Otis Chandler

Facebook was born from a website made for elite students to rank their classmates’ sexual attractiveness; Twitter was a watercooler where bored office workers could get attention by telling jokes in public. It’s as if 3M’s accidental invention of Post-It notes while failing to make space glue landed them a UN veto.

ChatGPT can now search the web in a much better way than before. You can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more.

Sublime flips the job of notes. Users drop in an idea, and then fall down a delightful path of related ideas. The value comes from connecting ideas, not merely saving them. Essentially, it means that note-taking is more akin to going on a guided trip through the intellectual wilderness. For example, save a quote about note-taking, and up pops a... See more

Watching this from inside the media, I’ve experienced two contradicting feelings. First is a kind of powerlessness from working in an industry with waning influence amid shifting consumption patterns. The second is the notion that the craft, rigor, and mission of traditional journalism matter more than ever.

Last year, the billionaire investor Marc Andreessen, a friend of Bezos’s who once gave generously to Democrats, announced that he would back Trump. In a recent interview with the Times, Andreessen said his cohort believed that the Biden Administration had targeted the tech industry “in a very broad-based way.” There were, he said, “lots and lots of... See more

When I’m writing in Google Docs, any time I get stuck with a concept, I can select a sentence, press “CTRL” + “R”, and Sublime’s browser extension (available in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Arc) will pull up relevant ideas, like this:

The efficiency and overall offensive brilliance of Gilgeous-Alexander (with an impressive 38 points on 12-for-21 shooting) should be the talking point of Game 2 — especially on a night he was awarded the MVP in front of the passionate Oklahoma City fan base — but the Thunder’s ball movement remains supreme in this series.