I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
We do not know how, why, or when the X algorithm devalues posts with links, but it does—without telling you, and by a lot—and it makes the experience there worse. Without links, information on X is headlines without stories, commentary without... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad. Founder of Svbtle.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me on X. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions.... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
Last week, Tesla unveiled two world-changing products: Robotaxi1, a fully self-driving taxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and an autonomous humanoid robot, called Optimus2, that can walk and has fully functioning hands and feet. Both of these... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger screen made Surface feel absolutely futuristic: in the Photos app,... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
Ben Horowitz gave this remarkable response to a question about joy and happiness on Time Well Spent: In my experience there are really two things that lead to happiness and everything else is mostly noise. The two things are contribution and... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
Steven Levy interviewed Bill Gates for Wired, and it is quite an illuminating conversation. In past public appearances, Gates – like most experts – has attempted to walk the line between antagonizing the Trump administration and promulgating real... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
A couple of months ago, I switched entirely to an iPad Pro for about two weeks. I did not use my MacBook Pro at all, and forced myself to do everything on the iPad. After that experience, I planned to write some kind of review, but it turned out... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
From Apple’s announcement of the 16-Inch MacBook Pro a couple of weeks ago: “Our pro customers tell us they want their next MacBook Pro to have a larger display, blazing-fast performance, the biggest battery possible, the best notebook keyboard... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle
Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app... | Dustin Curtis | Designer, hacker, investor, nomad.| Dustin Curtis on Svbtle