Stowe Boyd | workfutures.io @stoweboyd.bsky.social

Huawei's new laptop. Pay attention after the 13th second. Wow!

Talking Around The AI Apocalypse - Stowe Boyd You can say a lot that's true and leave out the kicker: who's responsible. workfutures.io/p/talking-arou…

@TheFigen_ Godzilla

Apparently if you’re right-brained you see a rabbit, if you’re left-brained you see a turtle. What do you see?

They Should Not Pay | Stowe Boyd Claudia Sahm | Low Quality Jobs | Sad Desk Lunch | Stop Hiring Humans Workers did not cause inflation, and they should not pay for bringing it down. | Claudia Sahm workfutures.io/p/they-should-…

Enslaved To A Recent Past Living In An Unhistorical Present | US Literacy | Who's Getting Hired? No class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past. | C.S. Lewis workfutures.io/p/enslaved-to-…

31/31 So unless the WH can provide a transparent explanation, of his health, that better fits these circumstances, I'm forced to conclude that they are lying to the American people - and hiding that Trump had a stroke. It's time for the press to push on this and get clarity.

@jasonaverbook Accelerating the past might change the future, but the result is likely to be a future we don't want. 'There ought to be a future we can choose. It’s up to us to find it.' | Katsuhiro Otomo, *Akira*'

Most “transformations” are just expensive upgrades. New tech. Same logic. If we want to truly reset, reimagine, redesign, and rewire—we need to think from first principles, not precedent. This is what that looks like and why "first principles thinking is so important" @peterhinssen @Euan @nilofer @bhorowitz @tnvora @AdamMGrant @stoweboyd

@TfTHacker What if she had never started relying on LLM-based tools? What if she had been writing everyday, her own thoughts? What if she had been reading hard works, not doom scrolling. Maybe we don't need a reboot if we never fell into the trap she found herself in?

Interesting article "I Deleted My Second Brain" by Joan Westenberg - Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save I sympathize with her argument for simplifying her mental space. joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my…

Lattice of Coincidence Alexander Cox | Razib Khan | Note to Readers | Urban Doom Loop, Revisited | Cognitive Debt: The Downside of LLM Tools A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. | Alexander Cox, Miller in the film Repo Man workfutures.io/p/lattice-of-c…

@clairesuddath I'm writing a retrospective on your It’s Getting Harder to Be a Woman in America piece, and would like to get your response to some questions, embedded in this sketch. share.note.sx/smnyl7e0

@EleanorKonik Dr Doolittle

@stoweboyd Wait tell me more I don't get the reference.

Do you prefer classic mythological creatures in stories or the uncommon creatures? 🐉 Classic all the way (unicorns, kitsune) 🕯️ Lesser-known, please (bunyip, domovoy) 🐙 Get that nonsense out of my book! What are your fave fictional examples? Looking for more to read.

Sheer Insanity Hannah Arendt | Brain Drain | Values | Go East, Young Man | Elsewhere Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest — forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. | Hannah Arendt workfutures.io/p/sheer-insani…

History Teaches Antonio Gramsci | Upside-Down Story about an Upside-Down Reality | Elsewhere: Speaking of WFH, Vulnerability, The Robot Curve, More Posts History teaches, but has no pupils. | Antonio Gramsci workfutures.io/p/history-teac…

Grassroots Redemption | Ben Rhodes has an off-left inkling about a Democratic resurgence. He pushes back on Carville, Schumer, and progressives. stoweboyd.io/p/grassroots-r…

Portfolio: Journaling by Day and Week The third in a series introducing Portfolio, a comprehensive system for notetaking in Obsidian. workings.co/p/portfolio-jo…

A brief summary of life in the UK: 27 million private sector workers support 9 million economically inactive people aged 16-64, 6 million public sector workers, and 13 million pensioners. If you suggest any part of this is unsustainable, people compare you to Hitler.

You fucking shidiots telling me to “cry harder” because you “voted for this”, think you’re gonna end up on top of Mt. Broligarch? You think shitting on the Constitution is gonna make life better for you? Wake the fuck up. Look around. He doesn’t give a shit about you. He never has & never will.

In Praise Of (A Little) Mess Be (A Little) Scruffy It can be okay to let a little messy into your life. (From 2008) I’ve been writing these sorts of posts since 1999. workings.co/publish/posts/…