i know the Substack people love to celebrate that long form is alive and well but looking at the feed there i’m starting to wish it wasn’t there is a brevity to a tweet thread that trumps every 4k word self-indulgent rant that doesn’t even tell the truth by the end

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it’s disrespectful to the format of the essay to use it in this way Montaigne was remarkably brief and precise in his posting, a true appreciator of just saying what’s needed

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you notice how it’s only programmers who say things like “software is over”? curious, eh? how the one group of people who only cared about code think that computers are just about code i suppose that “moving bytes around is solved” doesn’t sound as impressive but it’s closer to the truth

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...And the big final boss fight takes place in a platonic superreality of knowledge graphs. Wacky description, I know. Not a very marketable description. But data folks, you get it, right? You're gonna go read this book now, right??

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I have a new book recommendation for all of my #dataBS peeps: There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org Imagine: if null values existed in the real world as black holes embodied as cryptids and there is an X-Files type of Organization devoted to finding and containing them...

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