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- title: "Review: The Boox Palma is the best purchase I've made in a long time - cliophate.wtf"
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Some thoughts here...
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We welcomed baby **Nico** on June 12. He and mama are both healthy and well. Nev's a great big sister, if a little vigorous with her affection at times. It is a big shift, going from double coverage to single, but Claire and I both grew up in four-person households, and something about adding a second kid resonates at a very deep level.
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I took a few weeks off after the birth, but I'm back to work now (mixed feelings on that -- could have taken a longer break). We've been able to do a bit of traveling -- quick trip up to Richmond to see my family, long weekend at Lake Norman with Claire's.
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A coworker at Viget, [Nathan Long][1], publishes a weekly [newsletter][2], and he recently gave me a [little shout][3] and included one of my favorite book quotes:
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> Pay attention, that's all ... Notice things. Connect what you've noticed. Connect it into a picture. Think of how the picture might be changed; and act to change it. Some of your acts may turn our to have been foolish, but others will reward you in surprising ways; and in the meantime, simply by being active instead of passive, you have a kind of immunity that's hard to explain.
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>
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> -- Neal Stephenson, _The Confusion_
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[1]: https://nathan-long.com/
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[2]: https://buttondown.email/nathanlong/archive
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[3]: https://buttondown.email/nathanlong/archive/just-du-it-and-the-legend-of-link/
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My buddy Ken, who records as Carillon, released a [new album called _Venus_][4]. Stream it wherever you stream your streams. He also worked with an animator to make a [music video for one of the songs][5] which is really pretty neat.
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[4]: https://carillon58.bandcamp.com/album/venus
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[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySKeQDWtqA
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We've had a mouse in our house for the last few months. It didn't really bother me, seemed pretty cute and harmless, and I've got ZERO appetite for mouse murder. But eventually he did make his way into our HVAC system and start causing problems, so I did a little bit of research and ordered a few of these [humane traps][6]. Turns out our mouse was actually six mice and counting. Solid product, highly recommended.
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[6]: https://gerossi.com/product/humane-catch-and-release-indoor-outdoor-mouse-traps-pack-of-2/
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I ordered a copy of [Pouch magazine][7], "a new indie magazine for stationery lovers." Really cool if you're into pens and notebooks and things like that -- just very well done. I hope the creator publishes more issues.
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[7]: https://pouchmagazine.com/
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This month:
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* Adventure:
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* Project:
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* Skill:
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* Adventure: nothing major planned for the rest of July, but every day's an adventure with a newborn and a toddler
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* Project: finish Nevie's art table -- I'm a focused 90 minutes away
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* Skill: I want to keep up the music stuff, but I'm not sure what to focus on; I've got a few good books about drum programming and theory I'll dig into, and then just try to jam w/o any specific goals
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Reading:
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* Fiction: [_Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore_][1], Robin Sloan
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* Non-fiction: [_Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers_][2], J. Anthony Allen
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* Fiction: [_Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore_][8], [Robin Sloan][9] -- big fan of this guy's website and just overall vibe
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* Non-fiction: [_Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers_][10], J. Anthony Allen
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[1]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore-robin-sloan/15554054
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[2]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/music-theory-for-electronic-music-producers-the-producer-s-guide-to-harmony-chord-progressions-and-song-structure-in-the-midi-grid-j-anthony-allen/11905226?ean=9781727863024
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[8]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore-robin-sloan/15554054
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[9]: https://www.robinsloan.com/
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[10]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/music-theory-for-electronic-music-producers-the-producer-s-guide-to-harmony-chord-progressions-and-song-structure-in-the-midi-grid-j-anthony-allen/11905226?ean=9781727863024
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Links:
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* [Title][3]
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* [Title][4]
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* [Title][5]
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### Creativity
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[3]: https://example.com/
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[4]: https://example.com/
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[5]: https://example.com/
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* [Midyear in a mid year][11]
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> Writing books, making art, recording music … it’s all a lot easier when you don’t know what you’re doing. Better yet if you don’t know that you don’t know what you’re doing. It’s when you know you don’t know what you’re doing that you’ve got to really get after it.
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This resonates with me -- I've learned a lot about making digital music over the last few months, but in some ways I feel like I'm still trying to get back to the level of the [very first thing I did][12].
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[11]: https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/midyear-in-a-mid-year
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[12]: /journal/dispatch-9-november-2023/#music
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* [Cultivating A Space For The Doing][13]
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> Engineer for yourself the smallest possible environment, concentrated as densely as possible with only the highest quality inputs; explicitly re-route all potential distraction-avenues back to one’s chosen craft, such that even when you’re momentarily doing something else you cannot escape the focus of your craft.
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[13]: https://kylekukshtel.com/francis-bacon-creative-meditation-studio-space
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### Parenting
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* [Give yourself what you needed and your kids what they need][14]
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> On the influence of the unlived lives of parents.
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[14]: https://austinkleon.com/2021/04/01/give-yourself-what-you-needed-and-your-kids-what-they-need/
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* [10 Thoughts From the Fourth Trimester][15]
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> A newborn is not a baby. Babies are cute and roly-poly and can see and are conscious and are normal and a newborn is not any of these things. It is a bizarre human larva that acts super weird and would still be in the womb if it could be.
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[15]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/05/baby.html
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### Gadgets
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* [My Month Without a Smartphone][16]
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> I’m open to be persuaded, but after living life without a smartphone for a month, the case for keeping them out of kids’ hands as long as possible is pretty damn compelling. After all, if adults are as addicted to them as they appear to be, what are the chances young and impressionable kids can fare any better?
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I found this pretty inspiring and I've been rolling with a pretty dumbed-down phone for the last several weeks. It's cut my phone time pretty drastically (and increased my iPad time, though hopefully not as much).
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[16]: https://collabfund.com/blog/my-month-without-a-smartphone/
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* [The Boox Palma is an amazing gadget I didn’t even know I wanted][17]
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> It’s a better Kindle and a better iPod, all in one gadget.
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Seeing a lot of praise for this thing[^1]; it's tempting but I'm skeptical the solution to my issues with technology and consumerism is another piece of electronics.
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[17]: https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-reader
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### AI
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* [I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again][18]
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> I shall answer this as politically as I can ... there are those that have drunk the kool-aid. There are those that have not. And then there are those that are trying to mix up as much kool-aid as possible. I shall let you decide who sits in which basket.
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[18]: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
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* [Dear AI companies, please scrape this website][19]
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> Really, take my work! Go nuts! Make your AI think more like me. Make your AI sound more like me. Make your AI agree with my view of the world more often.
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[19]: https://justin.searls.co/posts/dear-ai-companies-please-scrape-this-website/
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[^1]: See also [Tools & Toys][20], [Justin Searls][21], [cliophate][22]
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[20]: http://toolsandtoys.net/boox-palma-phone-sized-epaper-tablet/
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[21]: https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v15-an-eink-ipod-touch/
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[22]: https://cliophate.wtf/posts/boox-palma-review
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Give yourself what you needed then and give your kids what they need now
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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[12][immutable]
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One of my very favorite lines about being a parent comes from Andrew Solomon’s
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[13]Far From The Tree: “Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we
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give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not.”
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So I was primed for the punch of [14]this thread from Tiersa McQueen ([15]
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@tiersaj):
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[16][tiersa]
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Carl Jung said that nothing had a bigger influence on the child than the
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unlived life of the parent. Those unlived lives linger. (I am struck often by
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ambitions. Most recently, Twyla Tharp, in [17]Twlya Moves, talking about her
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mother, who was a pianist, and groomed her daughter for a life in the arts,
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driving her all over Indiana for lessons, etc.)
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One must be careful to not transfer unwanted dreams onto their children, maybe
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even more so when your children are inclined to doing the things you, too,
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love. (One of my sons loves music and video games, the other loves stories and
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drawing. You can imagine the dreams I have for them, dreams that I find it best
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to keep to myself.)
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It’s a dance. You have to give yourself what you needed, but give your kids
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what they need now. Build the world you always wanted, but make sure there’s
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In short, Haidt argues that smartphones and social media are rewiring our kids’
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brains, which is making them the most distracted, depressed, and fragile
|
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generation in history.
|
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|
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This shouldn’t come as a surprise given that the companies behind smartphones
|
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and apps are highly incentivized to keep us glued to them. Just look at what
|
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Sean Parker, the first president at Facebook, said about the company’s
|
||||
strategy,
|
||||
|
||||
“We wanted to exploit a vulnerability in human psychology. To do so, the apps
|
||||
needed to provide a little dopamine every once and a while to keep you hooked.
|
||||
Me, Mark Zuckerberg, Kevin Systrom (Instagram’s founder), and others knew this
|
||||
and we did it anyway. God only knows what it’s doing to our kids.”
|
||||
|
||||
They knew smartphones were the perfect mechanism for delivering dopamine and
|
||||
somehow convinced parents to willingly provide them to their kids during the
|
||||
most formative part in their lives.
|
||||
|
||||
The results are more than troubling, especially considering smartphones and
|
||||
social media arrived on the scene rough a decade-and-a-half ago.
|
||||
|
||||
From a mental health perspective, the correlation is hard to dispute.
|
||||
|
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Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 3.45.44 PM.png
|
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|
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Gen Z’s reading and math scores also began to decline around the same time (
|
||||
[26]Nation’s Report Card), while many reports indicate that this generation is
|
||||
shyer, more risk averse, and less ambitious than previous generations.
|
||||
|
||||
Are smartphones and social media 100% to blame?
|
||||
|
||||
Maybe, maybe not, but it sure feels like they are at least a significant part
|
||||
of the problem.
|
||||
|
||||
Knowing this, and recognizing that I have two young boys who are going to be
|
||||
begging for smartphones in a couple years, I asked myself,
|
||||
|
||||
“How am I supposed to tell them that they can’t get one if I am on mine all the
|
||||
time?”
|
||||
|
||||
So, I did something a bit odd — I went out and bought a flip phone.
|
||||
|
||||
That’s right, a flip phone. This is it.
|
||||
|
||||
Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 3.45.53 PM.png
|
||||
|
||||
Anyone over the age of 40 remembers it. Basic screen, grainy pictures, no
|
||||
email, no apps, multiple clicks to text one letter, and most importantly, no
|
||||
social media.
|
||||
|
||||
When I turned it on for the first time, it felt like traveling back in time.
|
||||
|
||||
I used it for a month and here are my biggest takeaways:
|
||||
|
||||
1. I was significantly less distracted
|
||||
Think about the last time you were waiting in line for lunch, to catch the
|
||||
subway, or at a stoplight. Did you reach for your phone? How about the last
|
||||
time you were out to dinner. Did you check a text when someone you were with
|
||||
went to the bathroom, or worse, in the middle of your conversation? You have.
|
||||
We all have. A flip phone liberated me from this.\
|
||||
|
||||
2. I could focus for longer periods of time
|
||||
I was able to truly concentrate. This meant doing things like reading long-form
|
||||
articles and books, working on projects, and writing without being distracted
|
||||
by a meaningless alert.
|
||||
|
||||
3. I was more aware
|
||||
Not having a smartphone myself enabled me to observe how many people walk, or
|
||||
even drive, around with their phones eight inches from their faces – on the
|
||||
subway, in the elevator, at red lights, on the sidewalks, and even crossing
|
||||
busy intersections. The more I noticed this, the more I realized how bizarre it
|
||||
is. In fact, I kept thinking to myself, if someone took a decades-long nap like
|
||||
Rip Van Winkle and woke up today, what in the world would they make of this
|
||||
phenomenon?
|
||||
|
||||
4. I was bored more often
|
||||
I was bored a lot, but you know what? I actually enjoyed it. Being bored forces
|
||||
you to think and to “be in your own head”, which are both incredibly
|
||||
refreshing. As a friend reminded me, our generation used to be bored all the
|
||||
time as kids, especially during things like long car rides and you know what we
|
||||
did? We invented and created ways to entertain ourselves. Our kids could use
|
||||
more of this. Hell, all of us could.
|
||||
|
||||
5. I found that some ignorance can be bliss
|
||||
Humans are not meant to have instant access to so much information. Yet, due to
|
||||
smartphones, we do, which is creating a “[27]filtering effect”. As a result, we
|
||||
are gravitating to extremes — reading about wars in far flung places is making
|
||||
us more fearful back home, seeing reports of rare child abductions is causing
|
||||
parents to restrict their kids’ freedom to wander even the safest
|
||||
neighborhoods, watching airbrushed Instagram’s and TikTok’s is convincing kids
|
||||
their lives are miserable, and searching WebMD for generic headaches is making
|
||||
us think we have brain tumors. My takeaway? Being a bit “in the dark” can be a
|
||||
very healthy thing.
