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I suspect AI's greatest impact will be on identity. For most of human history, becoming a person required a certain amount of wandering. You moved th

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we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with

You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid

But there’s a difference between collecting and curating.With collecting, building the collection itself is often the end goal. Not so with curating.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. – Simone Weil In 1989, when I was selected as the ne

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle. The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.

the new bottleneck is no longer doing the work it’s reviewing the work

What’s my added value? Not much. I just happen to have access to context that it doesn’t. I’m a gatekeeper, and that won’t last.

Now we go to the gym or for long strolls or hikes just for the fun of it. We didn’t lose our ability to walk; we gained the freedom to choose when and

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

…a creator is someone with a distribution mind. They're thinking about what do I make that's going to reach the most amount of people? They're an inde

If you’re going to take a thought experiment seriously, you have to be willing to follow the implications, even if they lead in an uncomfortable direc

these days, if you can’t see the noose of a politically charged security apparatus wrapping around previously-abundant artificial intelligence, I’m no

The psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist identified precisely this pattern in patients with right hemisphere brain damage. They remain art

I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th

Not giving a fuck if you look cringe is a superpower for the great online game. Like Peter Parker getting bit by a spider, I had my superhero moment w

When you’re willing to look cringe, a whole world of opportunity opens up. You realize you can’t please everyone so you stop trying. You just focus on

The better AI gets at doing our work for us, the more we outsource our thinking to it. Thus, as we make machines more humanlike, they make us more mac

“Instead of machines trying to convince humans that they are people, machines now hope to convince humans that they are really computers. CAPTCHAs [.

If you’re posting on social media or any platform with an algorithm, the real question is: do you work for the algorithm or are you committed to worki

When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

Nobody talks enough about what the passive income movement did to the content quality of the entire internet. If you've tried to google "best [anythin

I think that talking about agency and introspection separately is misguided. People who emphasize how to get things done, and move faster, and reach h

When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something

Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he ar

There’s this funny balance where some writers get way too purist about it and they’re like, I don’t want to have to package my work up for the masses

Let me assure you, as someone who has been publishing books for sixteen years, that no matter how much you think you’ve talked about your book, no mat

Spoiler Alert: no one f**king wants a “Lavender Latte”. I don’t care how much alliteration there is in the name. Can we focus on getting a consistent