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Hobbies & Hustles
Manuel Moreale thinking about the differences between hobbies and side projects: A hobby is something one does for themselves. This blog is a hobby. I write on it because I find it enjoyable and the primary user is …
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For What End
This post pulls on a similar thread to the one where I discussed posting slop. Both point to my ultimate frustration with social media: its addictive nature and the cultural impact it has on society, all for very little …
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Writers & Non-Writers
Seth Godin writing about the need to be clear in concise in your writing, even if you don’t consider yourself a writer: Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these …
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Opening Your Wallet
Matt Birchler is an expert on payments, so when he writes about them, you listen: I can’t see the future, and I don’t work directly in card issuance, but this is my very strong instinct. They want to win the payment …
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Who Pays For This?
Of all the questions I have around the new AI on the block, Friend, I must admit that this one is the least of my worries. Like the rabbit that went before it, this gadget promises to address problems that are of a …
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What Is An App?
Vidit Bhargave, developer of Look Up, writing about what is expected of a modern app: Not only is the iPhone app not the center of a user’s interaction on the phone. It’s increasingly becoming one of the many parts of an …
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Would macOS Touch Finally Stop The Moaning?
Matt Birchler, once again writing about macOS allowing touch interaction: I contend that pretty much the entire “I wish the iPad did more” narrative is built on a wide and undying desire for macOS to get touch input and …
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Is Anything Real In The Valley?
Matteo Wong writing another great summary of the data surrounding AI failure to return on investment: Jim Covello, Goldman Sachs’s head of global equity research, told me, “If we’re going to justify a trillion or more …
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Do Hard Things
Jarrod Blundy writing in You (And I) Can Do Hard Things Doing the hard thing isn’t always fun. It’s often not the thing you want to do. There may be many reasons for you not to do the hard thing. But there’s almost …
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Could Simplicity Be The Key?
Jared Henderson in a recent ParkNotes video on Commonplace Books (cleaned up by me): I think that people found it refreshing to just be like oh I could just do this in a notebook and there’s not like a system .. …
