reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Trail Magic
joincolossus.com
What I quickly realized is how many yellow blazers there are in the world and that at many times in my life, I too have been a yellow blazer—opting for easier but less authentic and less interesting routes. The podcast is part of a portfolio of things that I put in place in my life to try to avoid being a yellow blazer, to instead push myself to be more like a blue blazer, exploring anywhere I can.
nuanced piece by Anthropic CEO
But here's what most creators ignore: overwhelming volumes of information isn't value. It's stress.
How to Begin a Creative Life
nytimes.com
a zine exploring how artists work at all stages of their career
Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle; they enter a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those val-ues; and those simplified articulations come to dominate their practical reasoning. Examples include becoming motivated by FitBit’s step counts, Twitter Likes and Re-tweets,... See more
PhilPapers
excellent work by C. Thi Nguyen
And if you want to predict the future, go to a history lecture or set your WARC case study date filter to twenty years ago.
Matt Waksman • Why the future of Planning is Opera, Only Fans, God, and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
if you want to predict the future, go to a history lecture or set your case study date filter to twenty years ago.
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YT is at risk of being a place where only the MrBeasts of the internet that can afford hyper-professionalized content beling or for sub-par AI junk thrown together by bots.