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  • Where does the whole “Anti Social ___” thing come from?

    It all started in 2015 when Neek Lurk (aka Alex Neek) founded the “Anti Social Social Club” (ASSC), a streetwear brand that originated in Los Angeles, California. He was a former social marketing manager for the streetwear brand Stüssy before launching ASSC. The brand quickly gained popularity in the streetwear community and on social media…

  • Things AI Can’t Replace

    The more I learn about AI, the more it seems that everything can at some point be replaced by AI (and robots). But then there are things that (maybe) can’t. Humans will always appreciate human craftmanship. At least that’s what I believe. (Although maybe, who knows, at some point AI will be able to match…

  • Free online image editor (basic Photoshop alternative)

    https://www.photopea.com is a simple free online image editor that has some basic functionality resembling Photoshop and doesn’t require registering with an account. Neat for some quick and simple edits.

  • Free Vector Icons

    thenounproject.com has a great collection of free vector icons you can use. Some of the contributors I really like: Olena Panasovska is one of the contributors who I like: There are some nice patterns like these: https://thenounproject.com/icon/japanese-pattern-3818257 https://thenounproject.com/icon/japanese-pattern-3818251 As well as some nice icons related to the golden ratio: https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/similar/golden-ratio-3420246/?p=1

  • How Big Tobacco Intentionally Made Snacks Addictive (And Americans Fat)

    This is crazy, I didn’t even know that Kraft (the food company) was owned by Philip Morris (the cigarette company), which renamed itself to Altria. Just watch this, it’s ridiculous. Just one quote from this video: “The chemically addictive, salty, fatty, and sweet foods that big tobacco helped to create make up 68% of the…

  • DeepFake Videos Going Mainstream (Everyone Can Create Them Now)

    This is happening faster than most of us anticipated: This is the deep fake technology that is availible right now. FREE. We should have open and honest conversations about it. Pretending its going to be some niche thing and hard to access is a huge mistake. 2 months i'm guessing, Millions will have access. pic.twitter.com/7jZVECGNWD…

  • Anthropic Founder Interview: Multimodality, AI Assistants, And The Next 2 Years In AI

    Dario Amodei, founder of Anthropic (the company behind Claude.ai, and essentially Amazon’s AI play) recently gave an interview. Obviously at his scale every interview contains some amount of PR-talk, but it’s nonetheless an interesting interview. Here are some key talking points from the conversation: What’s more, he mostly talks with enterprise customers in mind, but…

  • What Led to the AI Boom? A Short Timeline

    I was recently wondering (again) about how we got to where we are: This period of rapid change where AI is developing all these astonishing capabilities. I remember as little as 2 years ago playing around with AI writers (like Jarvis or Copy.AI) and being fundamentally underwhelmed. Then Dall-E happened, which was the first 🤯…

  • Douglas Adams On Technological Progress

    Douglas Adams wrote a famous essay back in 1999 called: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. Since this is a time of drastic technological change, it’s worth recalling “the way these things work” according to Adams:

  • Spin Up Red Cells: What It Means

    To best understand what “spinning up red cells” means, let’s use an example: Changing the way a large bureaucracy works is almost impossible. What you can do however is spin up red cells. In this context, “to spin up red cells” refers to creating independent groups or teams (red cells) within the organization. These groups…

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