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Debugging Tech Journalism—Asterisk
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Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they been seduced by some other book club on the other side of town? Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!—but come on, I have a lot of free first chapters to get through. My Kindle is a hand-me-d
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Platforms like Substack have enabled the best journalists to leave their job, but it’s also put writers on a hamster wheel with a weekly publishing cadence, where they may be making less than they thought.
Richard Patey • Why Creators Should Choose Protocols Over Subscriptions
“A series of changes have gradually and steadily stripped the human touch and voice out of restaurants”
Pete Wells reflects on a decade as the NYT restaurant critic https://t.co/f20la2ui89
The disenshittified internet starts with loyal “user agents”
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The Best Smartphone on Earth - (Not Clickbait)
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I’m a lifer in it
Genuinely loves tech but also skeptical of it
Less about hitting milestones and more about belief in the team
We’re trading scale and speed for freedom.
The problem with gen AI is that it’s contextless by default. Give it my references, my taste, my point of view.
Build a company that
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