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Age of Adaptable Software
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
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Finally someone explained why "10-minute book summaries" never worked for me
> When you read a deep book on a big subject, the learning comes from your brain forming new connections as it spends extended time marinating in the material.
Skip all this work and no new connections are built.
We're Using AI Backwards—Here's How to Max Your Brain on AI (I call it Cognitive Choreography)
How to use AI for cognitive expansion instead of information compression—and why this shift will determine who thrives vs. survives in the age of AI (plus thinking in new ways is fun right?)
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DoorDash story-
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5yWbixaP6aSSSSwwZ0FPNk
Stanley Tang (DoorDash) - Scaling the Unscalable
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL) · Episode
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“Federating Ghost means publishers no longer have to choose between owning their work and reaching an audience..
Will it work? It's not clear yet.”
Ramping up for expansion
Ghost 6.0 is coming soon
activitypub.ghost.org
AI is out of the bottle, and there's no putting it back.
AI Changes Everything
From fear to optimism: why I am convinced AI is worth embracing.
lucumr.pocoo.org
Loom co-founder search for meaning
I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life
vinay.sh
AGI timelines are very lognormal. It's either this decade or bust.
Why I have slightly longer timelines than some of my guests
Continual learning is a huge bottleneck
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A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox
When writing in public, there is a common idea that you should make it accessible. This is a left over from mass media.
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
My Ai Skeptic Friends Are Nuts // via @simonw
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
I want something in between viral social media feeds like Twitter/Substack and my favorite discord or group chat.
social media is a boring, solved game.
it's still a great tool, don't get me wrong, and I love it. But it is SO DAMN boring, and I feel like everyone knows it.
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