Tech Companies are Now Going All In on AI

Microsoft’s plan to re-open Three Mile Island for AI energy demand. AI is driving demand for nuclear. Sounds like some AI nightmare to me. Bots like you will become more sophisticated. Wow I get more AI memes! So worth it. For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small. Microsoft and OpenAI are currently planning … Read more

Build a Mind So Strong

– life isn’t supposed to be easy: challenge your mind– do something hard everyday– control your emotions, count to 5 before doing something, don’t let them control your life – stop complaining– stop making excuses – rely on discipline rather than motivation – don’t wait, start now – create systems based on goals —> commit … Read more

Social Media Stunts Personal Growth

Being connected between every social media platform is an existential nightmare… It’s anxiety inducing nightmare fuel. For those of you who don’t know a world without social media… allow me to paint a picture. You used to be able to slowly distance yourself from people. You used to be able to grow as a person … Read more

American is the biggest consumer in the world, not China.

The largest consumer market on earth is the United States of America, making up 26.1% of world GDP and 30% of global consumer spending with only 4.2% of the global population. China is the largest exporter. Why is the US consumer market larger than China’s despite having significantly fewer people only around 330 million people? … Read more

Webp the Bane of Internet

I absolutely despise webp. Nobody wants it. Nobody can work with it. Chrome just tries to spread it’s own stupid format which so many standard image editors like Photoshop reject out of hand. And still, because we use chrome, we always have to save images as webp nowadays. -.- WebP is bad because it increases … Read more

Are close relationships *actually* transactional?

Sorry maybe this is dumb, but please don’t so easily take something someone else said or written to be the profound ultimate truth. ************************* Contributing to a relationship is not the same as a transaction. You already said it well with regard to sex, “it’s a shared experience”. A relationship is about being a team, … Read more

Search is no longer transactional. It’s psychological.

Before, we optimized for keywords. Now we optimize around them. Google used to reward exact matches. Today, it rewards how well your content matches the psychology behind those words — not just the term itself. Two landing pages for a PLG SaaS product: Page A: Optimized with high-volume SEO keywords Page B: Written using user … Read more

How did Google Search become Shit

The Men Who Killed Google Search If you take one thing away from this, I want it to be the name Prabhakar Raghavan, and an understanding that there are people who are responsible for the current state of technology.  Do you want to know what Prabhakar Raghavan’s old job was? What Prabhakar Raghavan, the new … Read more

How Blogging Ruined the Web

The first website was created in August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, a European nuclear research agency. Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb browser became publicly available the same month. By June 1992, there were ten websites. The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 623 by the end of the year. In 1994, websites for the … Read more