Making progress with multi-directional notes (heavily based on @andy_matuschak's notes) where a note link stacks to the right by default but can also be placed via W, A, S and D keys + click as a directional modifier for above, left, below and right.
🤯 This is a website, a simple web-based game built with WebGL and Three.js.
Website: https://t.co/G0cDgaWzKe
It's honestly surprising how far web development has come.
This was a really, really good listen. I can't get the IBM ad from the 1950s that Benedict mentioned out of my head. IBM's electronic calculator was like having "150 extra engineers" (and didn't seem to usher in a wave of tech layoffs).
A rational conversation on where AI is actually going with @benedictevans
For 20+ years, Benedict has been one of the clearest, most reliable thinkers on where technology is heading, and how it'll impact our lives. He was @a16z's resident "thinker" for 5+ years, and has spent the last six as an independent analyst tracking the most important tech trends. As you’d expect, he’s spending all of his time on AI. In his words, "AI is eating the world."
We discuss:
🔸 Where value will actually accrue in the AI stack
🔸 Why AI labs are suddenly buying consulting firms
🔸 The rise in anti-AI sentiment, and where it leads
🔸 Why distribution is becoming the ultimate moat
🔸 Why the right question about your job isn’t “What percent can AI do?” but “Is this a task or a job?”
🔸 Why things will probably be okay
Listen now 👇
https://t.co/7noMxqAyqJ
Browser aesthetics rethinking printed matter: why not use page numbers as a "scroll bar." Internal links to another page can be displayed at the corresponding Y height on the scroll bar.
There is definitely a subtle, felt sense around effort. My hunch is that we've subconsciously started tracking a lot more of these subtle things with media/content which sets off that uncanny valley-ish feeling.
Thinking about "creative time density": how many person-hours/years went into this specific artifact/place/experience?
It's a reliable awe trigger for me. Performers spending hundreds of hours preparing a few minutes of material for a big show, a scholar spending a decade on a book, a Ghibli film, cathedrals.
Not fully reliable ofc—doesn't capture the awe in jazz, plein-air painting, etc. But I think the absence of creative time density says something about what's missing in slop. At least in improv arts there's expertise density, which is a different kind of time density.
Fun related concept is "auteurial time density"—how many hours/years of *one person's* idiosyncratic creative perspective is represented here? Gaudi, Welles, Klint, Caro, etc
The best feature of AI discourse is the shift from the materialist thinking (particularly in design circles) around the mechanical thingness of things towards poking around the deeper aliveness of a thing.
I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.
I 3D scanned my stump and my ax and my wood and recorded my ax motions and splitting sounds and made it into a super satisfying firewood splitting simulator (vibecoded with Antigravity/Claude in threejs)