Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
“ Stories are actually a form of technology. They are tools that were designed by our ancestors to alleviate depression, reduce anxiety, kindle creativity, spark courage and meet a variety of other psychological challenges of being human. ”― Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks
Sally Mallam • The Science of Storytelling
In the course of writing Superbloom over the last few years, I found myself losing patience with the prevailing critique of social media and the internet, the one that portrays the technology as something imposed on us by an imperious external force (progress or capitalism or Big Tech or what-have-you) and that in turn depicts us as the hapless,... See more
Nicholas Carr • Botched Little Animals
Author Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the gradual decline of services as they prioritize value extraction over value creation for users, a process he views as an inevitable consequence of platform capitalism.
subvert.fm • Subvert
Of course we all claim to hate complexity, but it’s actually just complexity added by other people that we hate — our own bugbears are always exempted, and for things we understand we quickly become unable to even see there is a potential problem for other people.
Luke Plant • No one actually wants simplicity
Nossa relação com a complexidade: só não gostamos quando é a complexidade adicionada por outras pessoas. Me lembrei da frase de Sartre, “o inferno são os outros”.
You need to understand how much companies abhor paying humans. They want nothing more than to pay for AI instead — because computers can’t unionize.
It doesn’t matter if AI gives the worst results ever seen — they’ll keep trying until they get something barely acceptable.
David • Coca-Cola’s New AI-generated Christmas Ad Is as Bad as You’d Expect
Paciência não é lerdeza. Paciência é capacidade de deixar maturar, seja uma ideia, um afeto, um projeto, um negócio, um estudo. Isso significa que pressa é diferente de velocidade. Fazer velozmente é uma habilidade. Fazer apressadamente é um equívoco. → (Educação, escola e docência. P. 70)