Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Music and
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
It’s mediocre tools that we have to watch out for. They quietly and persistently corrupt our intent and force us to work harder on the parts that don’t matter as much.
Mediocre tools
Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.
-David Ogilvy
A certain strand of technology might be accelerating, but culture is going nowhere in particular — a decaying orbit around a decades-old gravity well; cycling & recycling; pastiche & déjà vu; playlist set to loop.
Robin Sloan • The Golden Sardine
I will preface this by saying that I know what the phrase "fuck around and find out" means. I was experimenting with Claude and hilarity ensued. I literally laughed out loud.