Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
The muse and angel come from outside us: the angel gives lights, and the muse gives forms (Hesiod learned from her). Loaf of gold or tunic fold: the poet receives forms in his grove of laurel. But one must awaken the duende in the remotest mansions of the blood.
Federico García Lorca • In Search of Duende
Incidentally, this is one of several reasons that wealth taxes don’t tend to raise a lot of money. When you start taxing financial assets, those assets become less valuable to investors, because owning those assets now means getting taxed. So the market price of the assets drops, which reduces the amount of tax revenue from the wealth tax.
Noah Smith • There's not that much wealth in the world
• Discover people whom you love doing “nothing” with, and do nothing with them on a regular basis. The longer you can maintain those relationships, the longer you will live.
Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
The pitch is that creators and business owners will use these AI profiles to talk to their followers on their behalf. They’ll be able to talk directly with humans in chat threads and respond to comments on their author’s account. Meta says Instagram users in the US can get started with AI Studio via either its website or by starting a new “AI chat”... See more
Instagram now lets people create AI versions of themselves | The ...
Anyone at MSCHF—from the four-person design team to the chief legal counsel, who practiced law with Obama in Chicago—can suggest what to build next. They’ll enter the idea into a Google document. A central brain trust of five people, consisting of Whaley and the four other founding members who joined in 2019 (including Wiesner), reviews the ideas... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
• When you find yourself procrastinating, don’t resist. Instead lean into it. Procrastinate 100%. Try to do absolutely nothing for 5 minutes. Make it your job. You’ll fail. After 5 minutes, you’ll be ready and eager to work.
Kevin Kelly • 101 Additional Advices
Post-it notes are so powerful because they have a spatial relationship to their context.
Julian Lehr • A Meta-Layer for Notes
Volume may be up, but creativity is down – and at the risk of shocking the army of selfie shooters, I have to tell you that this is by design. Our supposed acts of creativity are just another node in corporate production. Such is the real tragedy of the death of Kodak: it exposes the devil's pact between our own narcissism and the brutal business... See more