Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.
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AI and AI AI Captain
I feel this intensely and think about it all the time. Many people for whom I have tremendous respect, people I have been reading for many years, people who I look to to make sense of the world really do seem to dislike AI. All I can tell you is that for the last few years, I have been obsessively playing with it, building things with it and spending a lot of time trying to make sense of it. I can’t stop. It’s the exact same feeling and drive I had when I first installed Mosaic in the 90s. But this feels quite a bit different.
Absolute truths 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 at 20. Life requires a certain amount of curiosity and exploration. Life is an open world game. It rewards you for exploring. And capitalism cannot fucking stand that. It wants you on rails.... See more
How to live off the rails
The more we unself by widening the aperture to let the world in, the less we suffer.
How to Feel Whole in a Broken World: An Astronaut’s Antidote to Despair
A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
Vagueposting, or vaguebooking as it was originally known, is a term to describe the act of posting something intentionally unclear and confusing online in an effort to egg on engagement.
Grace Byron on vagueposting
After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.
Ev Williams • Making “Social” Social Again
Slow The Fuck Down and Remain in the now
I keep coming back to this incredible quote from the beginning of Desert Island Discs with Sir Jonny Ive.