I linked to this article from 2019 not because there’s anything particularly noteworthy about it but because it represents a certain viewpoint in vogue only a few short years ago. I can’t believe how often I heard this same refrain repeated over and over and over again, this idea that Millennials valued authenticity above all else (and Gen Z just as much if not more so). The absolute worst thing you could do as a brand trying to reach “the youngs” would be to come across as fake. As a...| Jared White
I love many places in the State of Washington. I do not particularly like Washington.| Jared White
🚨 This TED talk is an absolute must-watch. 🚨| Jared White
There have been a handful of truly terrifying things I have read in my life. 1984 was one of those things…a book I read once decades ago which still feels seared into my brain as one of the most horrendously frightening stories I have ever engaged with.| Jared White
This entire essay by Benj Edwards over at Vintage Computing and Gaming is fantastic, but that section in particular stood out to me because I’ve been making the exact same analogy. #GenerativeAI companies are treating all human creative output on the Internet like it’s merely raw material to extract out of the environment and repurpose for their paying* customers. Who cares if the overall quality of software keeps decreasing and frequent #enshittification is the new normal? Gotta keep the...| Jared White
