Eugene M Joseph

I don’t think the next wave of consumer AI apps wins by being better prompt wrappers. They win by turning model capability into experiences people can feel. Chirogram is my small experiment in that direction: an old ritual I grew up around in Sri Lanka, rebuilt with AI and wrapped in a bunch of product details, like a guided scan flow, structured first reading, generated follow-ups, history, guest mode, and little sparks and animations while the reading comes to life. Here’s the onboarding:

Solar power in the deserts of North Africa is enough to supply forty times the world's electricity demand.

@shl planner.overtonelabs.com Uses browser local storage to store everything. It's more of a tracker than a to do list. Also contains a general purpose chart and schedule tools.

Everyone should make a to-do list app (reply with yours)

BREAKING: New York just passed a first-in-the-nation law, which was inspired by my reporting for the @newyorker on restaurant reservations newyorker.com/news/our-local…

iMessage option to make one big donation and never get a political text again

Today, I’m launching ApertureChina, a research and strategy consultancy that is focused on Chinese consumers. I’d like to thank you, all of my 1,800+ subscribers, for joining me on this journey as I discover my passion and path. bit.ly/3FUFCuM

@cocteau 🌎🐼

Time to get building!

For @NewYorker, I wrote about a middle-aged couple's attempt fly across the Atlantic in a balloon—and what happened after a mid-flight disaster! newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Prof Ananth, former Director of IIT Madras: "We scientists and engineers think if we do A, we will get B. But society is so complex that you don't get B, you get B prime which is very different from B. And to understand that, you need a humanities background." /a

Yesterday I caught up with @EugeneMJoseph and @lena_arkawi. Last August, we finished our @BrownInstitute summer fellowship under @justinhendrix and @cocteau. We all walked away with initial funding to help launch our businesses. What a YEAR! Being a founder is hard, and we talked about how there is more than one way to build a great company (VC-backed, “lifestyle” business, non-profit, etc.) It’s crazy to hear the paths we’ve all been on. I feel lucky to have started this journey alongside them.

@Summer_Delaney @CollabWORK_co @ashleydaysc @HearstLab Congrats!

Important to celebrate the wins in start-up world - including passing 10 paid enterprise customers!! I got sent this bottle of champagne when we raised our pre-seed round and wanted to save it for a special occasion. Onwards to the next milestone! 🥂 🚀

Jeff Beck was a genius, a stunning original. He was an astounding guitar player with more ways to make you go, “WTF was that?” than anybody else. He was profoundly talented, and never stopped innovating on the instrument. R.I.P. Jeff.. facebook.com/10004425556504…

Twenty years ago, Listening Post opened in the ground floor gallery at the Whitney Museum. LP looked into "all the unrestricted Internet chat rooms in the English-speaking world and dredge[d] up thousands upon thousands of random sentences, even as they are being typed ..."

Salt Lake Valley west-siders bear the brunt of our bad air. Here’s how we will tell their stories as never before. sltrib.com/news/2022/12/1…

ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but good enough at some things to create a misleading impression of greatness. it's a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now. it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness.

Absolutely breathtaking! Kittiya Pawlowski captures a rare snow leopard roaming around 18,000ft close to Mt Everest.

New blog post! This one has been a long time coming, but it's a triple-header, discussing 3 papers @DianaTamir & I have published on action understanding and prediction, why we got into studying actions at all, & what doing so can offer social psychology: markallenthornton.com/blog/action-ta…

A horrendous attack happened to my friend Shuai in Brooklyn last weekend. Trump is gone but the hatred he stirred up lived on, and this could happen to anyone. If you know any personal injury lawyer please pass on the details. #StopAsianHate

My friend @haobing_shuaike was attacked on the subway on Saturday, without any provocation. I was with him at the time and we believe it was a racially motivated attack by a deranged individual.

1/ This past weekend my partner @haobing_shuaike was attacked while riding the MTA in NYC. With his permission I am sharing screencaps of his story. Thanks to the heroic intervention of bystanders, Shuai did not sustain life threatening injuries. Nurses and doctors told us...