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- Accomplishments just feel like inevitabilities that you have to work really hard for.
Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
from A list of 25 Principles of Adult Behavior by John Perry Barlow
- Your photos don’t develop until the next morning, so you’re forced to live in the moment — snap and forget. There’s no pressure to get the perfect shot. It’s a focus on authenticity over appearance.
from Attention Required! | Cloudflare by Justin Potts
- Through the Exit to Community project, Schneider is exploring ways to help startups transition from investor-owned to community ownership, which could include users, customers, workers or some combination of all stakeholders.
from Instead of IPOs and acquisitions, exiting to community is one alternative by Techcrunch
- Many newsletter creators offer services outside the scope of their newsletter. These are “digital goods”: training modules, white papers, access to private communities, etc. As lifelong learning becomes an absolute necessity to remain competitive in a constantly changing world, these digital goods could also be monetized with brands by tapping into... See more
from Monetizing newsletters: when creators strive with ideas by Marie Dolle
One obvious step toward intentional language models would be for the creators of these models to be more intentional about what goes into their training data. For example, (Du et al., 2022) have demonstrated that a language model trained on a smaller dataset of curated data outperforms on standard benchmarks a model trained on a larger but less cur
... See morefrom Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
- “Content is king” became a cliche because it was the hallmark of the media business. Without great content, not much else matters. But the platform and scale era scrambled that. Distribution became the gamechanger. Publications had BuzzFeed envy. By the same token, media’s indirect business models -- content in some publishing organizations can be ... See more
from Audience-first publishing by Brian Morrissey
- If we let everyone decide for themselves how they were best fit to benefit humanity, with no restrictions at all, how could they possibly end up with a distribution of labor more inefficient than the one we already have? This is a powerful argument for human freedom.
from Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
- When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the ... See more
from Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight