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"Former New York Times tech columnist David Pogue offers an in-depth review of Apple Vision Pro, from setup to his first 3D dinosaur encounter." —Harris Sockel, Content @ Medium
"I saw Into the Spiderverse last night and it was HIGH ART. Our post-movie conversation was about how Spider-Man is the perfect superhero to adapt to a multiverse-character with lots of iterations that are more inclusive and diverse; literally anyone can relate to/imagine the origin story of 'got bitten by a spider,' whereas other superhero characters are, for example, super-rich people (Batman), aliens (Superman), etc. I loved this academic take from an Assistant Professor of Latinx and U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literature, shared from the folks at The Conversation." —Brittany Jezouit, Chief of Staff @ Medium
"Want to immediately—as in, this minute—take some stress out of your life? Read the always wonderful Savala Nolan on what she calls the “low-key” or “good enough” summer. At the same time it takes a weight off of your shoulders, it will put a smile on your face." —Jon Gluck, Content @ Medium
"Mix curiosity with a passion for technology, and you can get an incredible hire that can diagnose complicated root causes and bring innovation to the company." —Daniel Rizea, Director of Engineering @ Google
"From ancient Greece to RuPaul’s Drag Race to Rudy Giuliani dressing in drag and receiving a kiss from Donald Trump, it’s been a part of various cultures as long as gender has." —Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, storyteller and U.S. Southerner
"For someone like me who's terrified of public speaking, this post is incredibly useful. Also, worth noting: 'A great toast can be as short as 10 seconds. But longer than 2 minutes and it stops being a toast and becomes a speech.'" —Harris Sockel, Content @ Medium
"An examination of the nature of 'elegance' through multiple lenses: complex systems, product design, culture, etc. A good read that makes tangible an abstract concept most of us take for granted day-to-day." —Ryan Duffy, Marketing @ Medium
"Anxiety is self-centered. I’m not saying you are self-centered, I’m saying that anxiety, that fucker out there, outside of you, is selfish. It very much wants to make you selfish too. Anxiety is our ego trying to drive a wedge between us and our reality." —Doc Burford, writer and game designer
"An oldie but a goodie from 2021. A deep (but accessible) look into the discipline of design thinking authored by a now former IBM design leader and current adjunct professor of design engineering in the MADE program at Brown/RISD." —Ryan Duffy, Marketing @ Medium
"This was delightful and made my day better. It's an honest (and funny) perspective on what it means to develop a meaningful relationship on a day-to-day level and over the course of a lifetime." —Harris Sockel, Content @ Medium
"This is something a little different than the usual photography advice, offering a thoughtful path forward that eliminates the procrastination beginners like me can fall prey to when learning how to use our cameras." —Terrie Schweitzer, Curation @ Medium
"An insider account from Steve Yegge, former engineer at Amazon, about attending an offsite at Bezos's house in 2004. It's the kind of story that helps convey what Bezos is actually like IRL (it's also just an entertaining read)." —Harris Sockel, Content @ Medium
"If you find yourself (or others) constantly digging or sifting through treasure troves of documentation for specific kernels of information, I encourage you to adapt this process for your own use case. You can modify this to work for your personal documents, or your company’s archives. And if you do, I guarantee you’ll walk away from the experience seeing your documents in a new light!"
"Isaac Asimov once said if his doctor told him he was dying, he wouldn’t lament, he would just type a little faster."
"It doesn’t matter how 'intelligent' it is — it can’t get to meaning if all it has access to is form. But also: it’s not 'intelligent.' Our only evidence for its 'intelligence' is the apparent coherence of its output. But we’re the ones doing all the meaning making there, as we make sense of it."
"You gotta read the comments! There is gold there — and more good writing." —Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
"If Generative AI has suddenly become so pervasive, isn’t there a secondary effect that immediately increases the scarcity, and thus the value, of uniquely human knowledge, experience, and intuition?"
"When discussing team organization, I am often asked: 'Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?' My response is to hiss like a vampire exposed to holy water. When the follow-up question is: 'Given you want managers on your teams, can the manager still perform code reviews?' I burst into flames."
"Following the go to school -> go to college -> work hard -> get ahead -> buy a home -> retire-in-comfort path is as foreign and bygone to them as the farm-the-land-with-your-dad-until-he-dies-and-you-inherit-it path is to a Boomer."
"For people to rely on intelligent systems, the systems must demonstrate human values, ethical decision-making, transparency in decision-making, privacy controls, data security, traceability, fairness and inclusion, contextuality, and a whole host of other considerations."
