Daily Letter

Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech

There’s something beautiful about the most expensive game of all time ($2B) being dropped the same month that AI models became capable of creating comparable experiences.

Inspiration & Quotes × Money, Work & Power

Many such cases

One huge drawback of nuclear power is that it doesn't dismantle systems of oppression - it only produces clean energy. This makes it unsuitable for solving the climate crisis, which isn't just about the environment.

Design & Objects

The observer is not separate from the object observed

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society

If you think there are no secrets left to be found, then you will not be the person to find them, and if you think there are some to be found, you may very well be that person. And there is something about the way in which globalization has led to a world of seven billion people where we always think, well, there’s somebody else who’s already thought of this problem, or it’s an impossibly hard problem.

So there’s the sense that the world is a very flat place where you’re not going to be the one to discover it. And I think that’s an intuition that one always should try to resist.

Misc

Avoiding very sweet foods eventually makes them taste too sweet and reduces sugar cravings