Principles
Principles from Edward Povey
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Notes and Links
Notes and links - 15th of February
In Defense of Fakes An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on MeScott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon WillisonThe Financialisation of The
Communicating
Ira Glass on the building blocks of storytelling
The London Review of TikToks
London Review of TikToks
@theromeshshow Are we being trained? 👀 Screenwriter and producer Jack Thorne on TV writing and keeping the audience. Watch #TheRomeshRanganathanShow now 📺 on YouTube. #jackthorne #romeshranganthan #podcastclips #tv #tvwriting #netflix ♬ original sound - The Romesh Ranganathan Show - The Romesh Ranganathan Show @drrachelbarr How to stay sane in an insane world 🧠 check
Design
Kevin Systrom on product thinking
@clearmatrix.io 📸 The Origin of Instagram: Built on Simplicity and Timing. Before Instagram became a global phenomenon, it started with a simple idea: what if photo-sharing could be fast, beautiful, and social? Kevin Systrom, a Stanford grad and ex-Googler, had built a check-in app called Burbn, but it was bloated
Noticing
Seems about right
Just floating centristly
Presenting
Conor Neill on how to start a speech
Listening
This is magic
Especially good comments
Design
Nicholas Wilton on contrast in art
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Unmonetisable me
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Notes and Links
Notes and links - 8th February
"Where we are with agentic AI feels a lot like the cloud computing boom of 20 years ago. Marketed on claims of efficiency and flexibility, its big innovation was to remove friction between a company’s operating expenses and revenue lines of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Whereas project purchasing
Decisions
David Lynch on intuition
@contemporary.blueprint Intuition Is the Artist’s Compass // David Lynch 🟠 Intuition isn’t instinct—it’s knowing without needing to explain. 🟠 It’s the overlap of feeling and thinking, a quiet inner signal. 🟠 For artists and innovators alike, it’s your closest ally. The most powerful creative decisions don’t