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They say that people on their deathbeds never wish they had spent more time working. I certainly believe that no one wishes, in the moments before death, that they had spent more time at the office earning a wage. But when I think about what would be weighing on my mind if I knew today were my last day to live, I suspect I’ll mostly wonder whether... See more

phirephoenix.com • labour of love

If all human activity can be measured on a spectrum of authenticity and performativity, what metrics can we use to weed out the genuine from the fabricated? Will we just know ? And why do we care? If our culture of liberal individualism demands anything of us, it is to be, above all else, authentic. To be seen as a poseur or a phony—a person who... See more

The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading”

From Will Manidis:

The current generation of LLM-driven insanity — the billion dollar frameworks, the orchestration layers, the agentic workflows— is the most sophisticated tool-shaped object ever created.

You can build an agent that reads your email, summarizes the contents, drafts a response, checks the response against a style guide, routes the

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either

Gideon Lewis-Kraus newyorker.com

“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”

― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

i wish i could do more - i wish i had a thousand hands and a thousand eyes and a thousand years and army of angels and a thousand stars that lit the sky so bright that the night would never come and that our sleepless dreams would fill this world

David x.com

“Either everyone feels like this a little bit and they're just not talking about it or I am completely alone. Which isn't fucking funny.”

— Fleabag

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "grave discussion of public events we must feel sad about". we've totally lost the sense of play. hold your beliefs loosely, laugh.

Will Manidis x.com