reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
But here's what most creators ignore: overwhelming volumes of information isn't value. It's stress.
A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
posthuman.blog
whoa
what is even real anymore?
The curse of the Michelin star
economist.com
When a restaurant gets a Michelin star: Customer expectations rise, employee wage demands rise, suppliers expect you to pay more, and the restaurant is more likely to go out of business in the ensuing years.
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
measuring something’s value by how much money it makes is like measuring he value of sex by the amount spent on prostitution
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.
lovely, from my fave restaurant in London
Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 2)
open.substack.com