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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 dollars of investment, AI needs to solve complex problems and enable

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 always a good

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 .. basically just a repository where I just

Question Yourself The Most

My superpower is thinking too much about the things I do and the choices I make. I used to think this was a hindrance because it sometimes stoped me acting quickly and getting things done faster than should. Or spending too much time worrying about things that didn’t need

Why I Hate Instagram Now

Colin Friedersdorf writing in The Atlantic about why they Why I Hate Instagram Now Meta, Instagram’s parent company, still says its mission is giving people “the power to build community and bring the world closer together.” As it thwarts my efforts to see all the photos posted by people

No Need To Upgrade

Kev Quirk writing in Three Years With My M1 MacBook Air > Question is, will I upgrade? Well, no. Not any time soon anyway. The M1 Air still does everything I need it to extremely well. So why upgrade? Why drop another £1,000 or so on the latest version

One Task Minded

I write a lot on my iPhone. If I can estimate, I would say at least 70% of my blog posts are published from it. This is largely due to having it with me all the time, and it being comfortable to type on after years of practice. However, I

Anthropomorphising AI

Zach Seward being clear that AI is not like you and me: > Aristotle, who had a few things to say about human nature, once declared, "The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor," but academics studying the personification of tech have long observed

Zuckerberg Opening Up

Karissa Bell for Engadget: > Zuckerberg then launched into a lengthy rant about his frustrations with “closed” ecosystems like Apple’s App Store. None of that is particularly new, as the Meta founder has been feuding with Apple for years. But then Zuckerberg, who is usually quite controlled in his

The iPad Life Comes For Us All

Perhaps not all of us, but for many people who are interested in tech, and particularly bloggers, the allure of being able to use a tablet to get things done is a strong one. I’ve been there, realised that I can’t make it do what I want, yet