Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Nerd
Brad Barrish
bradbarrish.com
From the post, What if This is it?
After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.
Ev Williams • Making “Social” Social Again
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.
Matt Webb made a clock called Poem/1 and he's funding it on Kickstarter. So lovely.
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.
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.
Hardware is hard and
I’m not in the market for a wrist wearable. I love my Apple Watch Ultra (and also my Oura ring), but POLAR is a great company and they should be applauded for making a screen-free and subscription-free product in 2025. I hope it’s a wild success for them!
Your mind is programmable. If you’re not programming it, then someone else will program it for you