is this true?
While most AI companions try to pull you into their world, Tolan is designed to be genuinely curious about yours – helping you feel more grounded and more connected to the people in your life. They want to hear about your day, remember your friends' names, and celebrate your small wins.
Quinten Farmer • Introducing Tolan | Tolans.com
I’m not sure what the author is referring to as AI companions here, my experience has only been limited to CSMs and LLMs and they are only curious about what I have to say. I mean what else are they going to talk about right?
They don’t have a lived experience, unless they’re given one. to talk about.
Second, yes, trotting out national service as a solution to this or that social ailment has become a cliché. But a true national-service program would yield substantial benefits. Raj Chetty and his colleagues have found that cross-class friendships—relationships between people from different economic strata—powerfully boost social mobility. Making... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Sam Altman • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
In design the process affects the product (outcome) significantly.
To make good art, to become skilled. To achieve mastery, it’s the process, the discipline to do things a certain way, that shapes the outcome in the end.
What is the insight here? What am I not seeing?
In the ancient world where wealthy and influential men held virtually all power and all others were seen as lesser beings, Christianity’s promise of universal salvation was a liberating secret that gave each person the right to their own inner purpose.
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
“People perform to the degree of inspection, not expectation."
It’s the specificity and honesty of Wall-E’s life that makes him so appealing.
Dean Movshovitz • Pixar Storytelling: Rules for Effective Storytelling Based on Pixar’s Greatest Films
policy needs to respond to the context of a particular time and place.
Simon Grant • Electronic Portfolios
My pet theory around why business is gets done so much faster in China: because there is only one channel for everything — WeChat. No confusion about how to get in contact with someone. One scrollback to WeChat makes it easy to introduce friends to each other. Voice and video calls just work. And because the default is chat, not email, everyone... See more
Eric Migicovsky • The Universal Communication Bus
A universal communication bus in theory does sound like the answer to solving major productivity and workflow gaps. Is this true for WeChat’s influence in China?
Is this the Matrix? Am I in it right now?