Francesco
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Francesco
People talk about consistency like it's the secret sauce to everything you've ever wanted in life.
You've all read the posts.
How you're supposed to show up every single day, publish your content at 8 a.m. sharp, and leave 50 comments. Not 49. 50!
You've all read the posts.
How you're supposed to show up every single day, publish your content at 8 a.m. sharp, and leave 50 comments. Not 49. 50!
Tristan Harris says, in his 2017 60 Minutes Interview, “There’s always this narrative that technology’s neutral. And it’s up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true.”
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
Behind the technology that you use is a team of thousands of programmers who are using your own personalized data to hook you. They are using classic psychological tactics... See more
A brilliant quote (of a quote) from Break free from the Internet (newsletter) that made me think of a response to an argument a friend made recently about how users should take more ownership over how they use social media — as if that’s how you combat the tyrants of Silicon Valley, and not the other way around.
If you're small, you're in a position where it's to your advantage to be weird—you can have a point of view that the big tech companies never could. In the world of chairs—you're not going to build a cheaper chair than Ikea. Why not build something they couldn't—like a more interesting one
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
"I bring things to people's attention."
Rusty Blazenhoff • How to better answer "So, what do you do?"
Is this what I do?
Brilliant notes toward the end of this about why individual action matters
« You won’t lose your job to AI, you’ll lose your job to someone using AI. »
This is another recurring idea in the public discourse. I don’t like it. I think it instills fear by stressing the idea of scarcity (jobs will be lost) and asking people to compete for the now scarce resource (learn AI or suffer).
I prefer a more benevolent stance, even
... See moreGood work advice and artificious intelligence
I’ve always hated that stock phrase as well. This is a brilliant reframe