After another trip around the sun, I’ve made some updates…
“I don’t want to push the team to die over this,” Ms. Crawford told Mr. Musk at one point, trying to warn about burnout.
“Well, push them to just before they die,” Mr. Musk responded, laughing.”
An excerpt of the forthcoming book, Character Limit, published in The New York Times, gives some insight into the transition Twitter underwent in 2022.
Perhaps it will become a case study in the potential harms of organizational decision-making. Musk appears to offer a masterclass in how NOT to make decisions.
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I wish there was a video like this when I was 10. This looks so fun!
Roundup: Eric Schmidt says the quiet part out loud
if nobody uses your product, it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content.
Your digital ethics can’t be good if your business ethics are bad.
Someone just unironically asked me:
Is the pope Catholic?
Happy 100th Birthday, Brother Alberic!
When asked about what drew him to monastic life he answered, “Nothing. It wasn’t attractive at all.” It just got into his head that it was something he ought to do, he said, and the idea wouldn’t go away.
I love this response so much! Vocations are mysterious.
Turd, turd, turd. Turd is a word.
In our increasingly algorithmic society, we should look to wisdom like this, from the James Beard Award-Winning Hansen’s Sno-Bliz:
There are no short-cuts to quality.
Anthropic AI Scraper Hits iFixit’s Website a Million Times in a Day
“As per industry standard, Anthropic uses a variety of data sources for model development, such as publicly available data from the internet gathered via a web crawler…”
“as per industry standard” = “because our industry has no standards”