Re: People Are Not Friction 🔗
Dave Rupert puts words to the feeling in the air: the unspoken promise of AI is that you can automate away all the tasks and people who stand in your [...]
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You Might Debate It — If You Could See It 🔗
Imagine I’m the design leader at your org and I present the following guidelines I want us to adopt as a team for doing design work: Typography: Use e [...]
Food, Software, and Trade-offs 🔗
Greg Knauss has my attention with a food analogy in his article “Lose Myself”: A Ding Dong from a factory is not the same thing as a gâteau au chocola [...]
Two of My Favorite Things Together at Last: Pies and Subdomains 🔗
I like pie. And I’ve learned that if I want a pie done right, I gotta do it myself. Somewhere along my pilgrimage to pie perfection, I began taking a [...]
w0rdz aRe 1mpoRtAnt 🔗
The other day I was looking at the team billing section of an AI product. They had a widget labeled “Usage leaderboard”. For whatever reason, that phr [...]
Book Notes: “Blood In The Machine” by Brian Merchant 🔗
For my future self, these are a few of my notes from this book. A take from one historian on the Luddite movement: If workmen disliked certain machine [...]
Computers and the Internet: A Two-Edged Sword 🔗
Dave Rupert articulated something in “Priority of idle hands” that’s been growing in my subconscious for years: I had a small, intrusive realization t [...]
Making Icon Sets Easy With Web Origami 🔗
Over the years, I’ve used different icon sets on my blog. Right now I use Heroicons. The recommended way to use them is to copy/paste the source from [...]
How AI Labs Proliferate 🔗
SITUATION: there are 14 competing AI labs. “We can’t trust any of these people with super-intelligence. We need to build it ourselves to ensure it’s d [...]
A Few Rambling Observations on Care 🔗
In this new AI world, “taste” is the thing everyone claims is the new supreme skill. But I think “care” is the one I want to see in the products I buy [...]