Shachaf Rodberg

hi, thanks for stopping by. My name is Ali and I'm a filmmaker. I love to put together stories of all kinds that just make you feel something in one way or another.

But an unbounded information landscape is not an unalloyed good. Because social media does not favor accuracy or balance or diversity. It favors clicks. The more engaging and enraging the content, the more clicks it receives.

The “near me” version of queries became the dominant version about 10 years ago.

So the affordances of the search results changes our behavior.

It’s fun to imagine whole new kinds of search queries / questions that you simply wouldn’t type into Google because it wouldn’t make sense. Things like:

• Why am I feeling anxious today?


• What should I work on

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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 how to use our physical capabilities. And so it will be with AI. We won’t lose our minds, but rather gain the agency to direct our cognitive energies intentionally.

The more you ground your analysis in the founder’s personal history and intuition, the easier it is to get what you want approved.

All of this produced a self-reinforcing cycle. AI accelerated certain tasks, which raised expectations for speed; higher speed made workers more reliant on AI. Increased reliance widened the scope of what workers attempted, and a wider scope further expanded the quantity and density of work. Several participants noted that although they felt more... See more

. Many new forms of work will grow simply because another type of work became more efficient and eventually is constrained somewhere else in the system.

While the dumb web screams, the smart web whispers