reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Dwarkesh Pateldwarkesh.com
Fell in a hole, got out.
medium.com
a beautiful book of aphorisms so packed with insights you’ll want to text your friends or tattoo on your skin
As I will use the term, then, a sermon is any message designed to change or reinforce what a group of people value. It might take the form of explicit exhortation, full of shoulds and shouldn'ts , oughts and mustn'ts . Or it may be entirely implicit, like the story of a selfless act that saves the day, huzzah! Commencement speeches, TED talks,... See more
Kevin Simler • Here Be Sermons | Melting Asphalt
David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
screencraft.orggreat writing style. ALL CAPS. shouting on the page.
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
amazon.com
Building Learning and Fun into Your Applications
The content explores integrating learning and fun from game design principles into applications, emphasizing interaction design, user engagement, and creating effective, enjoyable user experiences.
lostgarden.comA game must teach you new skills only when appropriate, get you to care about a goal, and of course help you have fun. Why are games so good at this when software is so poor at it? This talk teaches you how to build fun software applications.