generative era, the Remix is the KPI. The work is not the singular piece that touches a million people, but the one that begets a million der

In a long-context world, maybe the organizations that benefit from AI will not be the ones with the most powerful models, but rather the ones with the

The most valuable resource isn't algorithms, compute, or even just data. It's context.

Part of what restricts us seeing things is that we have an expectation about what we will see, and we are actually perceptually restricted by that exp

In ‘How Movies Were Edited 60 Years Ago,’ an editor manually cut film splicing, taping, and rewinding at a near biblical pace. Each move carried signi

Why should what you produce, rather than what you consume, be the most important thing about you? Why shouldn’t the fact that you race boats or watch

consumption choices force you to develop the habit of self-examination. And when you think about more complex life choices — what kind of personality

Truth and falsehood are not opposites.  The opposite of one truth is often another truth, and the opposite of one falsehood is usually another.   - D

When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti

What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?”] What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary] “What

“Vibes are like the sun: we know that they exist, but we can't ever look at them directly. Concepts like community, mentorship, love, happiness, cultu

I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make. Daniel Dennett had a great riff on t

The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You

if project management is the meta of doing work, then managing your psychology is the meta of project management. A moderately-good process maintained

Narrating and listening foster each other. The narrative community is a community of careful listeners. A particular kind of attention is inherent to