Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
LLMs are mid. It does a good job at getting the average and this is useful in many areas where this is tough. When you want "good", LLMs let you down. We underestimate the impact doing things to a "mid" level will have on the world.
Paris is not in pursuit of perfection. "Most of my shit's bad," she laughs, "I'm not trying to act like I'm some savant, like this is some fucking Picasso shit." She points to her friend, prolific YouTuber and filmmaker Casey Neistat. "He's like 'I won't put anything out there they don't think is amazing and I don't give a fuck how people receive... See more
Elizabeth de Luna • The business of being Victoria Paris
When things are innovative, nobody really cares what they look like.
Invest like the Best • Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
We are on a trend “inward”, where capital, our proxy for GDP, is better served deployed into things that generate more capital, instead of things that generate production.
Jake Cooper • The Inward Draw of Capitalism
By thinking about a ML problem first as a set of inputs and desired outputs, you can reason whether the input is even sufficient to predict the output.
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
Jim prepares well for conversations, predicts what people are going to ask, always has something to say.
Jim Collins • #361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath - The Tim Ferriss Show
Arcades should help members prioritize their path into a community. It should help them make decisions about where they want to go and what they want to do. If users know what information is important to them, they can make this decision better. The community arcade should give a view into the community from the outside without overwhelming users.
Ian Vanagas • Always Be Onboarding: Creating Community Arcades
DOOM embraced the idea of shared creativity. Rather than requiring the user to start from a blank slate, DOOM provided the structure and tools which allowed people to re-combine and add things to an existing system. This lowered the barrier to entry, not only in terms of the required technical skill (since it was not necessary to learn to write... See more
Anton Troynikov • Remixable Software - Guest Post
Community Design and