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Williams wants to let his former comrades know “a faggot is doing this to them.”

‘This guy will betray me.’”

https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

A few seconds delay can make the difference between thinking rationally or going into survival mode.

All negative emotions begin with violated expectations.

Happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get.

Action belief consequence. Action is what happened you can’t change that but your belief about what happened can change the consequences especially for your peace of mind.

Reality is perfect until you compare it to something that’s not.

if you have a newsletter with 1000 subscribers that pay $5/mo, Substack will cost you $500/mo, Patreon $400/mo, Ghost $19/mo, Beehiiv $39/mo, Ko-fi $6/mo, Buttondown $29/mo.

https://buttondown.com/comparison-guides/take-rates

The destruction of patience is one of the most dramatic cultural shifts we’ll probably experience of our lifetimes.

A nation of uncritical drifters can change only the form of tyranny.

https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-fight-for-survival-in

For Marx, the poet of economics, when a person’s innate value is replaced with exchange value, it is as if we’ve been reduced to “a mere jelly.”

Artmaking—the cultural industries—occupies the middle of an uneasy Venn diagram.

Only twenty years ago, there was no public, complete data on book sales.

THE INTERNET is designed to stop us from ever switching it off. 

Influencers get attention by exposing parts of their life that have nothing to do with the production of culture.

We are not giving away our value, as a puritanical grandparent might scold; we are giving away our facility to value.

If you are reading this, it’s a commodity now, fluctuating and fungible, like so much digital dust.

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age

Airlines though, turned out to be an unavoidably rubbish business.

Fizzy-drinks – very favourable industry structure.

So is the position of LLM makers any good? I’m afraid it’s not good news.

Really though, LLM makers have only one true supplier: NVIDIA.

It’s worth saying that even companies that raise huge sums of money sometimes turn out to have no viable business.

Software companies are really good businesses.

The problem is that not all technology companies are software companies.

https://calpaterson.com/porter.html

After a lifetime working at mattering, I realized I had under-invested in what really mattered: Relationships.

Social networks became “social media”.

what would an actually social network look like?

Clearly, it would need to be private. Non-performative.

https://ev.medium.com/making-social-social-again-0126fa5c6ce8

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”        ~ bell hooks

this could be written about Barrie’s own Allandale and the 400: ‘but it’s really a divider—because it isolates Allendale.’

The iron law of congestion is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more peak-hour trips, which brings back traffic, and so on.

Because of induced demand, this Sisyphean struggle against congestion is an expensive boondoggle. Worse, the added miles of highway lanes act as an accelerant for climate change.

With so many forces pushing for roadway expansions, opposing them requires political bravery. 

https://slate.com/business/2024/08/construction-traffic-cars-driving-transportation-highway.html

What you’re seeing today is a very, very rapid evolution of an industry where the milieu is better understood by people who grew up in the same time frame as the industry. A lot of the years that many of us have spent in business before this time are of only limited relevance.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500