once you understand that we never outgrew wanting to watch gladiatorial battles and throw tomatoes at people in the stocks and eat junk food at public hangings the internet makes a lot more sense

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless

The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet

I have never wanted anything more in my life.

https://www.hackster.io/news/this-diy-framework-laptop-goes-full-1980s-1010472fdb0e

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

every "life-changing" productivity system is just:

- write things down
- look at what you wrote
- do those things

we've reinvented the todo list 47 times

Looking good guys

No, You Shouldn't Let Your Kids Use ChatGPT. A thread.

1/16

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

The easiest person to fool with motivated reasoning is yourself. This is why smart people believe stupider things with greater conviction—they're better at constructing plausible justifications.

Google is what happens when a system forgets why it was built but remembers how.

Popularity kills good ideas.

The moment a thought gets traction, it gets watered down.

The rough edges get sanded off.

The disclaimers creep in.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-small-networks-build-stronger-ideas/

AI doesn’t need to become self-aware to be dangerous. It just needs to be plugged into HR, healthcare, and credit scoring systems with no appeal process.

Everything is on fire.

The arsonist is grinning on live TV.

And the world is laughing.

But make no mistake: they're not laughing with you.
https://www.theindex.media/lol/