Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson

Chicago-based theater director / designer / performer. Educator, facilitator, and researcher of art + learning + public life.

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

Announcement time: I am SOFA KING 🛋🕺 excited to be joining the cast of this incredible new musical, premiering in Chicago this November. Tickets onsale now! Come rock out with us like it's 2008 🏁🔥🏳️‍🌈🎵 https://t.co/rEPmZFLPw0

[Mudit @muditfx]

— Žižek, on not obsessing with psychoanalyzing oneself all the time

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

@pixelgrave_exe I guess like broccoli

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

This is another thing about AI - it lacks a history. And historically, that can be very dangerous

[Lumi @Lumivibes_]

stop using chatgpt. you guys need to just ask reddit, i promise you someone has had the exact same thought back in 2012

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

couldn't be me

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I'm convinced that the single greatest challenge for any ambitious person is eliminating the guilt associated with free time and rest.

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

hey good news everyone my fave is back in stock

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

million-dollar app idea - an AI that goes through all your apps and turns off all the AI

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

My problem is I believe I’m supposed to have fun every single day

[sarّ @saturn3tar]

Was what we had real or cake

[Shit Nonprofits Say @nonprofitssay]

Every year we will announce a new 5-year strategic plan.

[sophist @no_sophist]

we already have a data centre in my neighbourhood. it's called? The Public Library

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

I keep thinking about the doorman fallacy Rory Sutherland keeps referring to.

A hotel can replace a doorman with an automatic door and call it efficiency.

On paper, it saves money.

But the balance sheet only sees one job: opening the door. It does not see everything else the doorman was doing.

He was security. He was status. He was recognition. He was the first human signal that this place is cared for. He noticed who came in. He made regular guests feel known. He made strangers feel watched. He made the hotel feel like a hotel.

This is the danger of cost cutting. It often removes value that was never measured.

Many businesses make this mistake. They define a human role too narrowly, automate the visible function, and then wonder why the experience feels worse.

A receptionist is not just answering calls. A call center agent is not just closing tickets. A postman is not just delivering letters.

Human beings carry invisible value.

They create trust, warmth, reassurance, and memory. These things are hard to quantify, so finance departments treat them as waste.

But customers don't behave like numbers inside an excel sheet.

They live with feelings and emotions that are hard to measure.

And sometimes the thing you remove to save cost was the thing that made people trust you.

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

AND I WANT IT BACK

[sissy sub richard nixon @nixmao]

the L word is like a lost civilisation wdym they go to cafes and house parties everyday and they have well-paying jobs in journalism and the arts??

[Kim O'Connor @shallowbrigade]

People will talk about syntax and em dashes or whatever the markers of a current model are taken to be. But the real signature of literary AI is when it feels somehow overwritten and underwritten at the same time

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

Yes! In grad school we called it "creative cross-training," which i like for the practical comparison of creative habits to muscles

[Amanda Killian @eroscestlavie_x]

I can't find it now but recently saw someone describe being an interdisciplinary artist as "doing crop rotation on your brain" and I can't think of a better descriptor

[Buck @Buck36043Buck]

We all have that one friend who is Constantly Struggling against One or More Outrageously Absurd Plights

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

kinda been watching this pot for a while....lowkey wondering why it hasn't boiled 🤔🤔

[Keegs @lordesghoul]

You must romanticize your alley

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

or you could just...you know. write..

[Awa K. Penn @TawohAwa]

🚨BREAKING: PEOPLE CAN TELL YOU'RE USING CHATGPT & CLAUDE

The structure, the tone, the polish. It all gives it away.

5 prompts that fix it: 👇

[thereisnobeth @thereisnobeth]

the great thing about AI is that everyone seems to think "well it gets things wrong in my area of expertise but its so good for everything else"

[Fir Daddy 🌲 Jacob Watson @JacobCWatson]

@SamGreszes This is top tier