way too many managers of people doing precise work think their job is to rattle the cage as hard as possible to make it go faster, and that has never been a formula for getting optimal results out of intellectual labour.

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i feel like this why managers are the biggest advocates of llms: the technology caters to the impatient “don’t think about it, just do it” attitude a lot of managers have towards productivity where they were already pushing towards quantity over quality, quick and careless over halting and precise.

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covering cars you have to separate your personal taste from what the market demands, and that's hard when it comes down to something like slop restaurant menus... I find them viscerally off-putting, but I see more and more of them all the time, and have to ask myself what pushback looks like

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AI slop is a supply side game-changer, so it's easy to focus there, but ultimately everything comes down to demand: will the public, in aggregate, be satisfied with slop or demand more? skeptics have to understand they're betting on the public's capacity for taste and discernment, and well

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The last 60 hours have been shocking, confusing, overwhelming and everything else, but have also demonstrated over and over and over how amazing and compassionate my network is--from people I've known for ages to people I've never met. You have all helped me to keep from sinking, thank you.

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