sparks
Today, I can barely tell anyone apart. Many of the Substacks I follow use these big, figurative words that don’t really make sense in an attempt to go viral, which on this platform means getting subscribers and notes and comments. It’s like there’s this internet language that “works” for engagement (literal language, but also sense of style, and a ... See more
Emily Sundberg • The Machine in the Garden.
everyone is boring
Ignoring AI’s potential is, well, ignorant
Nate Silver • It's time to come to grips with AI
tweets like “consistently amazed by how useless chatgpt is” don’t help the cause.
these tweets are the “equivalent to, in the 1990s, dismissing the Internet as a “pornography and hacking machine. Yes, these are common use cases, but they’re the tip of a massive iceberg.”
I relate to this: “I don’t have any new lessons. But I often think that it’s not the new lessons as much as it is, really, learning the old ones again and again.”
The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Not only has Harvard given me an extraordinary honour, but the weeks of fear and nausea I have endured at the thought of giving this commencement address have made me lose weight. A win-win situation!
JK Rowling commencement address
I hope the sense of struggling, rather than knowing, is palpable here.
Rayne Fisher-Quann • the ends of empathy
love the honesty here - it’s not write what you know, it’s write to understand what you don’t know
My speech at my son’s Bris, 9 years ago:
Thank you all for being here - Rabbis, family, friends- to welcome our son to the world on his 8th day. Like all Jewish events in history, the bris starts with a severe dose of pain…and ends of course with a severe dose of food.
Welcome to the tribe, son!
We wanted to briefly share the origin of our son's name
