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No Brain Space
One of my favourite writers, Craig Mod in his Ridgeline Newsletter: The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” …
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Power Adapters And Markets
Serial EU moaner John Gruber, responding to a measured approach from Nick Heer: I suspect there are going to be a lot of Europeans who buy a new M5 MacBook Pro and wind up charging it with inexpensive low-watt power …
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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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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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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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Web Users Don't Follow Links Anymore
In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Athena Chapekis reports for Pew Research that Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results: Google users who encounter an AI …
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The Social Media End Times
Casey Newton in Platformer at Meta Connect: It went all but unmentioned on stage, but Meta says it is beginning to test content “imagined for you” by Meta AI on Facebook and Instagram. Meta will use your likeness and …
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No Hallucinating, That’s An Ad
Marty Swant of Digiday has seen the Perplexity pitch deck for building an advertising business: According to a copy of the pitch deck obtained by Digiday, the plan is to integrate ads within users’ queries and answers …
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There’s Both Too Much And Not Enough Attention
Charlie Warzel writing about his toilet theory of the internet: I have precious little time to hook a reader with whatever I’m trying to get them to read—but also that my imagined audience of undistracted, fully engaged …