In spite of it all I do love human obsessives, with all their charming inefficiencies. This made me want to work as hard as I can on something important to me. I’m going to spend the night reading poems. And a great reminder of the value of a good mentor
Sure. While we're tone policing can we put an end to the ad nauseam (unintentionally ironic) regurgitation of "if you couldn't be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it" please?
I agree that such repetition can be annoying, like anything that's repeated too often. But your GP comment crossed further into guidelines breakage than most of those do.
If meta’s marketing team had any self awareness about the state of the ‘brand’, they would know the absolute best thing they could do for probably the next year at least would be to de-emphasize and hide zuck as much as possible, shut their mouths, and try to fade into the background as a silent ‘parent company’. Then they could just let instagram be instagram and hope people forget its part of Meta at all, and if at any point they wanted to spin up or buy a new product, they would not publicize that it is owned by meta. Absolutely no one likes or trusts them. One of worst brands in recent memory at this point.
Like... give it back to the original founders? The company that was bought because Zuck said "they can hurt us"? Like not having a login wall on every page? Like being a site for photographers like it used to be? Like not having fucking Reels everywhere which they stole from TikTok?
That is largely because no one has bothered to build anything remotely close to IG in the last 5+ years besides maybe TikTok. And even then, TikTok is more of an apples and oranges comparison to IG in lots of ways.
Zuck is just yet-another CEO who insists on being visible/part of the "branding" despite irrefutable evidence of brand damage and general shitshow for marketing metrics.
"First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys." - this line always makes me settle back in my chair. 'Something Wicked This Way Comes', Ray Bradbury. It's mysterious and nostalgic and sets the tone for the book right away, like any good first line should.
yeah, I noticed this too and thought it was interesting. Scott has always been prone to a form of what i'd call 'excessive rationality' where his quest for things to be hyper-logical and follow a perfect 'if-then' structure ends up being self-limiting, needlessly rigid, unimaginative, and close minded in somewhat random ways.
i just had a little boy (a week ago!) but i feel very certain if i'd had a daughter instead i'd still feel all the same emotions i feel now. in fact, i'm having the opposite experience he's having - my son is the spitting image of my wife as a baby.
Yeah. I (male) have a daughter who is very much like me, to the point where my wife finds it hilarious when I get frustrated at her behaving in the same ways my wife gets frustrated at me for behaving.
I tend to steer clear of the largest herd in many aspects. Often unintentionally. Also I'm not a native speaker so I might be not as receptive to some of the things that offend others in AI generated content.
Maybe AI is sort of anti-trump, where it's viscerally unbearable for native speakers even if the content is good, opposite to trump speech that somehow seems viscerally appealing to native speakers even though the content is complete garbage.
why have a blog if you're going to just use AI for everything? at that point, just do twitter threads or something. that way you can tweet out whatever you prompted the model with. if you're not suited for long-form writing that's fine, just use a medium that favors short-form writing.
how bizarre to read this from the future. also, love your writing style.
it's funny that we all keep bumping up against this persistent confrontation with the ego because of AI. i like reading this because it reminds me, when i spiral down the long tunnel of 'who am i now that a robot does nearly all of my job', that i'm just next in line after millions of others who have had their sacred craft automated. to say nothing of the fact that we are all in the business of automating other people's careers away.
AI will bring about a lot of abject terror, but tbh i think it changing our relationships with meaning and greatness is the one thing we could probably turn into something good. if we come at this the right way, we have a chance to all become monk-like lol. we could learn to be content with a strictly personal meaning. that would be net good for society. relying on each other for validation has ruined so many things.
hard to be sympathetic here when the candidate experience has been such a mess in tech for years now. i appreciate that remotely and efficiently judging future success based on a resume is now basically a wash, that sucks. but no one seemed to treat it like an emergency that perfectly qualified candidates have been getting filtered out after tripping various invisible wires for years (due to ATS systems but also not having word-for-word experience across the board, or not having big enough logos on your resume, which in turn makes it harder to get bigger logos in the future, etc.) and that's to say nothing of the rampant ghost postings, which someone else mentioned here, which STILL happens all the time. it's cruelty.
