reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
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.
AI will enable people with imagination more than it will enable people with money
Rift · For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work.
christophermeiklejohn.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.”
From Jeff Bezos’ conversation with Lex Fridman:
... See moreIf you think about the good old days, they're mostly an illusion. Like, in almost every way, life is better for almost everyone today than it was, say, 50 years ago or 100 years ago. We live better lives, by and large, than our grandparents did and their grandparents did, and so on. And you can see