Joseph King

Partner @madebyshore / Co-Founder @standards_site

[Joseph King @josephking]

A selection of my security pattern collection featured in this article by @szmagazin (German only) https://t.co/nIbOKAZl1M https://t.co/AZJEMMVkSP The collection is approaching 500, and I'm still looking for more. DM if you have any!

[Joseph King @josephking]

Challenging myself to use "taste infra" in a conversation

[Elizabeth Goodspeed @domesticetch]

I can't believe we're still having this conversation. You can't learn or earn taste. In fact, doing something because you think it will help you become tasteful inherently nullifies its ability to develop taste. Literally just do, read, look at the things you like. That is taste!

[Joseph King @josephking]

@marko1332 @BFordLancer Loretta’s is the end game

[Joseph King @josephking]

Depends on the rate.

Saving $47k interest sounds cool, but a 3% mortgage is very different than 7%. Many families feel real-world inflation closer to 4–6%. A fixed low-rate mortgage gets cheaper every year in purchasing-power terms.

The interest savings are guaranteed, but the opportunity cost may be larger.

[Space Investor @SpaceInvestor_D]

The Great Space Corridor

[Andy Matuschak @andy_matuschak]

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

[Joseph King @josephking]

Feeling particularly anglo nostalgic this week

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

No, you don't get it.

He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.

To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.

Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".

$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12

If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.

But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

[Joseph King @josephking]

RIP king

[Joseph King @josephking]

@ThrillaRilla369 Sideways

[Joseph King @josephking]

@jdreeves this. my wife's been quietly shaping my work for 15 years, and i deeply trust her aesthetic intuition. she has a degree in architecture, and consulted with many of our clients in architecture, interiors, and hospitality. she's now a part-time studio director at Shore.

[Joseph King @josephking]

@vanschneider love this.

[dany @danywander]

a reminder that branding matters.

[Joseph King @josephking]

@round https://t.co/rPYiAE62t8

[Joseph King @josephking]

@jdreeves campaigns mislabeled brand identity

[Joseph King @josephking]

@LAChas77 Just had my first softball game after like 15yrs on Monday and I'm still sore. 🥎

[Noam Dworman @noam_dworman]

Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.

[Joseph King @josephking]

@hthieblot Google Reader

[Joseph King @josephking]

AI slop? Nay. I can’t wait strap into VR and walk around key moments in history.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

How AI “remembers” the Subway Opening in New York City.

[Joseph King @josephking]

@jwhittenbergK5 Westward or The Pink Door