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Not Boring by Packy McCormick | Substack
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Strongly recommend.
Faggin designed the first commercial microprocessor — the Intel 4004 — and has spent the last decade+ studying and funding research into consciousness.
The more I read, the more I think the materialist paradigm is on its last legs. Bring back the magic. https://t.co/ZI5MvbbELo
By contrast, consumer software tools that enhance human agency, that serve us when we are most creative and intentional, are often built by hobbyists and used by a handful of nerds. If such a tool ever gets too successful one of the Marl-serving companies, flush with cash from advertising or growth-hungry venture capital, will acquire it and kill i... See more
Ivan Vendrov • The Tyranny of the Marginal User


If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.
stealing • Retrofuturism
Summarizing Kola 🔑’s idea from a conversation:
Our methods of critiquing software are shallow. We have reviews, reactions, tutorials, puff-pieces, and clout-chasers. It’s important to have independent, thorough, and cultural critique, and it should be distributed among those who are building the future (The Paolo Alto Review).
This isn’t about rev
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