Tag: trends
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The broader lesson extends beyond music. When outcomes worsen, we are tempted to regulate expression rather than confront underlying issues. School bans, censorship campaigns and moral lectures target what is easiest to see. But culture, more often than not, is a lagging indicator—not a driver—of economic life. If hip hop had never existed, the trajectory…
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It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything. California tech people can be really exhausting. Read the rest from Dan Wang for a very accurate write-up of why. 🔗 Dan Wang’s 2025…
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Related to your interests for Sunday
“Moody’s Analytics recently estimated that the top 10 percent of households were responsible for nearly half of all spending.” K-shaped. AI is used a lot for making software. Not sure about the survey demographics and methodology. Deciding on Obama v. McCain in 2008. Keep track of things you’ve done each day so you realize you’re…
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About 80% of the time, most made-up percentages of something studies have abandoned “80%” as the default majority number and are now using “70%” about 30% of the time.
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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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Americans move less than they used to/stay where the grew-up
Figure 1 shows a steady decline in interstate migration rates between 1996 and 2024 across all age groups. The figure also shows that moving rates are consistently higher for younger adults (25-34) than for older age groups and that mobility has declined within every age group. Thus, the overall decline in the mobility rate (age…
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”Tech is a pop culture.”
”Tech is a pop culture. Very few of the decisions made in the industry are made rationally or empirically. Studies and tests are used to justify the emotional decisions of the executive or management class. Infrastructure and stack decisions are made hedonistically – “cool” tech that makes the engineers and devs feel good about themselves…
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What the kids are saying
🔗 Study Reveals America’s Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise
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🤖 ChatGPT’s Love Affair with the Em Dash Sparks a Punctuation Panic
This is a summary from ChatGPT. Source summarized: With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition AI’s persistent use of the em dash has triggered a minor cultural freakout online, with many insisting it’s a “tell” that instantly reveals machine-generated text. Yet the dash is a centuries-old punctuation mark beloved by novelists and grammarians,…
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A consumption basket approach to measuring AI progress – “In contrast, actual human users typically deploy AIs to help them with relatively easy problems. They use AIs for (standard) legal advice, to help with the homework, to plot travel plans, to help modify a recipe, as a therapist or advisor, and so on. You could…
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Old Media Finally Wakes Up from a Coma – “Hey, guys”-style getting more mainstream. // Also, long form podcasts.
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Links and fun finds for February 2rd, 2025
Hello. How are you today? Captured by Ken Shirriff. Relative to your interests D&D: Some Kind Of Monster (Type) – This is a great pondering of monster types and their, like, existential essence. Lots to think on! // “The convoluted agreements common to many Fey are an aspect of their adherence to a particular vector…
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The return of skinny jeans? Men’s catwalks suggest wide-legged trousers are out and calf-huggers back in – Looks like a dodged a bullet on this one by wearing my old Gen-X pants despite the trends.
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That which never moved can never move back
The Cloud Equilibrium As you know, I enjoy the impossible chase to track down the elusive chart that shows how many workloads are running on private cloud1 versus public cloud. I last rounded up my findings in July, 2024. Of particular interest is the IDC CloudPulse report. I don’t have access to the most recent…
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How DevOps can come back from the dead, and why it must
The DevOps community is running on fumes and at the lowest point in mindshare and interest that it’s ever been at. This is stupid. The practices, tools, and mindset of DevOps are vital to how most organization run their software1 and DevOps has improved the way the software we use everyday is built and run,…
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There never was a rug – the social norms of open source staying open have changed
From Iceland. This week’s Software Defined Talk podcast We talk about the open source “rug pull” du jour in this week’s Software Defined Podcast: “This week, we discuss CockroachDB’s relicensing, the ongoing debate about remote work, and platform engineering. Plus, some thoughts on the use of speakerphones in public.” We both steer us towards a…
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The beauty of concrete – “ornament survives in the mass-market housebuilder market because the people buying new-build homes at this price point are less likely to be influenced by elite fashions than are the committees that commission government buildings or corporate headquarters. The explanation, in other words, is a matter of what people demand, not…
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How Much Revenue Must a Company Generate to IPO? – “Before 2018, only one company IPOed with more than $200m in revenue. In fact, the median revenue at IPO at $90m. Today, the median revenue at IPO is $189m (corrected for inflation), more than double.”
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Skinny jeans hot for AW24? Two writers argue over the demonised drainpipes – Some real passion about skinny-jeans here: ’at least with skinny jeans there’s no chance of soaking up every puddle you slosh through on a rainy day, until the water reaches your knee and you develop a very real chance of developing trench…
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Lots of Marvel super heroes this halloween, but a little more clowns than the last two years
Not much today. Halloween Clown Tailwinds From Chris Rogers at S&P Global Market Intelligence. “Among outfits, the best performers have been those linked to clowns, which increased by 43% year over year.” Somewhere, there’s a financial analyst who really cares about the increase in clown costumes this Halloween. Wastebook “So I quit my job as…
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