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evil”—but it seemed to have a blind spot regarding the consequences of its own technology on privacy and property rights.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Initially sold through the newsletter
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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
... See moreConsider the cascade of specialized productivity apps (not suites) over the years, like Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist, Trello, Clubhouse, Basecamp, and the list goes on. Many of these are stable businesses, but they all claim a small piece of a large pie (and one could argue, were not great VC investments from a multiples perspective). The ... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
Better design is warranted, but it is not enough if the goal is risk reduction. Risk reduction requires socialization, education, and enough agency to build experience. Moreover, if we think that people will still get hurt, we should be creating digital patrols who are there to pick people up when they are hurt.
danah boyd • Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
“To me, that was the secret—data,” he says. What the data was telling him was that if you had the right tools, it was possible to treat everything in the open web like a single document.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
