Creative vs. generative
What qualifies as creativity?
That’s the question I’ve been asking since seeing the below toot from Gary Marcus.
Killing more trees faster
On this blog, I recently made the case for why writers should kill more trees.
Make art, not friends
Uncertainty in the human path
When your kids show your their art work, you have two options:
- You can pick it apart.
- You can enjoy it for what it is.
Sam Bankman-Fried and the imperfect calculus of effective altruism
I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux. The subtitle tells it all: The book is about the craziness that was the first crypto bubble. (As Bitcoin’s price hovers around $70,000, another bubble appears raring to pop.)
Will either presidential candidate challenge Big Tech?
If I were a single-issue voter in 2024, I’d vote solely on how I felt the presidential candidates would handle antitrust cases against Big Tech, not because I think tech antitrust is America’s greatest issue but because it’s one of the few issues we have long-overdue positive momentum on.
Why we hate the tech industry even though we love tech
So many of us love tech yet have fallen out of love with the companies which comprise the tech industry.
Is generative AI the best use of the world's electricity?
In a clip that starts a recent episode of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, Sam Altman acknowledges generative AI’s Achilles’ heel: energy.
Living in a post-growth world
Economic growth is a hell of a drug. But what do you do when the well’s run dry?
Simplicity - The lost art we must discover
21st-century living is complicated. But must it be?