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erikgahner.dk

AI will be dead in five years

There is this joke that people do statistics in R, machine learning in Python, and AI in PowerPoint. (I did not say it is a funny joke.)

nytimes.com

Is creativity dead?

Or is the algorithm just hiding it from you?

errorprone.info

How to think about time

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. —Ray Cummings

themarginalian.org

18 life learnings from 18 years of The Marginalian

Somewhere along the way, you realize that no one will teach you how to live your own life.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Contrast is clarifying

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

terrain.com

Design literacy

Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation.

kottke.org

Does every species get a billion heartbeats per lifetime?

There’s an assumption that because of the relationship between metabolic rates, volume, and surface area, animals get 1B heartbeats per lifetime.

strangeloopcanon.com

When we become cogs

On motivation and technology.

orkohunter.net

Why don’t you move abroad?

An Indian’s answer from the Heart instead of the Mind.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

The beauty of building

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

sgringwe.com

Please just stop saying “just”

Do you work in Software Engineering, and have you seen messages or sentences like these before?

avdi.codes

How to cope with technology FOMO

Oh no! There are so many technologies to learn! You are falling behind! How do you choose what to learn?

behavioralscientist.org

Instead of being cynical, try becoming skeptical

Cynicism and skepticism are often confused for each other, but they couldn’t be more different.

chrbutler.com

Know what you need

Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier.

paul.kinlan.me

Will we care about frameworks in the future?

Paul is a Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google and loves to help make web development easier.

catherineshannon.substack.com

Everyone is numbing out

The dark side of ironic detachment and possible antidotes for our apathetic world.