sparks

How to avoid cynicism:

Act in ways opposite to your instinct. If you hate something, find out more about it. Again ask 'What is this?', 'Who made this?', 'Who is this for?' Genuinely. Never stop doing this"

-via @being_on_line

“don’t complain about being in traffic. you are the traffic.”

AI people think they’re creating some superintelligence apocalypse, but really it’s just the final, hyper-optimized chapter of the existing Internet.

Think smaller

What is technology? It’s technique. It’s the way we all do things. And when you discover a way to do things, its value is multiplied by all who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod rather than the fish. That’s the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you solv

TS;WTRM (too short, want to read more)

*saw this alternative today and loved it. Instead of prefacing with a tldr have a summary then a TSWTRM version

manage your energy > manage your time

H/t Jim Loehr

Ideas from George Mack:

1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.

2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..

The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

worth remembering: so often the shiny new thing quickly shows signs of being mostly hype, while the unassuming, homey option proves its staying power