Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
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Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
The odd & antique thing about tariffs is that they only apply to physical goods, even as more & more of the economy has become intangible. For the U.S., this is very convenient. What do we export? Software, light as air.
Robin Sloan • The Golden Sardine
Atomic is doing an MDR Dasher Keyboard. I’m not going to order one, but daaaaamn.
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For fifteen years we have been building, at planetary scale, a machinery of disattention: social platforms that auction attention by the millisecond; search engines that outsource memory; feeds that weaponize emotion for engagement. The result is an economy that grows in inverse proportion to our capacity to think. Now the data have arrived like a... See more
Under 40's Declining Memory
If I was ever going to retire, I certainly wouldn’t tell anybody about it. You just wouldn’t hear from me again. It’s like saying, “I’m not going over to your house tonight.” And you go, “Well, you weren’t invited.” And I say, “I know, but I’m not coming over.”
Brent Lang • Paul Thomas Anderson on ‘Licorice Pizza’ and Moviemaking: ‘Anyone Who’s Done This Knows That Confidence Is an Illusion’
Funny shit and