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Bernbach once said, “An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.” Why settle for dust when you could have magic?

ASAP: As SLOW as Possible When to Take the Long Road in a Shortcut WorldWhen to Take the Long Road in a Shortcut WorldWhen

For a while, I would often use AI as a kind of second set of eyes on day-to-day emails: I’d paste in a draft and ask, “Does this all sound right?” or,

The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth

All human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘wait’ and ‘hope’!”

don’t live each day like it’s your last. live like you’ll make it to 100. think in centuries.

We’ve replaced time in the field with time on our phones. What we now call experience is the weighted average of our own and the residue of what other

generate 3 alternative mobile UI flows for our onboarding experience, optimized for clarity and low cognitive load.” “simulate how a distracted user

"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused p

my current ChatGPT custom prompt -- curious what others are using/doing? Have been slowly iterating over time... -- At the start of a response, creat

Current AI custom prompt: You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and

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It takes yesterday’s trends, remixes them with today’s keywords, and spits out tomorrow’s mediocrity. It’s not thinking. It’s rehashing. Recursively,

We must choose the “longest way round” because meaning is neither fast nor viral nor optimized.It’s made. Slowly. Painfully. Honestly.By humans.

But what felt new was the speed and violence with which language now manifests markets. I’d sit in meetings as a single phrase “AI-native vertical Saa

The AI moment sharpens all of this because it changes the scarcity. As is well discussed, the precise selection and careful arrangement of words becom

To those who read broadly, the hand of the LLM is so clear it’s as if the writer’s intellectual fly is open.

once it clicks that you can make anything, you want to make everything.

Muse’s cutesy appearance and tone hits my mind like cilantro hits my tongue.

THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore

And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those

Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88

true masters feel the answer before they can explain the answer in words.

The future is unknown. It is also unknowable. No amount of rational thought, scenario planning, and optionality maximization can allow you to predict

For decades, technology has required standardized solutions to complex human problems. In order to scale software, you had to build for the average us

1. Embracing ‘Anti-Scale’According to John their maximum audience is capped at 200,000.“If we have 10 million subscribers we've pivoted. Something's g

Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and

When the institutions are optimized to fund the legible thing and the individuals are optimized to build the legible thing, the identity of the founde

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

In times of uncertainty, another way of thinking, working, and living together is possible — and necessary. There may be a tendency to default to fami

Yes, the gardens have fallen into decay and the flowers are gone. We can mourn that loss. Or we can ask: what kind of work will let us grow them again

I came of age in the Napster days, when only fools spent money on anything digital. Early on, we decided that we’d rather pay for the internet with at

One mistake I often used to make at Justin.tv was offering a potpourri of business models (virtual goods, product placement, chat ads, contests, etc..

The problem in media isn’t the business model. The problem is that most of the content sucks.

Ads have ruined company prioritiesIt used to be that we design for the best possible experience. But then “free” came around. Nothing is really free,

Much has already been written about parasocial relationships, and I am of the mind that they are a logical outcome of the death of God plus late capit

The honest assessment is that social media’s effects appear highly dependent on context, user characteristics, and platform design, creating both genu

Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make the