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sopd.design

State of product design

Workflows, burnout, AI impact, career growth, and job market insights across regions and company types.

android-dreams.ai

Android dreams

A prediction essay for the next 20 years of intelligent robotics.

youtube.com

Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore

A deep dive into the first principles of movie immersion: perceptual realism, indexicality, haptic visuality, and cinematic qualia.

authoritarian-stack.info

The authoritarian stack

How tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America — and why Europe is next.

stratechery.com

The benefits of bubbles

We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will be worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?

how-did-i-get-here.net

How did I get here?

A dynamic traceroute + an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.

wreflection.com

AI’s dial-up era

We’re in 1995 again. This time with Artificial Intelligence.

om.co

Why tech needs personalization

Personalization isn’t a feature; it is a way of acknowledging that life has texture.

alearningaday.blog

Everything is television

How the cause for the global decline in intelligence could be attributed to the fact that we now get to carry this box in our pocket.

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out

Dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Cartography of generative AI

What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

baldurbjarnason.com

The inevitability of anger

Maturity means emotional regulation – not absence or denial of emotion, but regulation.

nathanbeck.eu

Alienation by design

When design to reduce friction risks eroding human connection.

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

stavros.io

Why is everything so scalable?

We’ve been in “FAANG architecture by default” hell for a while now.

interconnected.org

Cyborgs vs rooms: two visions for the future of computing

Loosely there are two visions for the future of how we interact with computers.

theatlantic.com

Move fast and break nothing

Why Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.

pessimistsarchive.org

Pessimists archive

An archive of historical technological pessimism.

geoffreylitt.com

AI as teleportation

Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?

blog.robbowley.net

Maybe it wasn’t the tech after all

What if most of the benefit from successful technology change doesn’t come from the technology at all?