Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
salman.io
The best post on the ethics of AI I’ve read. Robin is a master of words, and has a perspective on AI that is sorely needed.
How does C. S. Lewis do that, every paragraph is a book https://t.co/Th1Fchsa3k
sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.
milk and cookies • why feeling lost might mean you’re finally doing it right
Don’t break the promises you make to yourself
"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert
Quoted this in my piece on the value of routine: Rewards of Routine
Japanese Kissa by Kissa, Norm Maclean, Toni Morrison, Akiya in Japan, Howtown, Bobby Fingers, and more — Roden newsletter issue 094
craigmod.com
Why is maintaining your own online independent nook important? Because the big companies are all fraught, you just have to choose which level of fraught you are willing to stomach. Yes, terrible things are happening on X, but Meta has also catalyzed arguably far more terrible things on a far larger scale. Email and an Apache or Nginx web server are a couple of the last bastions of (mostly) apolitical online publishing mechanisms. And nobody can take them away from you or go out of business under you.