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

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

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.

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

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

Dull, cold day

Dull, cold day. And then I was chased off my racists (don’t ask)

Hello photography. It’s been a while

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 interests to generate photos and videos with AI, and you’

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 When the idea of using an LLM as a search engine started

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 readers is an idealized one. It says a lot that