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

The Great Note-Taking App Shitshow

drunkonideas.beehiiv.com

On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales

The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.

asletaiwan.org

Will capital-havers or capability-havers gain the most from AI?

Lars Doucet fortressofdoors.com

AI will enable people with imagination more than it will enable people with money

Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google

theverge.com

Ten blue links isn’t the answer for search, but neither is an all-purpose text box. Search is everything, and everything is search. It’s going to take a lot more than a chatbot to kill Google.

Why Aren’t AI Agents Working?

Evan Armstrong gettheleverage.com

agents is such a fucking buzzword. nothing i have tried has worked well in the "abstract + precise" zone

A universal, absolute, and infinite theory of vibes

Sam Kriss samkriss.substack.com

Rejection Isn’t Personal

Heather Havrilesky ask-polly.com

The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

amazon.com

Technology and Grieving

Ranjan Roy readmargins.com

I read this newsletter for years. This father’s story of his daughter passing away brought me to tears.