AI perspectives
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Practical AI usage, workflows, prompts, and patterns.
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i drink wine, i don't count my sleep score, i never use AI, i cancelled my amazon AND I AM HAPPIER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Everyone jumping off the bridge to feel the wind in their hair.”
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He Quit Baidu. But First He Had to Build an AI Version of Himself
“After he left, coworkers could still message “Wei” with technical questions, assign tasks, send voice notes, or upload pictures.”
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Synthetic Personas Aren't the Enemy
“Are we going to define how they should be used or let someone else define it for us?”
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Synthetic Customers Earn Their Stripes
“Market leaders that can iterate quickly, test more ideas, and kill weak concepts early consistently outperform those tied to slow, episodic, siloed insight cycles.”
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Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer
“If you project the trend a little, everyone who's not an engineer is going to code a little more, and engineers like me are going to code less.”
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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
“Nice little personal essay you’ve got there, lady, but I know what you really are; time to get my knife out, time to start digging around under your skin until I find the wires.”
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Choosing to Stay Human
“My colleagues at Wharton call this “cognitive surrender,” and they documented how people would stop thinking about problems and just let the AI do the work, even when the AI was wrong.”
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The rise in plastic surgeons asked to create ‘AI face’
“Make me look like more of a chad,” I then instructed the chatbot.”
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After the Feed
If trust is the new economy, thick reputation is the new currency.
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AI eats the world
Strategic presentation analyzing AI as the next major platform shift in technology.
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AI in Design Report 2026
“Designers are using double the number of off-the-shelf tools than they did in 2025, and they're building custom software with AI that matches how they like to work.”
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AI as a Design Medium
“If you treat AI as a tool, you ask: how do I get the right answer? If you treat it as a medium, you ask: what happens if I push this?”
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Stewart Brand on 'Maintenance of Everything'
“The anti-technology romantic is almost always: 1) wrong, and, 2) mistaken in his arguments.”
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Capital Must Seek Delight
“When investment ecosystems lose contact with delight, they lose sensitivity to fragile emerging futures.”
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Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work
“Figure out who is seeking value and create it for them.”
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Aboard Newsletter
“Weekly insights, emerging trends, and tips on how to navigate the world of AI, software, and your career from Paul Ford and Rich Ziade”
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What AI Slop Means for Good Taste
“The use of AI among my peers is really seen as low-status behavior.”
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You can't beat AI.
“What happens when the thing you used to sell becomes almost free?”
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After AI stole his clients, one Big Tech ghostwriter is using AI to get them back
“What can the future look like for me?”
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People insist on having free will, and that's terribly inconvenient for billionaires
“The fact that an AI can't do your job doesn't stop an AI salesman from convincing your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job.”
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A Report on AI Content Detection & Reality
“The real rates likely sit somewhere between what people claim they noticed, and what they actually encountered”
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What 34 Studies Reveal About AI Search in 2026
“Branded queries tend to benefit from AI Overviews.”
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Building a Second Brain for Strategists
“How I combined Claude and Obsidian to build a personal knowledge system from scratch, in a single afternoon, with no coding background.”
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Is Anyone Going to Make These Data Centers Beautiful?
“What if data centers were less imposing? Less sensorially destructive? Less ugly?”
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Learn AI Layer by Layer
An interactive guide to understanding AI from first principles.
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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think
“Machine-generated text reads as smooth and polished, but it loses the meanders, interruptions and leaps of logic that communicate emotion.”
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Our Horizon of Possibilities: How Algorithms Contract Our World
“We can’t consider a career we’ve never heard of, read a book we don’t know was published, or explore an idea that never reaches us. The boundary of our awareness shapes the boundary of our choices.”
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The Un-Fuckening: Stop talking about AI like this
“I advocate for a narrative that does not discard people like a horse trying to rid itself of an annoying fly.”
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AI Students Cheating Homework Classrooms
“I want you to write out a really rough, terrible draft in your writers’ notebooks,” Ms. Binney told them. “And then I want you to scratch it out and rewrite it.”
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Agentic Web Playbook
A playbook exploring strategies and frameworks for building agentic web experiences
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When Magic Becomes Mundane
“A reflection on how AI tools transition from feeling revolutionary to becoming part of our everyday workflow”
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The Secret to AI Adoption: Make It Fun
“Smart people. Dumb AI.”
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AI Company Good Altruism
“The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale.”
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We'll soon find out what is truly special about human writing
“a willingness to stand behind words, to mean them, and to accept the consequences of having claimed to have written them.”
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Americans Are Speaking Less. Here's Why That's Worrying
“We've lost a lot of small, incidental conversations: asking a cashier for help, getting directions from a stranger, chatting with a neighbor”
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Beware software brain
“You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences”
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Nazi pedophile heroin suicide
“The tiktok algorithm doesn't work the way you think it does, or else I wouldn't be able to say this.”
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Thinking Ahead, Building Ahead
“A winning strategy is emerging amongst builders: Engage with what AI can do partially and build for when the partial becomes complete.”
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Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026
“Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026. period.”
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Crisis Response: Trying the Old Thing Harder
“We're in crisis, i wonder what we could do? Definitely not something new, let's try the old thing harder!”
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AI will make your marketing team faster and worse
“A sharp take on how AI acceleration might compromise marketing quality and strategic thinking”
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Tech Has Never Caused a Job Apocalypse. Don't Bet on It Now.
“Neither theory, history or the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely”
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Are You Coal or a Horse? The AI Job Paradox
“When technology leads to huge numbers of jobs disappearing quickly, bad things happen”
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“Working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game.”
“It feels more like a game loop: set direction, trigger action, watch what happens, evaluate, intervene, adjust, try again.”
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Zefr and OM Media Trials Release First-of-Its-Kind Study on Brand Impact of Ad Adjacency to AI-Generated Content
“Some AI environments can drive positive brand outcomes, while others introduce real brand risk”
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Using AI makes writing more bland, study finds
“The LLMs are pushing the essays away from anything that a human would have ever written”
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Young People Are Switching Careers to Avoid Being Replaced by AI
“From electricians to firefighters to açai bowl entrepreneurs, young Americans are pivoting careers based on one fear: AI taking their jobs”
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"if you hate AI you're probably white"
“It's important to recognise the difference between ai as a whole and generative ai. Ai has been used positively for decades to benefit societies, but generative ai is the one actively going against that, spreading misinformation, being used to exploit people, and so on.”
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The Veteran Podcasters Hanging Up Their Headphones
“Podcasters who spent the best part of a decade honing their craft and growing audiences are in a curious position: Burnt out or cast aside by fresh demands of the now thriving industry.”
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The Brand That Thinks
“The gap between these two kinds of brand is about to become unbridgeable. And most of the industry hasn't even noticed it's opening.”
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Don’t Mix Up Artifacts With Processes
“Work on your own? The bots are coming to ruin your life. Manage employee and constituent safety at a large group of harm-reduction-focused, state-funded addiction recovery clinics? “I use it for everything.”
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The Science of Why AI Still Can't Write Like You
“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”
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LLMs for Strategy: a Scorecard
“Hahaha, says the reader. Hahaha … fuck.”
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AI Style Guides: How to Help AI Write Like You
“It takes what you know instinctively about your own writing and makes it legible for a machine to use.”
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
“On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.”
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ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
“The true force of a technology is felt not with the substitution of tasks, but the invention of new paradigms.”
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The Science of Why AI Still Can’t Write Like You
“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”
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Agentic AI is nothing without understanding your org
“I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory”
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Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
“The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.”
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BONFIRE OF THE INANITIES: enshallowfication
“I think my problem - perhaps yours too - isn’t just unfinished projects. It’s unfinished thinking.”
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Sloperators
“If you give steroids to a Little League baseball player, they’re still a ten-year-old boy. Give them to Barry Bonds and he breaks every record in the books.”
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Something Big Is Happening
“I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job.”
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