reading, watching & listening to

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

sari

Are Attention Spans Actually Shrinking? (Pt 2)

open.substack.com

Your Brain Does Not Process Information and It Is Not a Computer | Aeon Essays

aeon.co aeon.co

I'm getting official about this

Rachel Katz open.substack.com

the personal essay genre is my favorite and i enjoyed this one

The Comfortable Life Is Killing You

Poetic Outlaws poeticoutlaws.substack.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

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Simon Willison simonwillison.net

On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue

Joan Didion vogue.com

Accountability Sinks

Mandy Brown aworkinglibrary.com

You Exist In The Long Context

thelongcontext.com

the future value of AI may depend less on raw computing power and more on how effectively organizations curate the information they feed into these expanded context windows.