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NOBODY TALKS ABOUT - WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT - YOU DON’T REALIZE - HERE’S EVERYTHING YOU NEED - I CAN’T BELIEVE NO ONE TOLD ME - DON’T GET ME WRONG BUT

Do you believe we are losing cool? VANHÉE: We’re definitely losing an edge. Because everything is super visible, you have to justify and explain every

Adam Mastoirnni in response to the question: How do we become more optimistic and hopeful? I think the root of the problem is the globalization of all

1. Embracing ‘Anti-Scale’According to John their maximum audience is capped at 200,000.“If we have 10 million subscribers we've pivoted. Something's g

Communities are not resources to be optimised and they're not user bases to be migrated. They're the accumulated residue of people choosing, over and

TK: It was a great gala. Numbers-wise, how many email subscribers do you have now?JD: It’s 15,000 on the daily email, and monthly visits are probably

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For a while, I would often use AI as a kind of second set of eyes on day-to-day emails: I’d paste in a draft and ask, “Does this all sound right?” or,

“Do you or your friends have professors whose approach to AI in the classroom felt ‘right’? What was the approach?” - AnonLarge language models are cl

Sometimes, You Have To Say No To Your Friends To Say Yes To Your Work When asked, Lin-Manuel Miranda says Wait For It is the best song he’s ever writ

when making things becomes frictionless, starting stops meaning anything.

“At both Viaweb and YC, every minute I spent thinking about competitors was, in retrospect, a minute wasted... It's exceptionally rare for startups to

re: many genAI apps can do 'anything and everything' i used to tell this funny story to a lot of consumer founders: when one-shot TTS first started

A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.Why are they in such a hurry

Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like the Yellow Pages and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommenda

The Internet consumes enormous quantities of time without generating proportionate quantities of memory

Got asked for a braindump on the future of search/CLI/helping computers become more intelligent and humane... Ready? Here we go... (1/n)

In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia

generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how

The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way

What education does is provide a curated experience to help you learn. Done well, it sifts through the myriad resources, possible paths, and common e

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I spent seven years building a kid/ed-tech product and one critical thing I learned about the industry is this... No matter what they signal, most pa

“Life is always winking at us, calling our attention to the beauty hidden in plain sight. Why do we so often miss what’s right in front of us, lost in

The writer Ted Chiang was once asked in an interview if he ever considered publishing more frequently. Chiang, one of the greatest living fiction writ

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“Hosting, then, is the art of creating a field in which people can risk thinking together. It is the art of allowing what is fragmented, defended, pas

Simone Weil’s greatest insight was that attention is the foundation of morality and that letting your attention span degrade is the first step on the

Because I don't want to be a monk. I don't want to go live in a cabin. I'm not gonna swear off Netflix or podcasts or whatever. I like this stuff. It'

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quality has no discernable metric -miter

They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy. But in t

People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get aut

I just fixed my dishwasher with the help of ChatGPT. A trivial task. I had been about to order a new one. So this software has increased the country's

Many of us, in pursuit of the spiritual, become woefully neglectful of the physical.

According to him, the word “natural” has become a “sort of a secular stand-in for a generalized understanding of goodness, which in religion you’d cal