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  • The Importance Of Dopamine

    Ali Abdaal in the video How To Reset Your Dopamine: nudging your balance away from instant gratification things that just let you experience joy and reward in the present moment more towards slower things that actually can help improve your life in the long term Not only is the level of your exposure to instantly gratifying things ruining the rest of your life, when you choose to do it is more important than you think.
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    09 Nov 2024
  • Finding A Third Place

    Federico Viticci in his iPad Mini review where he talks about it being a ‘third place’: I’ve been thinking about the idea of a third place lately as it relates to the tech products we use and the different roles they aim to serve… The iPad Mini is the ideal third place device for things I would rather not do on my iPhone or iPad Pro. Having completely missed all the iPad Mini reviews, I saw one in-store at the weekend and remembered it existed.
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    06 Nov 2024
  • Justification To Yourself

    Since my early days of being online, I have been fairly easily influenced into making a tech purchase. It only required a few people talking about a new phone, or a picture of a Pepsi can from Kurt Colbeck, to make me go out and buy a new Android phone. This was the days when phones were fun after all, and there was always a new one to lust after.
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    05 Nov 2024
  • I'm A Blogger

    Chris Wilson writing about his happiness being an unprofessional blogger: About 10 years ago, I wanted to be a professional blogger. Now I’m happy to be an unprofessional blogger. Well, most of the time at least. I, too, tried this thing called making money on the internet. At the time it was usually referred to as becoming a writer because a ‘blogger’ was a somewhat pejorative term that writers looked down their nose at.
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    05 Nov 2024
  • 🔗 iOS 18.2 Beta 2 Shows Siri ChatGPT Limit, Offers ‘Plus’ Upgrade Option - MacRumors

    Free access to ChatGPT–4o requests resets every 24 hours, and when the limited number of requests are used up, Siri will switch to a more cost effective version of ChatGPT. The free plan limits creation with DALL-E 3 to two images per day.

    Wait. People thought this was going to be free?

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    05 Nov 2024
  • What Zuckerberg Thinks About Your Posts

    Alex Heath from The Verge spoke to Mark Zuckerberg after Meta connect and there are numerous takeaways from it. I recommend you to give it a listen if you are at all interested in technology, or even if you just use Meta platforms. The episode is pretty concise to a few key areas, and posting to Facebook and Instagram is a large part of it. Below, I pulled out a few telling quotes on what Zuck plans for the future of his services.
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    04 Nov 2024
  • 🔗 Please publish and share more - Jeff Triplett’s Micro.blog

    Our posts are done when you say they are. You do not have to fret about sticking to landing and having a perfect conclusion. Your posts, like this post, are done after we stop writing.

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    02 Nov 2024
  • 🔗 Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds | Fortune

    I think were going to add a whole new category of content which is AI generated or AI summarized content, or existing content pulled together by AI in some way

    And that was the end of social media dear friends…

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    02 Nov 2024
  • 🔗 Threads will start showing others when you’re online by default | TechCrunch

    Meta’s X rival Threads is rolling out a new “activity status” feature that will let you see when someone on the social network is online.

    What users want: less engagement bait

    What they got: a way for people to be creepy

    I don’t think Threads have any intention of building a nice place to be.

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    16 Oct 2024
  • 🔗 The Why of Crazy Stupid Tech

    Both of us together have followed Silicon Valley’s innovation engine for more than 50 years. We’ve seen a lot. But one observation stands out: The best ideas — the ones that launch meaningful companies - need to seem crazy and stupid at first.

    As Arthur C. Clarke once said “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. We need more bonkers tech that brings back that feeling of awe.

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    10 Oct 2024
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