Tag: Watching

I almost lost this domain name. I was only on Instagram and Netflix.

What I’m reading?

• Platform Reality by Robin Sloan
  • “Ted Gioia’s recent newsletter style is a key example of 2020s ventilated prose, an unmissable textual trend.”
  • Always read the PS.
• Playability by Jay
  • “One of things happening in culture that I think we can all feel intuitively is that increasingly media mediums are playable. I don’t mean ‘gamification’, and I don’t simply mean ‘engagement’ (but metrics inside of systems are certainly part of it). But the sense that people – Gen Z and Gen A, are literate in exploring systems. They poke at the rules, bend them, maybe even break them and see how the system responds far more than millennials did. We played the game, but didn’t fully appreciate that culture is an emergent property of a system’s design.”
  • “gamification (In my opinion) is mostly about obedience theatre.”
  • “Gamification is used to make you feel like you’re playing when you’re really just complying.”
  • “Code writes the rules. Rules shape incentives. Incentives shape behaviour. And behaviour becomes culture.”
  • “This is why playability matters. Not because everything is a game, but because we are all beginning to think like players, and this changes how we should understand agency inside of systems.”
  • “There’s a lot more we can say about both of these challenges, but in short they make doing solarpunk both harder and more necessary. The more cyberpunk the world gets, the more useful solarpunks become. The more material reality is buried under layers of digital abstraction, the better it feels to actually get your hands dirty.”
• AI Won’t Live on Publisher Sites by Ben Werdmuller
  • “Almost nobody is visiting homepage after homepage. Readers almost universally read content from a central feed of information.”
  • “Email newsletters are, at their heart, another version of this model. By subscribing to a publisher’s newsletter, you’re adding their content to your reverse-chronological feed of information.”
  • “If AI lives in the browser, as it does in products like Dia (and soon in Chrome), you can query not just one information source, but every information source you visit through that browser.”
  • “publishers are better off considering how they might embrace emerging standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) into their offerings so that their information can be consumed.”
• Use a Lot of Words by Seth Godin
  • “Verbosity is the new brevity.”
  • “AI isn’t like that. In fact, our concision is getting in the way of the insight we’re looking for.”
• How I Turned ChatGPT Into My Personal Nutrition Coach and You Can Too by Brett McKay

What I’m watching?

• I’m watching The Rookie on Netflix.

The video has some AI tool suggestions that I want to try out.

This video taught me a lot about Dharavi and its history.

This video asks an interesting question and not sure if it really answers it.