💬 Quotes
🔗 The cognitive impact of coding agents
That was 48 seconds. Our full conversation lasted 1 hour 40 minutes.
💬 Simon Willison
When I was a lad - this 1969 image had the music press agog at just how much equiment the band Pink Floyd had to go on tour with.
Hold My Beer
💬 Rammstein
🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
You’re absolutely right—I reverted to the quick-fix approach and missed the bigger strategy.
💬 Claude
.. is a recurring message these days - I need to work out why it doesn’t keep this information in ‘mind’. Annoying.
🔗 The end of the content shortage
The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it.
💬 Seth Godin
Here’s willing it to be so.
In his State of the Union address in January, Donald Trump identified a problem for America: “We’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it.” To give him his due, he seems to have found a solution.
💬 Andrew Palmer, Executive Editor - The Economist
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
💬 Ralph Waldo Emerson
🔗 The Return of Travis Kalanick: Fact & Fluff!
I’ll be damned if I am not interested. And I’ll be damned if I don’t want to see what he does next. That doesn’t mean I need to gulp his MBA-speak as wisdom. I will call the game as I see it being played.
💬 Om
💬 Lettres Décoratives: Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters and Vibrant Letterforms
I have gotten through the last 15 years or so not even coming across the expression ‘Fin de Siècle’ - much less using it in anger - and now three times in less than a week!
I blame @mitchwagner
💬 The Essence of a Machine - Om
I can’t remember when I used the words “cute” and “want” about a computer in the same breath.
💬 Experian and TransUnion Are Leaving More Mistakes on Credit Reports
I will never understand how these companies became so powerful. Yes - I have read explanations. No - I don’t understand how they were allowed.
🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich
To explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
In amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includes the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.