|
||||
|
||||
6. I was more engaged with people, my wife and kids in particular This was my
|
||||
biggest takeaway. I was more engaged with everyone I came in touch with. I
|
||||
talked to my Uber drivers more, chatted with people in the elevator, and was
|
||||
generally friendlier. Most importantly, my wife and kids noticed. In fact, my
|
||||
older son actually said to me recently,
|
||||
|
||||
“Dad, can you believe how much time other people spend on their phones?”
|
||||
|
||||
“Other people” — what a difference a month can make.
|
||||
|
||||
Now I will say, while this month without a smartphone has been liberating in
|
||||
numerous ways, it was not without its issues or drawbacks:
|
||||
|
||||
For instance, managing my calendar wasn’t easy, I was forced to print out paper
|
||||
tickets for flights and sporting events, and I had to go back to ordering my
|
||||
morning coffee in person.
|
||||
|
||||
I also gained an even deeper appreciation for an app like Waze after getting
|
||||
stuck in significant traffic driving home from my son’s practice because I
|
||||
couldn’t see that there was an accident on the beltway.
|
||||
|
||||
There were some things that fell in the “mixed bag” category as well:
|
||||
|
||||
While I was less distracted, I missed my group texts given that my flip phone
|
||||
only allowed up to four people on a text.
|
||||
|
||||
Access to emails, in moderation, is also likely a net positive of smartphones
|
||||
as it enables us to have more flexibility in their careers and lives.
|
||||
|
||||
Cameras are a bit dicier. I originally thought they were a “nice to have”.
|
||||
However, after experiencing a month without one, it made me wonder why we are
|
||||
choosing to live life like this,
|
||||
|
||||
Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 3.46.02 PM.png
|
||||
|
||||
When we could be living like this.
|
||||
|
||||
Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 3.46.09 PM.png
|
||||
|
||||
Takeaways
|
||||
|
||||
I’m open to be persuaded, but after living life without a smartphone for a
|
||||
month, the case for keeping them out of kids’ hands as long as possible is
|
||||
pretty damn compelling. Afterall, if adults are as addicted to them as they
|
||||
appear to be, what are the chances young and impressionable kids can fare any
|
||||
better?
|
||||
|
||||
So, what would I suggest?
|
||||
|
||||
1. A Detox
|
||||
Try it for a week, a month, or more. It was liberating. “Detoxing” provided a
|
||||
great perspective on just how distracted kids must be with these things, how
|
||||
much less distracted they would be without them, and what life used to be like
|
||||
before we all became addicted.
|
||||
|
||||
2. Cut out the non-productive apps
|
||||
It is ironic, but if the Blackberry got the nickname “Crackberry” because of
|
||||
its addictive nature, these modern smartphones are straight up heroin.
|
||||
|
||||
They don’t need to be though.
|
||||
|
||||
This is what my iPhone used to look like:
|
||||
|
||||
Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 3.46.16 PM.png
|
||||
|
||||
This is what my iPhone looks like today.
|
||||
|
||||
Screenshot 2024-06-09 at 3.46.22 PM.png
|
||||
|
||||
Twelve apps, all of which are relatively productive. Also, I found this
|
||||
grayscale feature that has made the phone infinitely less interesting, and yes,
|
||||
boring…which is a good thing.
|
||||
|
||||
The result?
|
||||
|
||||
My daily usage is down more than 75%, I don’t feel myself reaching for it
|
||||
nearly as much, and most importantly, my kids don’t see me on it very often (or
|
||||
at least they have said anything yet…).\
|
||||
|
||||
3. Incentivize Kids to Not Use Phones in School
|
||||
I am in no place to tell anyone what to do with their kids. That said, I think
|
||||
the evidence is pretty compelling in favor of finding ways to limit smartphone
|
||||
usage during the school day for many of the reasons I have highlighted. Even
|
||||
more compelling is the fact that most kids don’t even seem to want them there,
|
||||
so long as that means NO ONE has them at school.
|
||||
|
||||
Look no further than a recent study led by the University of Chicago economist
|
||||
Leonardo Bursztyn that captured the dynamics of this social-media trap.
