Signals Archive

What are you optimizing for? What are you playing for?

Great position to not include ads. Marking this moment. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-is-a-space-to-think

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

If you ever doubted that branding matters, just look at how people are reacting to digital gardens vs personal operating systems.

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.

Transformation without joy becomes exhausting. Candour without care becomes brutal. Power without service becomes destructive.

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.

We are not here to automate bad workflows.

Dan Wang on storytelling