Dave Kim Seattle

Notebook

Notes · 12 Working notes, hunches, and delights in various states of synthesis. Signals · 16 Little ideas and found fragments. Quick observations that haven’t yet found their way into longer notes.
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October 2026

  1. Signal How do we go from collective intelligence to collective understanding to collective wisdom?

August 2026

  1. Signal Thinking about good neighbors and neighborhoods as enduring infrastructure
  2. Signal If you ever find yourself stuck, paralyzed by a blank page or intimidated by a blinking cursor, try this. writing

May 2026

  1. Signal Reclaiming the feed

April 2026

  1. Signal Inevitable. What a sneaky, dangerous word. It closes off the possibility space and points to a specific (person’s, group’s, ideology’s) version of the future as the only one possible.

February 2026

  1. Note Loops, Not Divides AI
  2. Signal Whether you call it play, care, dreamweaving, or just giving a damn, how you do something matters. Great post by Behzod on infinite romance.
  3. Signal On the imagination crisis and how science fiction can help us think and feel our ways to different ways of being.
  4. Signal What are you optimizing for? What are you playing for?
  5. Signal Great position to not include ads. Marking this moment. AI
  6. Signal Every so often, I wonder what David Graeber would think of this moment. From bullshit jobs to anarchy to play to human ingenuity and more

January 2026

  1. Signal If you ever doubted that branding matters, just look at how people are reacting to digital gardens vs personal operating systems. AI
  2. Signal After all of the AI-enhanced digital gardens have been set up, will you be wiser? Will you be more kind? Will you have more grace? Will you be more brave? Or is this just another example of dialing in your workshop and never actually making something. AI
  3. Signal Transformation without joy becomes exhausting. Candour without care becomes brutal. Power without service becomes destructive. Leadership
  4. Signal A lot of people can get distracted by the work around the work. They see all of the "should dos" and focus on the theatre around the work instead of being focused on the work itself. craft
  5. Signal We are not here to automate bad workflows. AI
  6. Signal Dan Wang on storytelling Storytelling

May 2025

  1. Note Two Lists On Teams
  2. Note In Search of Country-Model Fit AI

January 2025

  1. Note A small rubric for jobs Career
  2. Note The Million Dollar Question: Deciding How We Decide On Decisions

December 2024

  1. Note Stepping Stones AI

October 2024

  1. Note Responsible Shouldn't be Radical Design
  2. Note Cabel Sasser's XOXO Talk: 4 Reminders for a Fuller, Creative Life Creativity

August 2024

  1. Note On Giving Circles Philanthropy

July 2024

  1. Note On Writing AI

June 2024

  1. Note One Man's Trash Anthropology
  2. Note Shape of Progress Progress

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