Kicked the tires for a few days and artifact.news is just...fine? Feels like I have to force myself to use it rather than wanting to use it.
After reading 50+ articles, recommendations still feel bland and the UX is otherwise hamstrung by publisher cruft.
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Adam Kazwell
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The world’s most design-centric company no longer has any top-level industrial design leadership.
What could possibly go wrong?
(Even more amusingly, they seem to be developing a design-by-committee culture by promoting IC designers instead.)
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Replying to @nickcammarata @nabeelqu and @ArtirKel
also it makes me feel safe and flowy when I can just jump from emotional problems to health ones, meditation ones, technical ones etc and in each area it’s an expert. With therapists it’s like every domain I bring up they know ~nothing, can’t be expected to, but ai does
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I view this as more hopeful than depressing. Validated user demand for wanting a safe space to ask tough questions.
Chatting with a bot could help reduce friction to getting people to talk with a real therapist if needed.
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ChatGPT sometimes glitches and starts showing you the response to other people's questions. Last night this happened and I kept hitting refresh.
Nearly everyone is asking for life advice. People want an AI therapist/friend.
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“Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress.”
-Marshall McLuhan
“The main question here is not is this technology probable, but is this the way we want to use technology?”
-Alan Kay
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The modern equivalent of “When art critics get together they talk about form and structure and meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
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Banged out this children's book from start to finish in 47 minutes thanks to : tome.app/kaz/gimme-sala
(inspired by my youngest chowing down on some salami right before bedtime)
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Truly epic post from : every.to/p/why-is-it-so.
If Atomic Habits is undergrad work, this feels like the start of getting your masters.
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More like Sheesh Ross amirite?!
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To elaborate:
The notion of That One Great Idea is silly. Think of Idea in plural form, not singular. It is not just the Ah-ha Archimedes Lighbulb moment. In the real world, to make any product spectacular, that moment must actually be followed by countless other ideas & choices.
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29. Your mind doesn’t wander. It moves toward what it finds most interesting. If you want to focus better, become more curious about what's in front of you.
30. Life continues whether you’re paying attention to it or not. I think that is why the passage of time is scary.
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Not just him, but as a dad with young kids I wish these creator talents were pointed in a different direction.
Hard to say what direction, but I hate seeing content optimized for the lowest common denominator / whatever gets the most views.
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Does anybody else get simultaneously impressed by @MrBeast’s raw brilliance, yet disappointed that the scientifically engineered “perfect content” is just dumping 1B orbeez into a field and blowing up a lambo?
Does that reflect on MB, the viewer, or our own human nature?
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Makes me wonder if single player tools are just non venture-scale? Making everything "collaborative by default" seems like an artificial strategy, but hard to resist if it means you get access to VC $$$.
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Replying to @lennysan and @npilosof
“You can’t retrofit collaboration”. That line really stood out to me as the fund manuel difference between tools like Evernote and Notion.
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"Here's how it's done at the highest levels, now go do it yourself"
...and here's a working link to one of his lectures that was missing on the site: youtube.com/watch?t=300&v=
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Virgil's "FREE GAME" is one of the most inspiring, subversive products to me
virgilabloh.com/free-game/
he turned over the keys to the kingdom: here's how it's done at the highest levels, now go do it yourself
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a cool effect of 's #latentblending code is that you can barely notice the big changes while morphing between two prompts
chaining more than 2 prompts would let you create hours of footage morphing between them in subtle ways
github.com/lunarring/late
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Sausalito sea lion statue falls into sea during storm.
RIP for now (they found it and it will be reinstalled in the spring).
marinij.com/2023/01/10/sau
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Turn ChatGPT into a todo app 🤯
(and how come existing todo apps don't give compliments when I complete a task?)
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Talk about a cold start problem...
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"Means for Uniting a Screw with a Driver," US Patent 2,046,837, by Henry Phillips, 1936. bit.ly/3IvJ55o
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“Building for the long run seems to run counter to 'lean startup' type goals, but the two are actually aligned”
1. Build simple solutions that solve real, urgent problems, in well-worn ways
2. Use battle-tested software
3. Integrate w/ 3rd parties only when absolutely necessary
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Any thoughts on why the index is under performing the market? Was it just that the Land & Expand leaders were over valued?
gothematic.com/idx/lenny
TIL: Open and Shoe Dog were written by the same ghostwriter.
🤔 Might need to read the Prince Harry memoir after all… twitter.com/ashleevance/st
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My favorite Silicon Valley diss is to look down on people because they haven't started a $1B+ company 😂 So what if they created multiple measly $100M+ businesses.
Look at these list of losers (and sorry, it's missing the year they were APMs, some <2008) rocketblocks.me/blog/notable-g
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no one who did the google apm program since 2008 has founded a 1B+ company, but ppl are convinced it’s good training to be a founder
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It’s 2023 and it's still so hard to capture insights while listening to podcasts. Has anyone come across tools that fix this?
Hoping things like anypod.ai can help but it's still early.
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Trying something new.
Since podcast episodes can be overlooked, or forgotten, I'm going to share 5 nuggets of wisdom from some favorite past episodes.
First up, my conversation with @ElenaVera on B2B growth strategy.
Here are five killer insights from Elena:
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When designing a consumer product, you should consider every tap by a user to be a miracle. The motivation to stop using a new app will always be stronger than to use it
To signup & complete a profile on Gas, we got it down to 15 taps total—with no keyboard required at any stage
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How it started, how it’s going
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Finally, Twitter search the way it should be:
perplexity.ai/sql
After playing with the demo, it's shocking all the basic questions that were tough to get at otherwise.
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In 2019 I was one of those chuckling in the audience.
Each year I laugh less and less.
"You can laugh, it's alright. But it is what I actually believe is going to happen." -
Looking forward to an even more serious 2023.
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Love the representation of topography in this 1976 isometric map of downtown SF.
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"It’s much easier to refine than it is to create something from scratch."
The productivity boost that came with Chat GPT surprised me, but it's so true. It's not just about getting fast answers to nuanced questions, it's the headstart that comes with having material to shape.
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It’s much easier to edit and refine than it is to create something from scratch.
Excited to share a sneak peek of what we're building. You'll be able to try an early version this in a matter of days. 
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"Publishing on the internet is a solved problem; finding each other on the internet, in a way that’s healthy and sustainable … that’s the piece that has never quite fallen into place."
via:
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"Many lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives. One person described how he thought of a color before arriving at a party and then introduced himself to people wearing that color."
Reading Twitter might be one way to get luckier since it injects variety by default.
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Consider this your lucky day!! Because a statement like this seems so preposterous, and yet...
This article spells out some compelling ways to build the skill of luck: telegraph.co.uk/technology/330
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Luck is a skill you can develop.
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From a news article this morning:
“The company, whose stock is down 90% from its 2021 IPO, surged 27% on favorable earnings yesterday.”
Guess how much the stock is down from its 2021 IPO, AFTER the surge? 87.3%.
The way back up for beaten down shares is very, very steep.
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Hi I’m the inventor of autocorrect. Ask me anything!
Tons of questions about why autocorrect isn't better.
"I can’t comment on why Apple software works the way it does. I stopped working on autocorrect in '09, and I left the company in '17. Your guess is as good as mine."
🤬🦆
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Anyone else get irrationally irritated when faced with the email unsubscribe options?
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Replace “might be” with “is”…
Exhibit A:
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One thing that is nagging at me is that in all the incredible GPT work I’m seeing, it feels like its ability to sound convincing might be outpacing its ability to be right. Seems worrisome.
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