Tag: culture
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“If the people building the tech are terrified of it, maybe we should listen to their fears rather than their sales pitch.” Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition
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The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual links and wastebook as well. This makes it more of a digest than a stand-alone item. As you can tell by the volume of blog posts below, I like blogging though and I’m glad I’m doing I…
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Every generation thinks their decade had “real” culture and everything after is fake. The 90s kids say this about the 80s. The 2010s kids will say it about the 2000s. The pattern is so reliable it’s boring. Culture isn’t actually “worse” now. You just got older and stopped being the target demo. JA Westenberg https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115512539998061826
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“trust fund brunchlords” Here
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The failures of ambition that keep the world running
“It’s also a part of a broader inversion of values. In America, we now treat the jobs that keep the world running like teachers, sanitation workers, nurses, delivery drivers as failures of ambition, while the real prestige lies in moving capital or manufacturing hype.” // Yowch. 🔗 How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy
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“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.
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Tuesday Links and Wastebook
Relative to your interests I’m posting a lot more regularly on my weblog , most of the links below, and some content that doesn’t show up in the newsletter. Apologies if you’re living with duplicates. “CMDB” Is Dead — Long Live The IT Management Graph – What’s wrong with the CMDB concept, especially how it’s…
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Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse.” From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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What is it about “founder” style, content, and intellectual aesthetics that makes me cringe so much? Is there something there, or is just that the stuff they post on Twitter and LinkedIn is over-dialed in engagement?
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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Clickable proverbs.
Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Defining slop
“It is generic and all the same personalized, the Big Mac without the onions.” defining slop
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🤖 AI Answers Barely Shift Across Languages, Study Suggests
Even when asked in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish, modern AI chatbots like ChatGPT deliver answers aligned with secular, center-left, Western liberal values. Language introduces minor stylistic variations, but the core worldview remains strikingly consistent. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Do AIs think differently in different languages? Key Points AI responses remain largely uniform across…
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tech-culture sayings
“Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry observations on unavoidable realities.” // A round-up of all those laws and bromides tech world people use. 🔗 Hacker Laws
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Low quality content production is a higher quality of life
‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, every song, every video also has downsides. It defining the “norm”, the expectation we have from one another has two main issues that keep irritating me.’ 🔗 The Professionalism Trap
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“How many $18 glasses of natural wine can you drink while friends relay the latest upsetting news they gleaned from X, Instagram, and TikTok…” the new lost generation
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🤖 The New Lost Generation: Phone Addiction, Expats, and the AI Fork in the Road
Our modern addictions—especially to our phones—have quietly become the backbone of daily life, eroding memory, attention, and a sense of self. Against this backdrop, a wave of cultural withdrawal, from sobriety to expat living, reflects a deep desire to reset before AI either liberates us or consumes us. AI generated summary of: The new Lost…
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Occupying TikTok with love – “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this ‘200 views jail’ – have a niche, have a hook, look at trends – but maybe instead we could just think ‘how beautiful, TikTok are going to share my thing with 200 random people scattered around the…
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🤖 San Francisco’s AI Gold Rush: High-Agency Hustlers vs. NPCs in the Great Lock-In
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: are you high-agency or an NPC? San Francisco is in the throes of an AI-fueled renaissance, buzzing with wealth, 22-year-old techno-prophets, and absurd $100M salaries, even as anxiety simmers beneath the surface. In a city caught between triumph and precarity, the culture has splintered into “high-agency” hustlers…
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