
10 scraps from my notebook

In an age where AI can generate anything, the question is no longer "can it be made?" but "is it worth making?" The frontier isn’t volume—it’s discernment. And in that shift, taste has become a survival skill.
Not taste in the superficial sense—not trend-chasing, not aesthetic mimicry, not expensive minimalism for the sake of status. Real taste. The... See more
Not taste in the superficial sense—not trend-chasing, not aesthetic mimicry, not expensive minimalism for the sake of status. Real taste. The... See more
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
AI can write faster than me now. It can code faster, think faster, create faster. But it can't feel the way my heart stops when I read the perfect sentence. It can't know why certain images haunt me for days. It can't understand why some ideas refuse to let go.
That's what I collect now. Not information. Not content. But moments of recognition.
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