|
||||
|
||||
Bustztyn recruited more than a thousand college students and asked them how
|
||||
much they would need to be paid to deactivate their accounts on either
|
||||
Instagram or TikTok for a month. On average, students required roughly $50 ($59
|
||||
for TikTok, $47 for Instagram) to deactivate whichever platform they were asked
|
||||
about.
|
||||
|
||||
Next, the experimenters added a wrinkle to the question. They asked,
|
||||
|
||||
“If we are successful in getting your classmates to deactivate as well, would
|
||||
that change the price you would require to deactivate your phone?”
|
||||
|
||||
The typical response stunned the researchers. Not only did the price change, on
|
||||
average the students said they would be willing to PAY the experimenters to
|
||||
deactivate their Instagram and Tik Tok accounts if their classmates did as
|
||||
well.
|
||||
|
||||
More recently, I spoke with someone who ran an Outward Bound trip for middle
|
||||
school students and conducted a survey after the trip. Care to guess what the
|
||||
kids voted was the best part about the trip?
|
||||
|
||||
Being in nature? Rock climbing? Sleeping in tents? Fishing?
|
||||
|
||||
Nope.
|
||||
|
||||
The top response was being away from their phones.
|
||||
|
||||
So, what, if any, investment implications should come from this?
|
||||
|
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That’s for a later date.
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Really, take my work! Go nuts! Make your AI think more like me. Make your AI
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The entire reason I create shit is so that others will take it! To share ideas
|
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|
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I want OpenAI or Apple or whoever to feed everything I say into their AI
|
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|
||||
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|
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|
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I'm not going to have children. I don't believe in God. I know that as soon as
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|
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So I make stuff! And it'd be kinda neat if that stuff lived on for a little
|
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|
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|
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|
||||
millions of people read their writing, watch their videos, or appreciate their
|
||||
artwork, they'd be thrilled. But as soon as the topic of that work being thrown
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
Is it that AI will mangle and degrade the purity of their work? My whole
|
||||
career, I've watched humans take my work, make it their own (often in ways that
|
||||
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|
||||
Justin Searls thinks.
|
||||
|
||||
Is it the lack of attribution? Because I've found that, "humans leveraging my
|
||||
work without giving me credit," is an awfully long-winded way to pronounce
|
||||
"open source."
|
||||
|
||||
Is it a manifestation of a broader fear that their creative medium will be
|
||||
devalued as a commodity in this new era of [31]AI slop? Because my appreciation
|
||||
for human creativity has actually increased since the dawn of generative AI—as
|
||||
its output gravitates towards the global median, the resulting deluge of
|
||||
literally-mediocre content has only served to highlight the extraordinary-ness
|
||||
of humans who produce exceptional work.
|
||||
|
||||
For once, I'm not trying to be needlessly provocative. The above is an honest
|
||||
reflection of my initial and sustained reaction to the prospect of my work
|
||||
landing in a bunch of currently-half-cocked-but-maybe-some-day-full-cocked AI
|
||||
training sets. I figured I'd post this angle, because it sure seems like The
|
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Discourse on this issue is universally one-sided in its opposition.
|
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|
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Anyway, you heard that right Sam, Sundar, Tim, and Satya: please, scrape this
|
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website to your heart's content.
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|
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[32]Backing up a step
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|
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A lot of people whose income depends on creating content, making decisions, or
|
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performing administrative tasks are quite rightly worried about generative AI
|
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and to what extent it poses a threat to that income. Numerous jobs that could
|
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previously be counted on to provide a comfortable—even affluent—lifestyle would
|
||||
now be very difficult to recommend as a career path to someone just starting
|
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out. Even if the AI boosters claiming we're a hair's breadth away from [33]AGI
|
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turn out to be dead wrong, these tools can perform numerous valuable tasks
|
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already, so the spectre of AI can't simply be hand-waved away. This is a
|
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serious issue and it's understandable that discussions around it can quickly
|
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become emotionally charged for those affected.
|
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|
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But it also feels like on an individual basis, it's hard to make out what AI
|
||||
skeptics (for lack of a better term) actually propose we do about any of this,
|
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especially if you narrow it down to solutions that have even a remote chance of
|
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materializing.
