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The AI writing witchhunt is pointless.
Alexandre Dumas ran what was essentially a content production house in 19th century Paris. His most famous collaborator was Auguste Maquet, who wrote substantial portions of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Maquet would produce drafts and outlines, and Dumas would rewrite and polish them, but the
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The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked
Time is a User-Interface
The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video Now
I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of
The World's First Bullshit
I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent
Notes on going solo: celebrating 6 years of Studio Self
Since roughly // broadly 2020, I’ve been running a solo-powered minor empire. I have no employees, and my only office is my home office, filled as it is with cat
Members Only: On Cathedral thinking
Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.
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"Collaboration" is bullshit.
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Members Only: How do we define our own flourishing?
Nikolai Kardashev believed we could classify civilisations by the eneregy they harness. The Soviet Astrophysicist proposed three “Types” of civilisation - Type I controls the energy budget of its homeward,
Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
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The optimized self and the life that got away
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