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A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, by Jeremy Stern for Colossus: I note that Musk is not particularly good at speaking in public, but that he is fully himself, which makes him free in a way Zuckerberg is not.

Please pay a visit to the blogroll, recently added, never announced.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Our technology is increasingly treating the territory between the query and the answer as dead space to be eliminated, when that territory is where most of the learning actually happens.

I think Apple keynotes have turned cringe.

This piece by Bright Simons describes an LLM as a model of human social reasoning at a given point in time.

A counterpoint to the idea that AI is better than you at generating ideas — something I’ve been hearing at work and reading here and there.

Sam Henri Gold: Nobody starts in the right place.

Paul Ford: What if all of that immense bureaucracy, the endless processes, the mind-boggling range of costs that you need to make the computer compute, just goes poof?

I miss the little light that used to indicate the Mac was sleeping: The animation was designed to mimic human breathing at 12 breaths per minute, and feel comforting and soothing.

People are behaving exactly as the platforms reward, writes Om Malik: Authority used to be the organizing principle of information, and thus the media.

John Hwang: For forty years, Excel was the undisputed king of general-purpose knowledge work.

I find it funny that AIs have inherited this hallucination from us.

Jeff Veen: This is the next step in responsive design and the blueprints are lurking all around us.

John Kennedy: When an article says “some scientists think” then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth.

I really like this framing by Jason Fried, on how to balance features.

Got around to adding search to this blog.