M.G. Siegler in I’ve Been Here for Years
A lot of what I have written over the two decades – thousands of posts – remains online, but a lot also doesn’t.
I have a lot of words out there from a decade of writing. Some places have closed down, but some are still up but have changed the name next to the words I wrote. Which is inexcusable to be honest.
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Unfortunately, it went on to be yet another one-and-done Apple accessory that was discontinued with the iPhone 15.
Did not realise this was discontinued and it’s weird they didn’t launch an updated version.
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On this day, one year ago, Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI — an event known internally as “The Blip.”
Wait. That was A YEAR ago!!
Matt Birchler in I’ll eat an AirPod if I get this prediction wrong
I would challenge anyone who thinks Apple’s LLM features will be more “mainstream” then ChatGPT “before the end of the year”
I also don’t think people realise how mainstream use of ChatGPT is.
Garbage Day in Bluesky’s the new Twitter probably
a moment at some point in the future where enough people who grew up on a text-based web have died off and taken with them any memory of enjoying reading and writing posts online.
A little over dramatic, sure, but I don’t think it’s far fetched to expect a future where reading is ‘boring’ and therefore bothering to write online becomes less and less popular.
Paul in Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career
Content and writing are not the same thing, at least the way that we’ve come to define them in contemporary society. Content is inherently transactional; its goal is to drive towards some kind of conversion, some kind of exchange of value.
There is a stark difference in writing to engage and writing to influence.