Archive - Hot Takes

The Circle: emblematic of Hollywood's tech hate and current creative dark age

One movie has all the hallmarks of modern/lazy storytelling - including the now-clichéd anti-tech stance - presenting a perfect ex of Hollywood's…

May 1 •

April 2024

Star Trek's warning against collectivist tyranny

The Borg present a great metaphor for warning against creeping authoritarian socialism on the far left

Apr 24 •

If information is important, it will find you

A simple concept to cure any digital FOMO you might have in modern times

Apr 17 •

The (total) eclipse was cool

I'm not sure what I expected, but the difference between partial and total is wild

Apr 9 •

Legacy industry rot is an ill of our time

Much work is needed if we hope for the world of atoms to improve once again, and along with it our optimism and vitality

Apr 2 •

March 2024

Good sleep fixes most things

I used to sleep poorly, but if your sleeps sucks, your life sucks. The good news is it's not that hard to fix.

Mar 27 •

The context is the point

A simple mental model to bring joy: the less context something has or the more that context is faked, the less you should care about it

Mar 20 •

You aren't upset enough about the war on hyperlinks

Our freedom to share links with our own digital communities has in many places already been taken from us. Bleaker: most say nothing about this.

Mar 12 •

How 'The Time Machine' explains the future of knowledge work

Maybe AI eventually lets us escape Earth and live forever, but in the near-term it will create two tiers of knowledge-economy worker

Mar 5 •

February 2024

Chasing shadows: the empty pursuits of money and fame as end goals

Desire for ever-increasing material wealth or followers is mid, nurturing craft, discipline and relationships offers true enlightenment

Feb 27 •

Quake: how the future of tech was already here in the late 90s

From accelerating GPUs to tight-knit digital communities, our current world was significantly catalyzed by a multiplayer game

Feb 20 •

Overcoming our nihilistic, uncreative world

Everything is getting blander: creative sectors like music and movies are a shell of themselves, entertainment championed and art mocked. But no one is…

Feb 12 •

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