People do not realize that industries are MADE with communications

— Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)

- the boundaries between mediums will mostly disappear. - computation will be embedded in other mediums rather than as a stand alone thing. - the ability to sketch out rough ideas and progressively enhance them will be incredibly important. - AI will… — Silicon Jungle (@JungleSilicon)

If you really think a problem is serious, then take it seriously. Be empirical and tentative, as a scientist would, instead of dogmatic.— Paul Graham (@paulg) October 28, 2022

Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022

a great articulation for something I’ve struggled to verbalize.many great products are less about technology enabling something that wasn’t previously possible than they are about culturally normalizing a behavior@anuatluru calls this a good premisesee examples below. my… https://t.co/xBq0RqISQq pic.twitter.com/7ko4e8y3N8— Jackson Dahl (@jacksondahl) February 23, 2024

This is my current mental model of where software is heading.

I keep seeing people talk about the Meta Glasses & “the next iPhone moment” THE NEXT IPHONE MOMENT IS NOT IN THIS WAVE OF HARDWAREWe are returning to hardware multiplicity. Or what I call “INDIE HARDWARE” The iPhone represented a convergence momentNEXT IS AN EXPLOSION!!! pic.twitter.com/0FyJLcue8k— 🌀 (@HipCityReg) September 28, 2023

“It’s cool that they’re calling it a “spatial computer”, which is a significant break from the “tech first” way of calling it a “headset”. It’s not about what it is, but what you do with it: You can do all kinds of computing tasks with it, but in a new kind of spatial way.43/?”

“(digital) product design one of the most inward looking parts of the design industry it’s nuts. many won’t even bother look at other sectors of graphic design let alone games”

Douglas Adams, pithily summing up 90+% of commentary on ChatGPT: pic.twitter.com/DUYgsXCe0U— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) January 31, 2023

It’s surprising how useful screenshots have become, especially on mobile. The pixel layer is the lowest common denominator and ultimately will be the interoperable data layer, especially as AI gets better at operating on pixels.— Amjad Masad ⠕ (@amasad) January 26, 2023

Prompt engineering is on 🔥First, @alexandr_wang hires @goodside as the world's first Prompt EngineerThen, @chamath talks it up on @theallinpodNow @AnthropicAI is setting the market rate on prompt engineers: $250k - $335k + equity (!)Only basic coding ability needed. pic.twitter.com/lER5XbcIVO— swyx 🇸🇬 (@swyx) January 20, 2023

I think about how much of culture came from physical limitations. Serifs came from calligraphy. The Leslie effect and plate reverb came from physical devices.What limitations will generate the stylistic flourishes of the future? Diffusion models creating too many fingers?— Sho Kuwamoto (@skuwamoto@mastodon.social) (@skuwamoto) November 26, 2022

(2/5) Today, I got to publish what I see as the big picture around that story. 🖼️ It's about an entire movement quietly taking off in tech & VC circles of people who believe it is their DUTY to fill the earth with their genius children... to save humanity.https://t.co/fty0lhW6f9— Julia Black (@mjnblack) November 17, 2022

"They're coming for every second of your life" –@boburnham pic.twitter.com/RhkYrDZbxR— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) November 2, 2022

Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old…a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.— Daniel Eckler 👨‍🚀 (@daniel_eckler) September 20, 2022

one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps— Sega Protogenesis (@gravislizard) November 6, 2017

Thread about UIs getting in the way almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983— Sega Protogenesis (@gravislizard) November 6, 2017

People come to human artists for their perceived unique context, perspective, and argumentative critical insight. Which part of that can be replaced by an input/output machine https://t.co/4LaLU76m4y— 💽 (wagenmuzik) (@dirtybird0_o) August 14, 2022

This is more or less what my final project is about… Facebook killed the blog and it has killed the ownership of our digital archives with it https://t.co/HTcwRhho1u— Lara Mendonça (@laraisuncool) July 25, 2022

“Capitalism at work: twitter would be better off without Musk, but the twitter board has to pursue this owner.”