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A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge
Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.
You’ll hear people say:
“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime
... See moreEvery new tool shapes the way we think, as well as what we think about.
Clive Thompson • Smarter Than You Think
when I watch the users try the internet, it slowly becomes clear to me that the net represents the ultimate dumbing-down of the computer. [...] what is about the Internet, with its pretty graphics and simple clicks, that makes users feel so inundated; and about the spreadsheet — so complicated a tool — that makes them bold? [...] the spreadsheet
... See moreExcel may be the most influential software ever built. It is a canonical example of Steve Job’s bicycle of the mind, endowing its users with computational superpowers normally reserved for professional software engineers. Armed with those superpowers, users can create fully functional software programs in the form of a humble spreadsheet to solve... See more
Packy McCormick • Excel Never Dies
Spreadsheets are the long tail of datasets that don’t have their own SaaS tool yet.