Yang Zhou

Now that we have abstracted technique away from the artistic process, can we build interfaces between the creators of ideas and the machines of technique in a way that allows the creators to “make it new”? That’s what we really want from creativity: something that didn’t exist and couldn’t have existed, before.

Can artificial intelligence help us to be creative? That’s the important question, and it’s a question about user interfaces, not about who has the biggest model.

Previous analysis articles attributed the value of NFT PFP to a sense of show off or social identity. The latter is inaccurate. Social identity and cultural circle identity are just the result of PFP-type NFTs having value, not the reason for it. The real reason is that NFTs have unearthed the undiscovered residual value of Web2 social relationship... See more

The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... See more

If you ask Perttu Ojansuu, the answer is an intranet, or a company-specific, digital portal that centralizes much of a businesses’ software and documentation in one place. Ojansuu recognizes his bias — he co-founded Happeo, a startup developing intranet software to connect employees with company tools. But Ojansuu says that his view was shaped by h... See more

the success of Bayc and Azuki is traceable - clear image positioning, high-quality art production, and finely operated community culture and so on. Such kind of analysis is too much, here not to repeat.