provocations

Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things.

People are intrigued by LLMs’ ability to generate new text, change styles, and generally chat. While impressive, turning text written in one style into text written in your own voice (or into legaleze) is essentially taking unstructured data and turning it into more unstructured data. I’m surprised about the lack of attention to doing the exact opp... See more

if you’re so intelligent why isn’t your life more cozy?

A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that the majority of respondents would prefer to live in a world where TikTok and Instagram did not exist!

Dear @Apple, not a complaint, but an emoji curiosity: help me understand why 📈is red, and not green. And why 📉 is blue, and not red.

I find myself all the time without a great piece of content to consume. And the demand-supply thing just hasn't reached an equilibrium yet, maybe it never will. And audio is unique in the sense that it is at least 10 times easier to create an unbelievable hour of audio for me, and my format's interview, interviewing someone great like David. That e... See more

"You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." — Ernest Hemingway⁠