A living collection of notes, ideas, and reflections from Doug Belshaw.
I'm not sure that pejorative terms such as AI 'slop' and AI 'psychosis' are helpful. Similarly, neither is 'cognitive surrender'. What's interesting is how similar or different over-reliance on a particular tool or workflow is for a particular individual. In that way, I think AI use can and should be considered in the same realm as 'addictions' to things like betting and algorithmic timelines.
…In a recent note, I included a graphic which mentioned how AuDHD-ers might have perfect pattern recognition but have terrible working memory. I followed that up with another note which discussed a system I used to use of basically "writing everything down in a searchable way".
…On Wednesday, I caught up with my good friend and collaborator Laura Hilliger. She's currently on sabbatical, but with someone as galaxy brain as Laura, that just means directing her talents and attention to something that isn't client work.
…Back in 2024, Rabbit Inc. sold the R1 as an AI companion: a charming little orange square, designed with Teenage Engineering, that was meant to replace your phone apps with a big red button and a cloud service. Underneath the marketing, it was always a locked-down Android device running a Flutter app. This thing has GPS and even a SIM card slot!
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I like the idea of this:
Microblogging for an audience of one. The composer, the timeline, the archive — every reflex of the feed, with nobody on the other end. The posts that should have been diary entries finally have somewhere to go.
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Definitely concurring with this Warren Ellis post from a few days ago:
My problem, apparently, is that I’m interested in too many things. In fact, someone made a point of writing to my office a few weeks ago specifically to tell me that my interests aren’t interesting.
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This conversation between Derek Thompson and philosopher Agnes Callard is well worth reading in its entirety. Callard talks about the "uni-context" something which we all have felt as a kind of "context collapse" but haven't really had a more universal name for.
…Yesterday, I had my third coaching session with Annalise Lewis of Manifesto. My write-up of the second session with her contains links to the workshop where I first experienced her approach and an overview of my first session.
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