Brad Barrish

@bradbarrish

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I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking... See more

Just a moment...

Life

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AI and

What if you could instruct customers to migrate via prompt? First time I have seen this. Hard not to unsee it as a possibility.

Mass marketing peaked in the 90s, and gave us classic, memorable ...

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Great ads

Apple Think Different - Steve Jobs Narrated Version

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I had seen / heard this previously, but it popped up again today. Easily one of the best commercials ever made. Hearing Steve’s voice not only gave me chills, but choked me up as well.

James’ extensive and outstanding work as an editor has never been recognised. It started early: in his introduction to the revised edition of The Adding Machine , James noted how closely he was already working with Burroughs from the mid-1970s on his columns for Crawdaddy magazine. More substantively, he worked from the original manuscripts to edit... See more

Obituary #8: James Grauerholz

We're all going to die

RIP James

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Linkity Link and Cool Web

A new personal favorite. If you’re a fan of minimalistic, human-curated link sites, this will be your jam. You may also like The Brutalist Report.

There are two types of people making stuff: content creators and artists .

Both are creative. But there is one distinct difference: Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Artists are not.

Content creators are willing to trade control for speed. Creators are trying to get a good-enough cut, a performant-enough ad, or an

Scott Belsky • AI & Artistry, the Resurgence of Hardware Startups, & Unicorns that are Really Rabbits

Creativity and Art

I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of.

Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments

Human Stuff

a note from a believer:

Sari, I remember that as a kid, I always knew I was different, and wanted to show it. I’d tie my Converse shoelaces in the shape of a star, I’d zig when others zagged, I’d take pride in being Mexican in my mostly White North Carolina small town, and this all showed through in my work. I was Me. And somewhere along the way,