There is a certain type of person who fetishises human creativity, which I see as a lowkey version of the great man theory of history. It's almost as if they've a) never heard of Brian Eno's idea of scenius, nor b) understood that "we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us".
…I love it when people share the accumulated wisdom of their life so far. Yes, it’s often very similar in content, but the way that it’s expressed matters. And also, the fact that these kinds of things are often similar shows that there’s truth at the centre.
…Ky Decker has written a really interesting post about quitting his tech job. Yes, the proximal cause is AI, but once you get past that, there some interesting points on productive friction, values, and burnout.
No matter how rapidly technology changes, I am coalescing around some core beliefs:
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