Every - essay bits inspo

collecting fragments of inspo for the essay I’m working on with Every
full essay here: https://every.to/thesis/the-end-of-productivity

sari

I just want to do writing that feels honest

visakan veerasamy • if i'm honest with myself

People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link dou... See more

Fernando Borretti • Unbundling Tools for Thought

Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us.

Molly Mielke • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"

A great thing about taking notes is that it subtly encourages you to live a ‘notes-worthy life’ You end up seeking interesting conversations to build your memex; experimenting with new recipes to add to your collection; reading more widely to find surprising connections etc.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff twitter.com

i relate to this. one of the nice things about having a Sublime library is that it helps me pay attention to what I pay attention to

Because we are each an individual, infinitely complex being, our different physiological, environmental, and cultural variations bring us to infinite different endpoints. Like it or not, we all see the world slightly differently and our creative expressions reflect this.

View Profile • The A.I. Lie

Can artificial intelligence help us to be creative? That’s the important question, and it’s a question about user interfaces, not about who has the biggest model.

Mike Loukides • Artificial Creativity?

The future of AI is full of paradoxes: productivity versus job displacement, innovation versus inequality, empowerment versus dependency, and enhancement versusdehumanisation.

The Future of Work is Entering its Synth Era

empowerment vs dependency

I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves using our new AI technology in more deft ways than generating more content for humans to evaluate. I believe the real game changers are going to have very little to do with plain content generation. L