|
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|
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People's negative reactions to Apple's keynote seemed to fall into three
|
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buckets:
|
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|
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• Hope that industry regulation meaningfully halts the development and
|
||||
proliferation of AI tools, effectively requiring worldwide coordination
|
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among world leaders in an era marked by global conflict and strained
|
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alliances
|
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• Hope that social policies guaranteeing the well-being of people whose
|
||||
income might be displaced by AI (e.g. subsidized job retraining, universal
|
||||
basic income) are adopted, requiring a flurry of progressive, pro-social
|
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policies to pass amid a seemingly global rightward lurch politically
|
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• Hope that companies like Apple take the high road and reject the adoption
|
||||
of AI, even though this would inevitably result in their stock price (and
|
||||
therefore, executive compensation and employee retention) dropping off a
|
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cliff. It could also invite an existential threat if competitors were to
|
||||
introduce game-changing AI-powered capabilities (requiring further hope
|
||||
that consumers, in turn, take the high road and reject those competitors in
|
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solidarity with the interests of labor)
|
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|
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Real talk: each of the above scenarios are so laughably unlikely that I
|
||||
struggled to get through typing all that.
|
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|
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As a former colleague of mine once quipped after joining an overly optimistic
|
||||
software team that thought they were crushing and/or killing it but who in fact
|
||||
didn't have a prayer of meeting any of their deadlines before running out of
|
||||
funding, "there's a lot of hope in this room… and I don't like it!"
|
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|
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If you're clinging to hopes like those above and you like your odds, then
|
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that's great. I wish I shared your optimism. But it's always seemed to me that
|
||||
pinning my future on widespread collective action to solve problems that affect
|
||||
me personally—and in a timely-enough manner for it to make a difference—is a
|
||||
risky strategy. Especially if it comes at the expense of taking control of my
|
||||
own destiny by planning for the change so as to protect my interests.
|
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|
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[34]This isn't the career I wanted
|
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|
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Let's talk about AI and jobs. I [35]wrote about this topic years and years ago,
|
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back in March of 2023. I think the post holds up. I wonder how long it will.
|
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|
||||
More relevant to today's discussion, I suspect many people expressing outrage
|
||||
about AI features showing up on the iPhone feel a deep-seated fear that their
|
||||
livelihood might be under threat by AI. For anyone that feels that fear, the
|
||||
best advice I can offer is to figure out how to protect your own interests in a
|
||||
rapidly changing world. As soon as possible. Today, if you have time.
|
||||
|
||||
All I can offer is my story and what worked for me, but I'll admit I had the
|
||||
benefit of a 20-year jump on most people in thinking about how my white collar
|
||||
dream jobs would be at risk of being rendered obsolete by software before I
|
||||
turned 40.
|
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|
||||
Contrary to the impression I left on everyone I've put to sleep at cocktail
|
||||
parties in response to being asked, "So what do you do?", I actually never
|
||||
intended to build my career on quixotic attempts to remediate the
|
||||
hopelessly-broken integration test suites of massive banks and insurance
|
||||
companies.
|
||||
|
||||
At first, I wanted to write about the video game industry.
|
||||
|
||||
Then, I wanted to work as a translator in Japan.
|
||||
|
||||
Then, I wanted to go into intellectual property law.
|
||||
|
||||
But as soon as I took even a few steps in any of these directions, the risk of
|
||||
my own replaceability became apparent. Palpable, even. It felt obvious to me,
|
||||
at least as far back as the first half of the 2000s, that each of these jobs
|
||||
depended on structural inefficiencies that "the market" would seek to correct
|
||||
over a short enough time horizon that it would threaten my ability to
|
||||
successfully pursue a financially secure, decades-long career.
|
||||
|
||||
My greatest career-planning asset has always been that I'm allergic to the
|
||||
sensation that what I'm doing is replaceable. If the work is repetitive, then
|
||||
it can be automated. If the work doesn't require any skills that I uniquely
|
||||
bring to the table, then someone else could do it. If the work isn't creating
|
||||
monetary value for someone, then it's only a matter of time until that someone
|
||||
figures out how to stop paying me for it.
|
||||
|
||||
If you don't have that allergic reaction yet, I recommend developing it. If my
|
||||
recently-manifested hay fever is any indication, it's never too late to pick up
|
||||
a new allergy.
