Nick Rabjohn

e used to spend a lot more time waiting than we do now. We waited for the mail, for the milkman, for the news, for a ship, for a sign, for the bread to rise, for the tide to ebb, for the cavalry, for good things to come. As people were always waiting for something, dedicating special areas in which to do so would’ve been ludicrous.

In the seventies, “Jaws” and “Star Wars” gave Hollywood a new model for making money: the endlessly promoted summer blockbuster. The M.C.U. multiplied the formula, so that each blockbuster begets another. David Crow, a senior editor for the Web site Den of Geek, calls it a “roadmap for a product that never ends.”

Use epistemic grounding, feedback loops, and validation pathways: Your work needs contact with the real world. I share my work frequently with peers and colleagues, as well as the public at large. There’s a simple way of understanding this pattern: form belief » test against reality » refine belief. It’s a simple loop. Testing, experimentation,... See more

I’m frankly confused by the apparent lack of attention and exploration around this use case. Especially since some early indicators suggest the way people are currently using generative AI leads to a reduction in critical thinking:

• A Microsoft Research team (Lee 2025 ) surveyed 319 knowledge workers on their use of generative AI and found “higher

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In that sense, venture can be seen as faith-based finance—a “religion of optionality,” a congregation built around elusive networkeffects. Every term sheet is like a little altar to belief in the future.

What teenagers today are offered instead is a hyperactive landscape of so-called aesthetics — thousands of them, including everything from the infamous cottagecore to, these days, prep. These are more like cultural atmospheres, performed mainly online, with names and looks and hashtags, an easy visual pablum.

Magnus Carlsen on learning from others:

“I have the utmost respect for -- for the masters of the past and they've -- you know, they've uncovered many of the secrets in chess so I think for me my main task is just to try and make slight improvements on that, you know, to amass all the knowledge and try to all the time use that and improve a little... See more