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The system can be changed and normal is not permanent Find the smallest viable audience Pick your customers, pick your future Outdated maps might be worth less than no map at all Reliability is a s…

I get questions from marketers all the time about what to do as more and more of their work is eaten by AI. They see their clients happy with AI content, even if conversion rates and sales go way down. Why? The amount of cost-cutting involved is so massive, the

Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.

Design flexible forms in 60 seconds

[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…

From zero to published website using Bolt (no coding experience required)

Read the full transcript of the speech "Failures of Kindness" by George Saunders.

21 resources to bring out the storyteller in you

Semantic Versioning spec and website

Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.

How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.

Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.

Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.

I built a custom energy dashboard for my house using this beautiful, 2-bit colour, e-paper display. Hardware, software, data and design.

Merlin Mann attempts to capture the best advice he's heard and learned from. - merlinmann/wisdom

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

A guide to basic digital hygiene.

Lessons learned from stress testing dozens of seed phrase backup devices.

He’s the greatest marathoner in history, a national hero in Kenya, and an icon for runners around the world. But despite his fame and wealth, Eliud Kipchoge chooses to live the most basic lifestyle. Cathal Dennehy travels to the highlands of Kenya for an inside look at his training camp and to meet a champion with a quiet, complex personality

All the mental energy you waste complaining would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.

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This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. ![A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THEREFORE A …

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential suites with a butler. I’ve … Continue reading →