|
||||
|
||||
I wound up as a software consultant by process of elimination of a dozen things
|
||||
I'd rather have been doing. I'll go further: I'm not sure I've ever enjoyed a
|
||||
single day of work in my life. I'll stay up as late as my body allows if it
|
||||
means staving off work the next day a little longer. Every weekend, I'd feel
|
||||
miserable by 3pm on Saturday because I'd realize the next day was Sunday and
|
||||
that's the day I spend dreading that work starts again on Monday. Maybe if I
|
||||
had scored one of my dream jobs, I'd have felt differently. At the end of the
|
||||
day, I'm grateful that my overriding fear of financial ruin was so strong that
|
||||
it compelled me to get my ass out of bed in order to go do things that I
|
||||
generally hated doing.
|
||||
|
||||
Then why do it? I'll never forget what I told my advisor in college who asked
|
||||
me the same thing: "because software developers will be the ones to turn off
|
||||
the lights behind them as the door closes on the American middle class."
|
||||
|
||||
Fucking yikes.
|
||||
|
||||
[36]Why I didn't write about video games
|
||||
|
||||
Despite contributing to websites with hundreds of thousands of monthly page
|
||||
views while I was still in middle school, I realized almost immediately how
|
||||
frustrating and fragile advertising income was and how challenging it would be
|
||||
to get customers to pay for my content when free alternatives were effectively
|
||||
infinite. I absolutely loved writing about games and found the palace intrigue
|
||||
of what was going on inside publishers and development studios to be oddly
|
||||
titillating. I could imagine breaking out on my own and developing a compelling
|
||||
editorial voice to demystify the game industry for other fans, and it seemed
|
||||
like it would be a ton of fun.
|
||||
|
||||
But making content itself my core work product always felt self-defeating. Free
|
||||
content garners far more attention than content hidden behind a paywall, but
|
||||
the only way anyone would discover that paid content (or that it's worth paying
|
||||
for in the first place) is, ironically, free content. As a result, it's no
|
||||
surprise that the people who are most successful at selling paid content
|
||||
actually give their best content away for free.
|
||||
|
||||
And I don't want to pay for someone's half-assed scraps when they give away
|
||||
their best work for free. Telling people to pay for a subscription to anything
|
||||
less than my best work would create the risk that subscribers would think it's
|
||||
a bait-and-switch. And they'd be right. Because that's exactly what it would
|
||||
be.
|
||||
|
||||
The Internet is too big and life is too short to settle for anything less than
|
||||
someone's best work. As a result, I resolved at the ripe old age of 17 that I'd
|
||||
never allow myself to depend on income generated by asking people to pay me for
|
||||
my ideas. The reason I was interested in creating things at all was to reach as
|
||||
many people as possible, and the prospect of denying people access to that work
|
||||
in order to make a living was wholly misaligned with what drove me.
|
||||
|
||||
No matter how fun it might have been, the fact that my livelihood would depend
|
||||
on the scarcity of information in a world where the availability of information
|
||||
was spreading like wildfire presented a risk I couldn't fathom staking my
|
||||
financial future on.
|
||||
|
||||
[37]Why I'm not living in Japan as a translator
|
||||
|
||||
It's hard to imagine now, but the spirit of international exchange was
|
||||
overwhelming when I first stepped foot in Japan in 2005. The small city I lived
|
||||
in had opened an "international lounge" for foreign guests to get information
|
||||
from multilingual civil servants, replete with refreshments and
|
||||
Internet-connected computers. The town had a miniscule population of English
|
||||
and Brazillian Portugese speaking residents, but nevertheless employed a team
|
||||
at city hall who translated every single document, instruction manual, and
|
||||
newsletter into both languages (I remember being asked to help them translate a
|
||||
guide on how to procure and register a [38]hanko stamp from Portugese into
|
||||
English). On one occasion, I was tapped to accompany an American jazz group as
|
||||
an English-speaking guide and not-very-good interpreter who was visiting the
|
||||
city to play a concert at a cross-cultural fair at the local public university.
|
||||
|
||||
These were all incredible experiences and they left an idealistic imprint on
|
||||
me. If I really dedicated myself to learning Japanese, I could make a
|
||||
meaningful difference by fostering connections across cultural boundaries. I
|
||||
could put some good into the world.
