And find your “people” along the way
Everything we published this week
A dangerous question with fascinating answers
What consumer tech and media got wrong
What happens when “the algorithm” is just a prompt to GPT-4?
Be skeptical of pop psychology studies
How dream bankruptcy can help you move forward in life and work
Dispatches from the frontier of technology and the written word
Plus a few things that bring me hope
How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots that tell me what to do
The way creators are taught to pursue 1,000 true fans is broken
Anyone can search the past, but only Twitter can unearth the present
An interview with Replit co-founder Amjad Masad
How Amazon and Berkshire got too big
Rating my predictions from 2020: what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned along the way
The challenge of building better batteries
What gets lost in conversations about four-day workweeks
Taking time for a 10,000 foot perspective
It’s overrated—both financially and emotionally
Smaller, faster, cheaper, weirder
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