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The Truth Doesn’t Matter
Nick Hilton commenting on Steven Bartlet and posted to LinkedIn: Content being interesting and provocative is more valuable, to creators, than it being accurate or instructional. We’ve known for a long time, stupid …
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Beware The Hidden Middlemen
Within the first feewpages of reading Enshitification by Cory Doctorow (spoiler alert don’t waste your time, the book is literally a long rambling blog post) I began to think about the word platforms. He describes online …
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Are These Reviews True?
As with most things I write about, something triggers a thought that starts during away in my brain. Once it reaches a critical mass, I either go looking for more information, or other things I consume start triggering …
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Buy My Course
Curtis McHale in Productivity as a Fetish edition of their newsletter 3 Threads: Many of the people touting their system actually have a team behind them getting most of the work done. Their only job is to show you the …
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Free Content
Les Orchard (@lmorchard) on Mastodon: Folks pouring so much effort into a thing they seem to think is theirs and absolutely never will be. Doesn’t matter how much noise or how many petitions or how many shitposts. You …
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Moving Again
As you may have read already, I have moved my blog to Ghost. After using it extensively in 2020, I switched to something more simple and personal on micro.blog. Whilst this is fine, I have found myself in a place where I …
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Algorithm & Adverts
Adam Newbold on Mastodon: if you encounter outrage on traditional social media (X, Facebook, etc.), it’s because it was amplified to boost engagement and drive revenue on that platform. If you encounter outage on …
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Scoring Things
Manuel Moreale writing about their inability to Score Books: I suck at this. I genuinely don’t know how to rate things on a scale, which is why the vast majority of the books I rate are either 4 or 4.5. I can’t score …
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I Did It Myself
Despite me being adoptive of LLM usage to aid my work from a fairly early stage, there’s a lot of frustration brewing. No, not the fact that Open AI made ChatGPT dumber and less able to produce quality results, the fact …
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Runna Levels And Engagement Bait
In a recent Reddit post, Runna announced a new experimental feature aimed at improving running motivation. That’s right, seeing your real-world fitness improve and times go down isn’t enough, there’s a need to gamify …
