it just turns out that when you give everyone a button that says “show me more stuff like this” they keep pressing it until they end up somewhere insane. This is called “progress”

Punk’s not dead it’s just raising a bridging round

Modern work: you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the Zoom where you take notes in Notion to track progress on Trello and you get to Friday and you've just moved the same crap around in 17 databases and each one costs $20 (30% off annual)

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

You can't tell me Engadget isn't using AI generated content

For years, Affinity's users have been voting with their wallets, choosing perpetual licenses over Adobe's subscription-based suite. We were buying more than access to software; they were buying autonomy and the promise of ownership. But now, with Canva's acquisition, it feels as though that promise is in jeopardy. https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/are-we-losing-affinity

You: it takes a village to raise a child Vikings: let’s raze this village to take a child We are not the same

We've been fed a lie. The "experts" tell us our content has to resonate, that we need to tap into “cognitive psychology” and craft narratives that stick. But is this really the key to standing out in a world of infinite distractions? I'm not buying it. https://paragraph.xyz/@boredventures/the-resonance-myth

Crypto enthusiasts have always argued that regulation is the enemy of innovation. And perhaps, in some cases, that might be true. But can we honestly say that the lack of regulation in crypto has led to any tangible, groundbreaking innovation? https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/crypto-had-its-chance

The world can be a pretty fucked up place. Everyone has something they care about. And everyone has limited bandwidth. Don't make the mistake of assuming that someone is a shitty person because they don't care as much as you do about one particular thing.