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I also worry that glamorizing screens as our fix-all solution could hurt the kids who need physical support for accountability and stability. Schools don’t just exist to teach. They are an emotional, physical and mental haven for kids who don’t have good home situations. Adding a screen and calling it a day puts these kids at an even greater risk.

We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

I’m starting with a simple-sounding question: What is AGI?

The leading labs have all informally named building AGI as their explicit goal, yet there’s surprisingly little consensus on what it means. News articles do this hand-wavey trick where they spell out “artificial general intelligence,” then wedge a definition like “AI better than humans at co... See more

3. Media needs subscriber governance: Subscriptions are mostly pitched as giving access to content. You pay so you can get around the annoying paywall. But the increased familiarity of paying for content will also lead to the desire to give more feedback on it. Substacks have comment sections and Discords where a sole proprietor has to answer to fa... See more

I do things, I try things, I build things, I want to make progress, I want to make things better for me, my company, my family, my neighborhood, etc. But I’ve never set a goal. It’s just not how I approach things.

A goal is something that goes away when you hit it. Once you’ve reached it, it’s gone. You could always set another one, but I just don’t... See more

In a pre-television word, the name of a famous person would bring ideas to mind. But in post television world, it brings a face to mind. What do you think of when you hear Clinton, Nixon, Elvis, probably first their face.

What we need is social media made entirely for the purpose of revealing the truth. As the French investor Xavier Faure said: “We need a trust social network. Where we don’t signal what we like, but what we vouch for.”