To argue against some of this, James Turrell has said that part of the value of Roden Crater’s remoteness is that you have to really care to go there. Getting a plane and a hotel and a ticket, and taking days of time, has some of the same effect for a conference - it gives a selection filter for people who care.
Everybody loves the convenience of ecommerce — and everybody loves complaining about the mountains of shipping packaging it creates. In that tension is our opportunity: eliminating single-use packaging that is expensive, cumbersome, and bad for the planet. We’ve done that by developing light, durable, easy-to-use bags and boxes to replace cardboard... See more
While AI's impact on the future of work is frequently framed in an overtly oppositional way – i.e. a "race against the machines" – DALL-E is a great example of why that framing is reductive. How humanity and AI will both evolve is a hugely important and complex subject that I'll explore in more detail in future writing, but for now, I'll just say... See more
meryl streep's description of her process – "total immersion into possibility... infinitely interesting... there's no bottom to it... a lot of it just great, deep, belief"