Ev Williams – Medium

Jul 21

Bullshit begets bullshit, because no one wants to be bullshitted. In the bullshit wars, chatbots are weapons of mass destruction. None of this prose is good, none of it is really socially useful, but there’s demand for it. Ironically, the more bullshit there is, the more bullshit filters there are, and this requires still more bullshit to overcome it.

Plausible Sentence Generators

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Cory Doctorow

The bullshit race has begun.

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Jun 5

How you can help the Amazon Rainforest–today

Last week, Brazil’s Congress shocked the world by suddenly fast-tracking and passing PL2903, the Marco Temporal bill. This bill paves the way for the unprecedented destruction of the Amazon Rainforest by stripping Brazil’s Indigenous people of their legal rights to the land. How does it work? If it becomes law…

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Nov 25, 2022

It is interesting to note the alliterative name of this phenomenon. Research shows that alliteration improves processing fluency for our brains, which results in a term featuring alliteration being perceived as truer than one without — see this for a nice overview of the processing fluency field. I believe that Quiet Quitting has become an important concept in the mind of the public because the processing fluency of its awesome new name has resulted in it being perceived as ‘the truth.’

Quiet Quitting & Strategy

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Roger Martin

Fascinating.

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Oct 19, 2022

Cat Playing Piano, in the style of

Here are 40 images I generated with Distropic, an interface to Stable Diffusion, a deep-learning, text-to-image AI. These are rather prosaic in the world of AI imagery these days, but I wanted to get a sense of what it was like to use these engines. And, well, it’s mind-blowing, impressive…

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Jul 12, 2022

New Decade, New Ideas

Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO reins. Back in 2012, I wrote: Now that we’ve made sharing information virtually effortless, how do we increase depth of understanding, while also…

Medium

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Medium

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Feb 22, 2022

…t in real effort to keep it online. After all, we don’t really buy domain names; we just rent them. And if you publish on somebody else’s domain, you’re at their mercy: Geocities, MySpace, Facebook, Medium, Twitter.

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Jeremy Keith

This is true.

This is true. But for the record, except for things removed by the author or in violation of rules, everything published on Medium since inception (10 years ago) is still accessible at its original URL (or it redirects if the author set up a custom domain or subdomain), same with everything put on Twitter (for 16 years), and even everything published on Blogger (if hosted on blogspot.com)—for 22 years.

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Feb 15, 2022

Reliability versus Validity in Strategy

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Roger Martin

Yes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors.

Yes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors. Innovate or optimize.

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Jan 27, 2022

Hybrids are a sham concocted by an antiquated industry to deceive the market and regulators, and one backed up by governments that subsidize something that should never have qualified for any kind of support. Consumers buy them because they seem to address their concerns for the environment. In short, hybrids are the last, poisonous, gasp of an obsolete and profoundly harmful technology.

It’s time to expose the sham of hybrids

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Enrique Dans

🔅⚡️🚗

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Jan 24, 2022

Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).

Finally, a remote control that doesn’t run out of batteries

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Enrique Dans

That's amazing

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Jan 13, 2022

The 7 Most Innovative Plant-Based Meat & Dairy Brands

Janay Laing

This all looks yummy.

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