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I believe Kelly's prediction of an internet of indie creators, now 12 years old, is just hitting its stride. It's one of those cases where enough positive forces combine simultaneously to create something extraordinary:

TikTok is a fascinating mix of both gift culture and flex culture. There’s certainly an element of gift culture to TikTok: people dedicate so much of their time to making content for others’ pleasure, and your fame increases by how much of that entertainment you’ve successfully ‘given away’. But at the end of the day, it’s also about being beautifu... See more

It helps me because every day there are contractions of frustration, of anxiety, of wanting to yell, of giving in to yelling, of wanting to run away, of being brave when my son is scared even though I am scared, of comforting him even though I feel I have nothing to give. Drinking has been my ongoing epidural because being a mother involves, in so

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The machines are learning to think. Soon they will think better than us, faster than us, without fatigue. They will fill our spreadsheets, respond to our emails, and complete our to-do lists. The work that defined human life for generations is ending. By the year 2030, the machines will be doing 90% of the work in 90% of the jobs. And we’re left wi... See more