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philosophical content pointing us towards living a meaningful life
Sort of in line with the “build it, and they will come” philosophy, if you make a space for something, you are more likely to engage with it. Put frui
limited scale allows for sanity in both product development and the authoring of books. If you don’t need a billion users or a million readers, sudden
Things are weird. Play with the weirdness.
A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.
cognitive polarization
I don’t know what to say to folks who doubt the usefulness of these tools. There’s a reason companies are going bananas to build out more infrastructu
the messiness of what it means to be human, with all of its messiness and complexities
A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou
Co-Star’s co-founder Banu Guler says in an interview, “The crux of feeling like a human is being able to talk about your reality.”
There’s an old Irish saying that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them
We live in a world where movies aren’t considered art, but intellectual property. They’re “content,” little chunks of stuff that can be licensed, exte
I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti
A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
Jon Carmanica spends the majority of his time fawning over pop-confections like Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny or Kacey Musgraves. The pop that “matters” to
I want to push for the idea that a record doesn’t have to mean something. That the point of music isn’t always to decode it and extract meaning from i
I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti
It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way
Today working on a phone or laptop is associated with upper-middle-class knowledge work. In ten years, it will be a kind of low-status, blue-collar, m
AI stuff
by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigat
It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way
James’ extensive and outstanding work as an editor has never been recognised. It started early: in his introduction to the revised edition of The Addi
the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (
The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn
When we die we always leave things unfinished.
In case I need topics topics to inspire writing
I want to write when I've had a strange thought on a train, or when I'm working something out and writing it down is the only way to do it. Without it
When I look at a lot of what I’ve been writing for the last few years it’s infrequent and too often about things and not enough of what I think about