reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
What Makes His Taste So Good?
nytimes.com
He’ll be like: ‘Why is that? Why? What’s the purpose? What’s the intention and what’s the purpose?’”
Letter #199: Trae Stephens (2024)
open.substack.com
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
worrydream.comWhy We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro...
docs.google.com
had to read this several times to grok it but applied to a real-life example.
It’s hard to design the perfect onboarding. but it’s easy to check: “Did the user reach ‘Aha!’ in 3 steps instead of 7?” or “Did 80% of users complete the flow?”
So the industry (and people) naturally get pulled into automated loops. this is why mid-training is powerful and dangerous. it can manufacture the appearance of discernment while dodging deeper unmeasurable criteria.
“They have learned to produce the appearance of discernment without ever developing the faculty itself.”