💬 Quotes
🔗 Keeping the Light On - Doc Searls - do read.
There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.
💬 Keisei Tagami
.. and as I have said myself
death defines life.
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.
💬 Henry Kissinger
… via John Naughton
I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.
These are my lumpy bits – i/o: the inside has a new way out and o\i: the outside has a new way in.
We are not, and have never been, the exclusively self-determining, independent beings that have been given the run of the world. We are something else, a part of nature, a part of everything and feeling a connection, shaking our booty and giving and receiving some love can help us find our place - and put a big smile on our faces.
💬 Peter Gabriel
🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist?
Transformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe.
💬 Don Marti
🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG
Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us.
💬 John Gruber
It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones.
Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.
😂😂😂
My sense of the “right” way to handle this puzzle is to think of it as a network and use some powerful result from graph theory to solve it in an instant. But since the only thing I know about graph theory is that it exists, I went about it differently.
💬 Dr. Drang
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.
Previous Years
📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)
📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a New Year’s Day
💬 Rage Against The Machine
Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don’t even do today as workers: they will be used on the software projects that wouldn’t have been started, the contracts that wouldn’t have been reviewed, the medical research that wouldn’t have been discovered, and the marketing campaign that wouldn’t have been launched otherwise.
💬 Aaron Levie
via 🔗Simon Willison
Anyone who honestly wants to be young again has never lived, only imagined, only masqueraded.
💬 Ursula K. Le Guin
We should all do the right thing by and for our children ...
Protecting children’s online safety should be a top priority for everyone, as they are vulnerable to harmful influences from companies prioritizing profit over safeguarding. Sharing the ‘Words of Jax’,