Sakib Ahmed
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Sakib Ahmed
In 2013, the Chicago Sun-Times fired all 28 of its staff photographers. Every single one. Including John H. White, who had won a Pulitzer Prize.
The plan was simple. Reporters would shoot their own photos using iPhones. The technology had gotten good enough. The cameras were in everyone’s pockets. Why pay 28 salaries for something the existing staff
... See moreThe "Bullshit Jobs" meme did a lot of psychic damage
Few jobs are "fake" like (e.g.) human toll booth collectors in the age of all-electronic tolls
Jobs like bridge painting--and other Sisyphean maintenance tasks where "success is when nobody notices"--are extremely important!
Alex Armlovichx.comI see why rich people are assholes, non communicative, and dismissive often. The older you get the more you realize most people are just grown children who just want to waste your time with non sense. They have no results but somehow feel like their opinions should matter just for being human.
I used to wonder why the... See more
Aristotle Investmentsx.com@sdothaney @karrisaarinen @linear The folly of both these charts is their linearity. Neither speaks to how making a product shapes the process and the thinking.
Few things spark creativity and possibility for me than bringing an idea into existence, giving it a real form, and seeing how it exists in reality.
Soleiox.com@waltuuuhr You seek or create opportunities to encounter him, get to know each other, show interest, and create the appropriate setting for romance
"Yin sets the stage so that yang can take credit for acting"
Kayla to NYC 12/18 - 22x.comthe root cause isn’t a technical constraint solvable by ai, it’s the zeitgeist & the norms that have already proliferated through society
What we measure determines what we care about.