15
Oct
Passion & Analysis
From Inventing the Future, by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
If politics without passion leads to cold-hearted, bureaucratic technocracy, then
Notebook
This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
01
Oct
"Watchful negligence"
I read this in a New Yorker profile of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is credited with inventing the word
23
Jul
Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening
In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes,
So what is close reading? As my co-editor and
1 min read
18
Jul
Access to healthy communities
In this post on his Substack, Chris Arnade makes the following observation about men today.
If they don't
17
Jul
Curiosity, Judgment, Mia Khalifa, & Bella Freud
Speaking in an episode of Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud, Mia Khalifa says:
I think, as I’ve grime older,
1 min read
14
Jul
Self authorization
From this post by Wesley Verhoven
There’s this trap a lot of us fall into, especially early on. We
1 min read
24
Apr
Ai can be funny & creative, eh?
From WIRED’s Brian Barrett ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw
Here’
1 min read
14
Jan
Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear
A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT.
Had you told us back then, that the
14
Jan
AI & Abduction
Earlier, I posted about this earlier today, but here are some more really interesting observations from Peter Coy's
1 min read
18
Dec
AI & Kids
This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great.
Computer
1 min read