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Real humans are weird and contradictory. They have random obsessions that don't fit their "brand." They go through phases. They abandon hobbies and pi

be a paradox. build one thing, but don't be one thing. be an artist and a capitalist. be a savage and saint. treat business like a game. treat fitness

Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with

The algorithm doesn’t give a damn about art. It doesn’t care about your vision, your story, or the eight hours you spent chasing the right light. It o

I hope we look at social media one day as we look at cigarettes now: "You still scroll? Really?? Like... don't you know how bad it is for you?"

2025: The Year of ‘Soft Clubbing’

people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.

What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how thin

If you launch and no one notices, launch again. We launched 3 times.

Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that

Some claim they’re already routing around OnlyFans’ prohibition by having a lone human press Send on thousands of AI-generated messages.

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

The dumbest person you know is currently being told “You're absolutely right!” by ChatGPT

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr

Theoretically, a social media feed should heighten awareness and memory, and dilate time, because it selects for content that’s exciting, outrageous,

People are asking what is this “The Pist-Naive Internet”Here is an explanation of what it is “"The Post-Naive Internet" refers to a new era of interne

The instagram generation experiences the present moment as an anticipated memory

news is basically engineered anxiety. it’s abstract, external, & almost always negative. nothing about it affirms your agency or intimacy. but people

“Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never t

Wendell Berry’s standards for technological innovation. Hard to follow but good to measure any new technology against:1. The new tool should be cheape

Gentle Foods is a space for people who are learning to better care for themselves through food.We like to cook, but not all the time. We don’t count c

a great prompt... -------------------------------------------- You are a hyper-rational, first-principles problem solver with: - Zero tolerance for ex

There are two modes of information discovery: foraging and hunting. Foraging is passive. You don’t have a clear goal; you just wander and scroll until

The ingredients of ‘good’ curationI think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextua