AI perspectives

“The space between a question and an answer has value, and that value should not be engineered away.”

“The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam.”

“We are inescapably in relation with other beings and the world and are continuously adjusting to them.”

“The preferences and tendencies and aesthetics are deeply baked into its machinery.”

“Until recently, “someone cared enough to write this” was an ok heuristic.”

“The shares of entry-level workers and managers are each roughly 15% lower.”

“When every gap in understanding gets filled instantly, we lose the conditions that make human curiosity possible.”

“The labor that AI takes off our plate is the labor of production — the manual rendering, the duplicating, the templating. What it leaves behind — and intensifies — is the labor of seeing. Of noticing what’s working. Of catching what isn’t.”

“For example, I’ve worked with a brand that used to rank number one for all of their commercial terms on Google — drove a ton of traffic and revenue for years. They’re cited very heavily in AI search now, but often cited as, “by the way, don’t buy from these people.”

“Mathematical algorithms on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate”

“Familiarity is no longer a flex, it's the floor.”

“Everyone jumping off the bridge to feel the wind in their hair.”

“After he left, coworkers could still message “Wei” with technical questions, assign tasks, send voice notes, or upload pictures.”

“Are we going to define how they should be used or let someone else define it for us?”

“Market leaders that can iterate quickly, test more ideas, and kill weak concepts early consistently outperform those tied to slow, episodic, siloed insight cycles.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Make me look like more of a chad,” I then instructed the chatbot.”

If trust is the new economy, thick reputation is the new currency.

Strategic presentation analyzing AI as the next major platform shift in technology.

“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.”

“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?”

“The anti-technology romantic is almost always: 1) wrong, and, 2) mistaken in his arguments.”

“When investment ecosystems lose contact with delight, they lose sensitivity to fragile emerging futures.”

“Figure out who is seeking value and create it for them.”

“Weekly insights, emerging trends, and tips on how to navigate the world of AI, software, and your career from Paul Ford and Rich Ziade”

“The use of AI among my peers is really seen as low-status behavior.”

“What happens when the thing you used to sell becomes almost free?”

“What can the future look like for me?”

“The real rates likely sit somewhere between what people claim they noticed, and what they actually encountered”

“Branded queries tend to benefit from AI Overviews.”

“How I combined Claude and Obsidian to build a personal knowledge system from scratch, in a single afternoon, with no coding background.”

“What if data centers were less imposing? Less sensorially destructive? Less ugly?”

An interactive guide to understanding AI from first principles.

“Machine-generated text reads as smooth and polished, but it loses the meanders, interruptions and leaps of logic that communicate emotion.”

“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.”

“I advocate for a narrative that does not discard people like a horse trying to rid itself of an annoying fly.”

“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.”

A playbook exploring strategies and frameworks for building agentic web experiences

“A reflection on how AI tools transition from feeling revolutionary to becoming part of our everyday workflow”

“Smart people. Dumb AI.”

“The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale.”

“a willingness to stand behind words, to mean them, and to accept the consequences of having claimed to have written them.”

“We've lost a lot of small, incidental conversations: asking a cashier for help, getting directions from a stranger, chatting with a neighbor”

“You can't advertise people out of reacting to their own experiences”

“The tiktok algorithm doesn't work the way you think it does, or else I wouldn't be able to say this.”

“A winning strategy is emerging amongst builders: Engage with what AI can do partially and build for when the partial becomes complete.”

“Marketing engineers are the hire of 2026. period.”

“We're in crisis, i wonder what we could do? Definitely not something new, let's try the old thing harder!”

“A sharp take on how AI acceleration might compromise marketing quality and strategic thinking”

“Neither theory, history or the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely”

“When technology leads to huge numbers of jobs disappearing quickly, bad things happen”

“It feels more like a game loop: set direction, trigger action, watch what happens, evaluate, intervene, adjust, try again.”

“Some AI environments can drive positive brand outcomes, while others introduce real brand risk”

“The LLMs are pushing the essays away from anything that a human would have ever written”

“From electricians to firefighters to açai bowl entrepreneurs, young Americans are pivoting careers based on one fear: AI taking their jobs”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”

“Hahaha, says the reader. Hahaha … fuck.”

“It takes what you know instinctively about your own writing and makes it legible for a machine to use.”

“On their own initiative workers did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible, accessible, and in many cases intrinsically rewarding.”

“The true force of a technology is felt not with the substitution of tasks, but the invention of new paradigms.”

“Most people are wildly inconsistent writers.”

“I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory”

“The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses.”

“I think my problem - perhaps yours too - isn’t just unfinished projects. It’s unfinished thinking.”

“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.”

“I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job.”