reading, watching & listening to

sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking

sari

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Simon Willison simonwillison.net

Opinion | Jeff Bezos: The Hard Truth: Americans Don’t Trust the News Media - The Washington Post

Jeff Bezos washingtonpost.com

The Comfortable Life Is Killing You

Poetic Outlaws poeticoutlaws.substack.com

Contrasting Aesthetics

rauno.me

Models All The Way Down

knowingmachines.org

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

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.org

great writing style. ALL CAPS. shouting on the page.

Fell in a hole, got out.

medium.com

Letter #199: Trae Stephens (2024)

open.substack.com