Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
Creativity and Are you not inspired?!
I believe this will be Yancey’s lasting legacy. Few have fought as hard, thought as long and built in public to support artists and creators the way he has. This was a great talk and it was so cool seeing Yancey on the TED stage (finally)!
I’ve found that it pays to make journaling as “inconvenient” as possible. After I deleted Day One, I returned to writing in a physical journal, and that dramatically improved my mental health, critical thinking, time management, and memory. Multiple studies have shown that handwriting is better for memory retention and learning compared to typing.... See more
AI doesn’t belong in journaling
AI and AI AI Captain
Gear and Mythbusting
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 glory. Another consequence of how thoroughly the internet has flattened pop culture, politics, and real life violence. All of it now is just another meme you can participate in to go viral.
Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme
I mean OF COURSE Laurie Anderson created a GPT of Lou Read. I love her discussion of it. I’m also aware that many (most?) would struggle with technology explicitly intended to “speak” to dead people. My guess is that, similar to pornography, people will dabble in private and speak very little, if anything, of it.
But we’re living in an era when all the old rules seem to be changing, and when the most powerful people on earth ignore all the rules anyway. So might it be worth reassessing your lifelong strategy of following the rules as dutifully as possible?
The Imperfectionist: Do what you want
While this is a Black Friday list, it also serves as a good gift guide. A lot of it isn’t really my style, but there are some good rabbit holes.
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