Shachaf Rodberg

AI-powered document editors, then, among other tools, use all that training data to make it even easier to write outcome-oriented garbage that moves us further and further from the truth of ourselves and each other as beautiful, complex, experiencing beings.

95% of content consumption is procrastination disguised as productivity.

Most people waste hundreds of hours consuming “just-in-case” content because it’s “interesting.”

Instead, you should consume "just-in-time" to answer a question keeping you from moving forward.

In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it. In an eight-month study of how generative AI changed work habits at a U.S.-based technology company with about 200 employees, we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more... See more

Human brains are wired such that we get rewarded for attending to surprisal. If we turn our attention toward things that surprise us we get excited —and our model of the world changes. It grows more complex.

ze frank, first and best vlogger, had a concept called "brain crack"

brain crack is that amazing idea you've been holding onto that you'll get to Later so you can Do It Right

it addicts you bc the more you build it up the less likely you'll ever do it

poast your brain crack!