reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
The Great Note-Taking App Shitshow
drunkonideas.beehiiv.com
A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane
posthuman.blog
whoa
what is even real anymore?
fascinating short read on status, sorting and prestige in sports (and everywhere else). The people you might expect to be the most competitive are often the most welcoming, and vice versa.
One Battle After Another - AppleTV
tv.apple.comAnd 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.
Deep Roots, Hard Looks, and Change — Permanent Equity: Investing in Companies that Care What Happens Next
Emily Holdmanpermanentequity.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.”
sobbed pretty much the entire last episode