James Stevens
@redwolfwhite
Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
a bunch of everything apps vying for customers feels less like a race for innovation and more like empires warring over territory. Tech companies are running the same data-hungry playbook with their everything apps as they did in the markets that made them so dominant in the first place. Even OpenAI, which has evolved from a little-known nonprofit ... See more
Matteo Wong • One App to Rule Them All
The voice of novel technological communication has been, almost from the beginning, a female voice, which is to say the voice of a helper, a perfect helper, pleasant, unflappable, immune to insults, come-ons and bossiness. It’s a short path from the telephone operator to Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, both forever placating, always even-keeled, i... See more
Has the Internet Changed How Women Sound?
Early prepubescence teaches you the unacceptability of
smelling like yourself in public. It’s an unsolvable problem
that will follow you to the grave. Your only options are
temporary, and rarely work.
smelling like yourself in public. It’s an unsolvable problem
that will follow you to the grave. Your only options are
temporary, and rarely work.
That’s a fucking insight right there. A proper fucking insight.
The divide between performance anxiety and a feeling of
frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to
information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to
receive daily low balance notifications. We know our
preferences are being calculated and used to predict our
next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands
off the joy... See more
frictionless ease swings on the consumer’s response to
information. It sucks to be broke, but it sucks even more to
receive daily low balance notifications. We know our
preferences are being calculated and used to predict our
next moves, but we still don’t feel like we can take our hands
off the joy... See more
“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.
To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”
- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1
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Fast food is increasingly looking like a luxury 🤯
To return to the gym analogy: a good fitness trainer will help you to safely exercise and grow your muscles. And you will be uncomfortable. But you will be safe.
The job of a leader is not to protect their team from discomfort. It’s to protect them from harm—and to help motivate them to push through the discomfort and harness it for growth.
As NYU mo... See more
The job of a leader is not to protect their team from discomfort. It’s to protect them from harm—and to help motivate them to push through the discomfort and harness it for growth.
As NYU mo... See more