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In his thread about the test, Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour said he hopes Communities will make people feel more comfortable tweeting. “Tweets you post in Communities are ‘narrow-casted’ to only the people in that Community,” he said. “They're still public tweets, but they aren't amplified to all of your followers and they don't show up on ... See more

As we emerge from the crisis, we will see the drastic and rapid reduction of friction, stigma, and cost of mental health care services.

Smaller, pickup-only grocery stores could offer a few advantages, particularly in metropolitan areas. On the business side, they would reduce two of the biggest cost centers: headcount and footprint. Less expensive sub-street level space could be leveraged for storage, in addition to facilities outside a city. Customers could place orders ahead of ... See more

Autonomy, as they see it, is different from independence. It’s not the rugged, go-it-alone, rely-on-nobody individualism of the American cowboy. It means acting with choice - which means we can be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others. And while the idea of independence has national and political reverberations, autonomy appears to... See more

When there's a new product that simultaneously captures lots of attention and ingests lots of data, it's solved the two key problems ad platforms need to solve: how to get attention, and how to direct it to the right commercial message. There are, of course, plenty of other monetizable features of large language models; they're great for searching

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Substack sits on top of a trend that’s very dear to me: the democratization of monetized information. In simple terms, writers can earn money by sharing valuable information without the dependency on a publisher or newspaper. That’s not just better for creators but also for consumers because they can have a direct relationship with each other.

Can I imagine living without this technology? Why, or why not?