moments spotted
i’m tired and
my window to the world
has no curtains
my window to the world
has no curtains
quirine brouwer • all my friends and i talk about is getting rid of our phones
People on social media are constantly trying to destigmatize being “try-hard,” because you can’t really be online without trying. But it will never work. It will always be more compelling to garner people’s admiration naturally than to do it on purpose, and the people best at that will always be the most interesting, culturally speaking.
Haley Nahman • #89: The death of sex
All of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing. W... See more
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing. W... See more
Jenny Wen • Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process
Now we can shift the equation from how much we do to how well we do it. But with it, we will need to rethink and reinvent the model of what these outcomes are worth. Is an outcome worth the sum of imagined time previously spent, some equation of usage based or aggregated compute, or, ideally, something new entirely? Can we readjust cost centers awa... See more
After Hours: In Search of Native Business Models
New pricing model for AI services
I want you to visit my website. I want you to read an article from a search result, and then discover the other things I’ve written, the other people I link to, and explore the weird themes I’ve got. I want some of you to read my article then ask me to speak at your conferences. Many folks rely on ad impressions to support the high-quality content ... See more
Sophie Koonin • This website is for humans - localghost
With documents, or the final versions of a piece of writing, there is an expectation of completeness, of having cleaned everything up. But in the draft, the embarrassingly cliche, the half-baked, the naive, all of this is allowed to exist. A useful draft is curious, it doesn’t insist on being certain or even good. What it asks of you is honesty. In
... See moreFrom Are.na Annual 2025 book
Multiple Selves
Selves are signs. Lives are thoughts. Semiosis is alive. And the world is thereby animate.
We humans are not the only ones who do things for the sake of a future by re-presenting it in the present. All living selves do this in some way or another. Representation, purpose, and future are in the world—and not just in that part of the wo
... See moreA computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer’s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to co
... See moreStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node4.html
“Why does consciousness have to be something that’s created? Why isn’t consciousness something that can be accessed and tapped into? I think of the brain as being more like our smartphone, that it’s got different apps and some of us have apps that others of us don’t.”
— Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell