ganesha

apps and windows have these artificial boundaries: they are each a data silo keeping their things in and other things out.

although an email, a calendar event, and a note might all be inextricably related, you have no way to reflect that in today’s operating systems.

Online, it’s especially easy to believe in a transitive property of collecting — that by collecting something and announcing your collection of it you acquire some part of its shine.

Corporations, individuals, and experiences are all told they must cultivate an "image" for themselves… something synthetic, believable, passive, vivid, simplified, and ambiguous all at the same time.

The goal of human-centered AI is not to develop AI that mirrors the entirety of humanity, but that reflects aspects we most admire.

A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer’s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to

instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists… first and primarily, for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks… in order to validate its existence.

build a world that the RIGHT people… your kindred people… will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love