Sidhartha Jha
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Sidhartha Jha
At Microsoft’s main office, in Redmond, a suburb of Seattle, I saw a demo of an early version of the company’s operating software for the information-highway machine, in which the user points at the TV screen with a remote control, clicks onto icons, and selects from menus. I heard a lot about “intelligent agents,” which will at first be animated... See more
E-Mailing with Bill Gates
In 1994!
By making cities difficult and increasingly more expensive to live in, young people seeking to have families will simply leave. We observe this in Paris, where droves of people are leaving every year for some time now. If you can’t drive a car, then you can hardly afford to sustain a large family.
This is often encouraged by populists harboring... See more
This is often encouraged by populists harboring... See more
The greatly exaggerated report of the death of Europe
What if there was a “perfect” shop for everything?
geshtalt (Yiddish) — the full context in which a thing exists
You can’t judge her by one mistake; you have to look at the whole geshtalt of who she is.
The film works not because of any single scene, but because of the geshtalt — the feeling of the whole thing.
Insert requisite DFW from ... 1996:
Or, I don’t know about you, I’m gonna have to leave the planet. ‘Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not... See more
Craig Mod • [RIDGELINE] Full Days and the Long Walk
In short, seven years ago, the US launched a supply-chain war against China. China’s response was to de-Westernize its supply chain, at great cost to its investor base, to economic growth, to domestic consumption and even to its birth rate
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The CEO of a hyperscaler can issue a decree to work around CUDA; an app developer can decide that Google’s cost structure is worth the pain of changing the model undergirding their app; changing the habits of 800 million+ people who use ChatGPT every week, however, is a battle that can only be fought individual by individual. This is ChatGPT’s true... See more
Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI (Stratechery Article 12-1-2025)
Just B2B vs. B2C?
There’s a ruthlessness that’s taken hold across all strata of cultural making (and life itself). Everything turned into a casino, “traps” galore. Billions as the only goal. Achieved celebrity? Start a coffee brand (or gin brand, or tequila brand; I’m shocked nobody is selling their own cigarettes). Leave “nothing on the table.” Epicurean... See more