provocations
provocative ideas, musings, and statements to mull on
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provocations
We don't necessarily need to constantly interact with people “around” us on the web. The sensation of being in the quiet companionship of someone else, like reading next to them in a cafe, is what we're missing. The sense of ambiently sharing space – of being co-present – while engaged in other activities is a staple of shared public spaces that we
... See morearon • Ambient Co-Presence
The most valuable resource isn't algorithms, compute, or even just data. It's context.
Tina He • Context is all you need
Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness" is the real reason you find it hard to get started
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Quotes
Beyond the Binary
open.substack.com
Draw a distinction – and cross it.
“…move beyond our comfortable binaries and recognise them as interfaces: places of friction, possibility, and perpetual movement. Every meaningful change, every genuine innovation, arises at the interface—where differences meet, transform, and evolve.”
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