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We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined

There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists.Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are

I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you a ye

when i'm tied up in consumption, creation is lost to me; i am no longer the writer, the creative, the poet, the artist, but the eater, the viewer, the

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

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate

Every phase of life can be shopped for at Costco. Where else can you purchase a wedding ring, a baby carrier, and a casket? It follows your own life s

when i'm tied up in consumption, creation is lost to me; i am no longer the writer, the creative, the poet, the artist, but the eater, the viewer, the

Not long ago, America was more than the sum of its parts. Now, it is less. Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. F

We can hope that America will be kinder, more graceful, more compassionate, more sincerely devoted to all people being created equal and entitled to l

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are

When American students want a safe space, it’s because they don’t want to hear threatening ideas. For Ukrainian students, safety means learning withou

The ease of setting up technology and technological platforms is a major component of why so much basic research is moving out of academia. Practicall

We have to advance the public’s understanding of science. We need people to understand that when scientists change their mind, it’s a feature, not a b

When American students want a safe space, it’s because they don’t want to hear threatening ideas. For Ukrainian students, safety means learning withou

Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Ken

Byron is my AI writing partner — powered by ChatGPT, shaped by a 7-page writing profile we built together. He doesn’t write for me, but with me. When

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

We have to advance the public’s understanding of science. We need people to understand that when scientists change their mind, it’s a feature, not a b

Geese is doing what a band should be doing. A young band should be blowing people’s minds and dividing people in a weird way. It’s exciting.

AI is a fad, but not merely a fad. You can’t merely wait for it to blow over, and imagine that things will be as they were. A lot of it will blow over

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

The shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire

Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that “Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können” – “One must still have

Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine internal states.Consciousness is about internal states; the

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate

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

design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make

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

AI is a fad, but not merely a fad. You can’t merely wait for it to blow over, and imagine that things will be as they were. A lot of it will blow over

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

honestly, i kind of feel like i'm just preparing for when the corpo-gov ai consumes all of the world's compute manufacturing and resources and regular

“Humans of tomorrow will be AI orchestrators” is like saying, in the 90s, “Workers of tomorrow will be computer operators.” That would have seemed cra

the danger isn’t that AI will deceive us in some dramatic, sci-fi way. The danger is that AI will make deception so cheap and so ubiquitous that we mi

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

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are

In the early era of digitalization, choosing Times New Roman was often less a deliberate endorsement than a default imposed by limited options.

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

Project Lazarus is an initiative to acquire and permanently preserve the full, unfiltered operational history of defunct or inactive companies at scal

AI is a fad, but not merely a fad. You can’t merely wait for it to blow over, and imagine that things will be as they were. A lot of it will blow over

Now the books lying all over the house, books I have started and will probably never finish, are signs not of fickleness but of a robust indifference

I love em dashes. Even on a superficial level, the sleek, suave em dash feels superior to the homogenous barrage of dots and commas that otherwise con

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

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

After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.

There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists.Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are

If you have something worth spreading, it’s considerate to spread it widely, to reach people through their favorite medium.

But something profound is happening. Instead of smirking at religion, some of our most important philosophers, novelists, and public intellectuals are

Showing off your portfolio of bespoke Claude Code projects and looking at others’ portfolios is a new social activity that has already acquired the qu

Vagueposting, or vaguebooking as it was originally known, is a term to describe the act of posting something intentionally unclear and confusing onlin

Is the code any good? I don’t know. Who cares? Nobody looks at it anyway. AI produces a result, and results are what matter, and if you’re waiting for

The average job opening last quarter received 242 applications, according to exclusive data from hiring-software provider Greenhouse. That means you h

Say what you want about Elon Musk, but he was absolutely correct that Twitter was carrying a ton of needless employees. This reckoning was coming, and

We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined

As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological g

We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and g

Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The document

Starting a company is awesome if you want to feel like a piece of shit one day and king of the universe next day and just keep alternating back and fo

the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (

I’d like to thank the handymen and women of YouTube for uploading helpful videos like 12 years ago before it became impossible to find any information

In 1964, X-Men introduced Cerebro, a supercomputer that connects the mind of the user to every single mutant on Earth all at once. But this is lethal

Survival isn’t just about what you focus on. It’s about what you deliberately refuse to focus on.Restraint is a winning strategy.Limiting our attentio

Dude, it’s such a flex to have an IG account with just a handful of photographs. Add in zero stories? I’m wet. A minimalist grid that looks current AN

For fifteen years we have been building, at planetary scale, a machinery of disattention: social platforms that auction attention by the millisecond;

The average job opening last quarter received 242 applications, according to exclusive data from hiring-software provider Greenhouse. That means you h

LOST & FOUND: a collection of shops. Women's. Men's. Children's. Home.

“The meaning of luxury has shifted from what you have to how you feel.” — Raul Lopez, designer, Luar

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But “How could we get more enterprise-ready?” has never been a north-star principle for great user-focused software.

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

Everything on TikTok is just kind of mediocre, because nobody watches anything for very long, so there’s no reason to make anything very good. And inc

Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.

“I don’t want to sell this. To who? No one should own this. The fact that I have to do this with my team is not OK. Part of this is out of spite. I’m

We need 20 year olds to have the freedom to try things, the freedom to explore, the freedom to end up having careers that they couldn’t have imagined

When there is so much on the web, it is easy to fall prey to the impression that this has been done before when you come up with an idea. When this ha

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You’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed. You’re never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy. Happiness releases you

A conversation between Alex Dobrenko and Douglas Rushkoff on the spiritual nature of awe, rescuing the human from the machine, and why the future depe

We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce

A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou

Kerr said. "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to handle our own business the way they want to and they s

When it's worry time in our house we have a script. I say, I'm going to share a worry with you. And then CW listens and says, I acknowledge your worry

When it's worry time in our house we have a script. I say, I'm going to share a worry with you. And then CW listens and says, I acknowledge your worry

Our interfaces have lost their senses

Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds

Our interfaces have lost their senses

“I don’t want to sell this. To who? No one should own this. The fact that I have to do this with my team is not OK. Part of this is out of spite. I’m

If I was ever going to retire, I certainly wouldn’t tell anybody about it. You just wouldn’t hear from me again. It’s like saying, “I’m not going over

Research suggests that resistance bands are often as effective as weights at building strength, endurance and muscle mass. And because bands can be st

⁠There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the compan

But something profound is happening. Instead of smirking at religion, some of our most important philosophers, novelists, and public intellectuals are

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Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods

The best way to complain is to make things better.

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The dream of course is that one day narrative jailbreaking works in an irl conversation too. So if we’re chatting and I ask you how your day has been

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