Stuff we're thinking about
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreAI as a way not to replace our thinking function but to enhance the way we input and manipulate a computer.
Me is overrated
We is underrated
Planning is overrated
Planting is underrated
Answers are overrated
Questions are underrated
Virality is overrated
Quality is underrated
h/t Blas Moros
Feist, in a Broken Record Interview on reconnecting with your artistic roots:
It was a way to strip myself of all of the rules that I'd come up with that they were like collated invisibly over time.
Like, "Okay , I don't, I shouldn't do that anymore because that didn't work. Okay, so now I have rule number one. Now, I shouldn't play multiple shows i
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People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link dou... See more
borretti.me • Unbundling Tools for Thought
Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket.
Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap ingredients and shelf stabilizers. Industrial software is filled... See more
