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Easier, then, to strip the art of these larger contexts and references from the art, which conveniently also makes it easier to sell.

Before the internet demanded our attention 24/7, television, radio, and lifestyle magazines had a very specific grip on the zeitgeist, combing youth c

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul

the writer cannot do the reader’s thinking for him

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

i cannot express to you how bizarrely large the rewards of consistently writing opinionated + technical essays are. it is good for your own brain, it

The ideal conditions for our best work aren't the same as the conditions for our comfort. Super annoying. The best stuff comes from less comfortable p

Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have

The Hugging Face Incident is, in a distorted and dangerous way, an illustration of what the AI companies are trying to achieve. They want long-running

One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality. Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are esse

I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti

A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.

People ask whether I ever feel bad. Usually this happens after someone learns the books are rare, so I explain that rarity is really just an inventory

Critical Atlas of Internet

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered th

Just a moment...

That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political f

collectively-owned social and cultural institutions built on decentralised infrastructure: democratically governed manifestations of collective intere

We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines a

the answer for publishers in the age of AI is no different than it was in the age of Aggregators: build a direct connection with readers. This, by ext

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia

generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way

Perhaps this pattern of radicalisation followed by recuperation has even happened with each emergent technology – newspapers, novels, film, (pirate) r

Much of the pleasure of “generating content” — whether through a machine or by some other means, about oneself or about other things or about other th

Browsing the internet used to be a hobby of mine. Ever since my dad got us a modem when I was around ten, I spent hours at a time just looking at diff

What we’re seeing isn’t just a media trend. It’s a shift in the architecture of power. Attention → Speculation → Allocation. This is the new supply ch

The five principles of prompting I developed work equally well as management techniques for humans: Give direction. Describe the desired style in de

People who are good at solving poorly defined problems don't get the same kind of kudos. They don’t get any special titles or clubs. There is no test

2) Clear Roles & Decision Rights Without clear swim lanes and decision rights, individuals on teams feel disempowered and projects tend to stall out.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.

Queer Ecology, a type of resistance ecology that has emerged to flip the script on mainstream ecological concepts by examining the relationships betwe

Seeing the country laid out in that way, its biodiversity charted on a menu, the place I had been living in or traveling around for eight years at tha