Mike Monroe
@monroe
Mike Monroe
Lots of people worry that AI will replace human writers. But I know something the computer doesn’t know, which is what it feels like inside my head. There is no text, no .jpg, no .csv that contains this information, because it is ineffable. My job is to carve off a sliver of the ineffable, and to eff it.
(William Wordsworth referred to this as... See more
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Adam Mastroianni • 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look
... See moreAlex Tan • #059 Environment Design
Far too often, the money that companies spend on digital marketing is just lit on fire. All the companies are competing for all of the same shoppers using higher bids as their only advantage. Swaypay flips that on its head. It amplifies an existing behavior - people telling friends about the things they bought - and rewards shoppers for doing so.... See more
Packy McCormick • Swaypay: Not Boring Investment Memo
Our identity, then, is not, after all, something we can bestow on ourselves. We cannot discover or create an identity in isolation, merely through some kind of internal monologue. Rather, it is negotiated through dialogue with the moral values and beliefs of some community. We find ourselves in and through others. “We never get to the bottom of
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Something that @jessepollak introduced to the @base team is "work zones," inspired by heart rate zones.
It's been insanely helpful to clearly align the team, and balance the intensity of our work culture and sprints with important rest and recharge.
As the year wraps up, the Base core... See more
Purpose is about pursuing something outside yourself as opposed to pleasuring yourself.
Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy
True loyalty is emotional and irrational, and often at odds with our survival instinct. To achieve it, brands are better off with membership programs than the point schemes. Figuring out a good membership scenario is even more important today with a proliferation of subscription models, private chat rooms, and an ever-increasing costs of paid... See more
Ana Andjelic • From Loyalty to Membership
Aside from the doomers who believe that AI will kill us all and the techno-utopians who believe it will solve all of our problems, there are three main ways that people seem to be thinking about AI.
At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and... See more
At one extreme, you might fear that AI will take your job. Certainly, you’ve read as much in the press, and it does seem to be getting better and... See more
