Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
CTO and maker of linkitylink.lol
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself.
TikTok Won. Now Everything Is 60 Seconds.
Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.
Invent and Wander Quotes by Jeff Bezos
But “ How could we get more enterprise-ready? ” has never been a north-star principle for great user-focused software.
Atlassian Acquires The Browser Company for $610 Million
Unlike Gruber, not only do I get the appeal of Arc and even Dia to some degree, but I was a massive Arc fan. This sucks though.
The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.
Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
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 on the internet.
My Internet: Liz Franczak
I read nearly every post from Jon Haidt’s After Babel, but a recent one entitled “Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus” really helped deepen my understanding of how we got to where we are now as it relates to anti-Semitism. It feels especially important as a parent of young children to understand “common enemy identity politics” vs. “common humanity identity politics” so we can identify it and discuss it more effectively with our kids and community.
