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ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental
the choice humanity faces in every age is between the idea of power and the power of ideas
“I would make sushi in my dreams. I would jump out of bed at night with ideas.” Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Ferrero, and Colin Chapman all did the s
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
When everything is measured in terms of engagement, content will be optimized for addictiveness. Not entertainment or artistic merit. Not intellectual
Today most algorithms that recommend or suppress content act purely on the basis of inferred popularity. They look at how much time people spend engag
as a network scales, it is inevitable that you need a way to sort & rank content. web 2.0 solved it by ranking for popularity but a better approach co
· Are we being reprogrammed by algorithms? In the last edition, I mentioned a recent tweet-er-xeet post by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Jack suggested
We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it
humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe
I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.
New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale. It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited q
The ‘tetrad’ or ‘laws of media:’ enhances: awareness of inclusive, structural process obsolesces: dominance of logical method reverses into: techno
The ‘laws of media’ can’t tell you everything about any medium, but it does give us something remarkable: predictability. We know that anything we can
Artima - The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
Academics too often mistake the confusing for the complex and the complex for the sophisticated.
Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in -Jeff Bezos
After 18 days of diving deep into crypto, I didn't come out of it a decentralization maxi. There's space for both types of software, community, and ut
The New Internet failed to provide a clear enough plot, a straightforward enough of a product, nor legible enough of a movement to fend off the effect
For every new subway ad featuring an online pharmacy and a nice monstera plant, there was a new pop-up skate shop soaking up the runoff of Supreme tee
In an era when people trust businesses more than they trust governments and nonprofits, companies are uniquely poised to spark wonder and curiosity. W
If Twitter had to start over without its graph, on the other hand, it would be dead (which speaks to why Twitter clones like BlueSky which are just Tw
Twitter became about arguing, Instagram became about showing off, Facebook became about people you went to school with saying weird things. The most
Social media has also proven to simply not be that efficient in terms of matching high quality content with a relevant audience. Just because people c
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right communi
design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of one’s values. And this is how we go about the world. We make
When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the typeface of least resistance.” Ti
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over
A great story about simplicity from Akio Morita, the instigator of the Walkman project at Sony: Engineers had the technology to add the recording func
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and de
The engineer who truly understands the problem often finds that the elegant solution is simpler than anyone expected. The engineer who starts with a
Why So Many of the World’s Oldest Companies Are in Japan
The short-term crowd is always too distracted to notice the long-term crowd slowly compounding. An investor obsessing over daily economic data misses
All you have to do is just be 5% better than everyone else who’s really bad at it. You don’t have to get everything perfect… you just have to be a lit
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.
Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impo
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard
Kind Words is arguably the best game for any person feeling lonely, as it can be enjoyed even by non-gamers. The objective is to write and receive let
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
it is very Good™️ to have many many small moments of connection - a hello, a goodbye, a ‘have a good day’, a bit of chitchat - with each person we enc
i live my life this way. almost every day is full of multiple tiny interactions with no aim beyond a hello, a how are you, a smile and then i continue
As someone who very much enjoys podcasts I continue to be frustrated that so much information is locked up in opaque audio files. How do we make all o
“Audio feels like a secret hiding in plain sight. It's leverage on both sides, and it's unbelievably easier to create something that's great in audio.
