Collections

Prickles and Goo

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

Work | TINA TARIGHIAN

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

If you’re going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direc

these days, if you can’t see the noose of a politically charged security apparatus wrapping around previously-abundant artificial intelligence, I’m no

The psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist identified precisely this pattern in patients with right hemisphere brain damage. They remain art

I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th

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

Movies Frame By Frame - In Random Order

the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e

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

I was reading an article about the state of SaaS recently, and came across this line:The data moat surrounding incumbent SaaS / systems of record is l

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

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

Rob and I had to face the truth: Matter is a great product—3x App of the Day, with many thousands of passionate users—but it isn’t the next Duolingo.

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,

This is the part most debates about tech and democracy miss. The real question is whether the underlying architecture creates incentives that concentr

And you have to offer it sustainably. Sustainability isn’t a thing you think about after you’ve designed a product. Your product’s business model is a

A room is not just a data structure. The moment you draw a boundary around a social space and say “these people are in, these are the rules,” you have

People withdrew into smaller spaces where trust could once again be accumulated rather than continuously spent. Communities became increasingly bounde

It did not seem like a good idea to me that some of the richest people in the world were no longer rewarding people for having any particular skills,

If language were sufficient to express human thought, why would we need visual arts, music, dance?

“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h

A conversation between Alex Dobrenko and Douglas Rushkoff on the spiritual nature of awe, rescuing the human from the machine, and why the future depe

We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce

A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper