Currently reading
Books, articles, blogs and studies–anything I'm finding interesting
There's a lot going on in my industry at the moment. Reading what others are thinking and experiencing is a great way to both create and avoid panic. Mostly the latter.
- blog We Are Still the Web
perhaps we can still return to the beautiful independence of the early aughts
- blog Maybe it wasn’t the tech after all
Tech gets the headlines, org change gets the results
- study The Case Against Social Media is Stronger Than You Think
A tiny minority of online extremists are making our politics worse in every way
- blog We accidentally built the wrong internet
but there's finally a better way
- blog The machine in the garden
Substack is encroaching on what was a once a respectably literate walled garden.
- blog My AI Predictions for 2027
"We were hoping to get one super-genius, but we ended up with 10,000 morons stapled together."
- essay A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
Current models expect us to make up for their shortcomings
- blog Tyranny of Optionality
The absense of commitment makes satisfaction impossible
- blog God created men; Sam Altman made them equal
Pessimism is a luxury we can no longer afford
- blog The Hype is the Product
Not just for startups anymore
- novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
How incredibly lucky we are to be living in the modern era
- blog Why I'm Giving Up My Design Title
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new
- podcast Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
The human folly of fixation
- blog Content for fun vs. content for purpose
Utilitarian vs experiential content. Or: transactional vs enjoyment; head vs heart
- study New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text
Far from being "stochastic parrots"?
- blog The tech bros are making themselves sick
- blog Everyone is Crazy Now
Attention is no longer a bridge to power; it is the power
- blog The Perils of Audience Capture
and the man who ate himself
- blog AI is eating the internet
An exploration of the Internet to come
- series We Live Like Royalty and Don't Know It
We have debts, but they are the debts of kings
- blog LLM Daydreaming
Should we direct LLMs to daydream to provoke novel insights?
- blog The AI Replaces Services Myth
The ai market cap is much lower than VC's would have you believe
- story When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History
"In a day, a lot of the problems that a large percentage of researchers were working on — they just disappeared."
- blog Reflections on OpenAI
From an insider that launched Codex.
- blog I deleted my second brain
Maybe I don't need all these lists...
- blog The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end
Ads coming soon to a chatbot near you.
- blog Machines of Faithful Obedience
- novel Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
The insatiable appetite of an American Dream.
- blog AI's Wedge in Software
AI sucks left of code: discovery, long-term strategy, planning. For now at least.
- novel Spanish Fly by Will Ferguson
Con man coming-of-age story set in the great depression. The intricate descriptions of the cons has led to a lot of reflection on the times I've been had.
- blog I Think I'm Done Thinking About genAI For Now
- study How Not To Lose Your Job To AI
- blog The Copilot Delusion
- blog My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
- blog The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
