A few interesting reads or listens:
- The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life, a deep dive into chemical sensitivity and toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, or TILT, by Lexi Pandell (WordPress!) at Wired.
- IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu, by Kyle Chayka at New Yorker.
- Simon Willison’s Lethal Trifecta talk, on the myriad security issues that arise when combining LLMs, prompt injection, MCPs, and more.
- Daniel Stenberg, a lead developer of the open source utility Curl, talks at FrOSCon about how AI reports are gumming up their security workflows. (YouTube, 53 minutes.)
- Daniel again (on his WordPress-powered blog) discusses a version of their maker/taker problem, specifically the 47 car brands that use Curl but none that sponsor it.
- Fernando Borretti’s Notes on Managing ADHD.
- Good Taste Is More Important Than Ever, by Nitin Nohria in The Atlantic.
Thanks for sharing. I would like to read more about your ideas around good taste.
I always found Om Malik (his writing and his view on tech) as someone who has really good taste and that he bet on WordPress as a early indication of trust I had to have in the platform some 17-18 years ago.
So, I want to encourage you to share more about your ideas around good taste.
Fernando Borretti’s Notes on Managing ADHD — are insightful and challenge some of my thinking and what works for me. But his call of sleep deprivation is spot on and also his todoist lists is something I might fork!