|
||||
|
||||
But as soon as I put my "career planning" hat on, I realized this was folly.
|
||||
Already, people were walking around with [39]electronic dictionaries, and it
|
||||
was clear that Internet-connected smartphones were just around the corner. How
|
||||
long until phones had microphones that could interpret speech better than I
|
||||
could? Or a camera that could decode the Chinese characters that would take
|
||||
years for me to learn? Who would pay to have their website translated if a
|
||||
browser could eventually do it automatically?
|
||||
|
||||
My interest in work as a translator and interpreter was driven by a desire to
|
||||
promote cross-cultural understanding, but I wasn't an idiot: I knew the thing
|
||||
people would be paying for is to transform a series of words in one language
|
||||
into a series of words in another language. As soon as a technology could do a
|
||||
"good enough" job at that, I'd be unemployed and stranded halfway across the
|
||||
world with no other marketable skills to offer.
|
||||
|
||||
[40]Why I didn't become a lawyer
|
||||
|
||||
There was a brief time in college after I found out how much money intellectual
|
||||
property lawyers made that I seriously thought about it. I was telling a friend
|
||||
about this when he said that his dad was an I.P. lawyer… and how much he hated
|
||||
his life. That it was painfully monotonous. That every day was spent reviewing
|
||||
the same documents, negotiating the same conversations with clients and
|
||||
opposing counsel, and making the same basic decisions.
|
||||
|
||||
While I have several friends who are lawyers, the profession has long
|
||||
represented a twisted form of rent-seeking. By gatekeeping sacred knowledge and
|
||||
arcane ways of contorting the English language, it always felt to me that the
|
||||
market value of many lawyers was derived from the time and money they had
|
||||
invested up front to become a lawyer, as opposed to being rooted in the
|
||||
ingenuity of their work actually lawyering.
|
||||
|
||||
Almost as soon as I started thinking about going into law, endless worries
|
||||
followed. If a bunch of people graduate law school after me, wouldn't that
|
||||
undercut my negotiating power with my firm? Wouldn't new tools like [41]OCR and
|
||||
"eDiscovery" (that is, using computer search indices to pore through tens of
|
||||
thousands of documents instead of dozens of lawyers and paralegals doing it by
|
||||
hand) drastically reduce the number of humans that law firms would need to
|
||||
employ? And legal expenses are almost always a cost center for clients, so
|
||||
wouldn't they drop their lawyers the minute a tool came along that allowed them
|
||||
to navigate the dark art of contract language on their own?
|
||||
|
||||
Staking so much of my income on a status that I'd attained as opposed to the
|
||||
value of my work itself always felt incredibly tenuous to me. So I didn't do
|
||||
it.
|
||||
|
||||
[42]Why I became a software consultant.
|
||||
|
||||
Because software was the thing I was imagining would undermine all these other
|
||||
professions, I found myself resigned to a, "if you can't beat'em, join 'em,"
|
||||
mindset. I became a software consultant on a mission to immerse myself in the
|
||||
most complicated systems and asinine bureaucracies as a form of exposure
|
||||
therapy. To learn how to better navigate a world that was beginning to buckle
|
||||
under the weight of bad software.
|
||||
|
||||
My very first client wanted to automate a bunch of corporate IT provisioning
|
||||
tasks (adding, freezing, suspending accounts; assigning access controls; etc.)
|
||||
into workflows that would drastically reduce the amount of manpower those tasks
|
||||
currently took. They were willing to pay my employer's extremely high
|
||||
consulting rates because they wagered one egregiously expensive year
|
||||
implementing all this would pay for itself by saving themselves many more years
|
||||
of salary and benefits for a team of employees to do it all by hand. It was
|
||||
technically fascinating stuff, full of hard problems, yadda yadda, but we all
|
||||
knew the score. The more successful my work was, the sooner people would lose
|
||||
their jobs.
|
||||
|
||||
My second client received tens of thousands of pieces of mail each day, and was
|
||||
currently paying dozens of people to staff an off-site scanning facility to
|
||||
open, prep, categorize, scan, and forward the mail manually. I was tasked with
|
||||
developing an OCR system to eliminate data entry of standardized forms and an
|
||||
[43]OMR solution to automatically forward each piece of mail to the right
|
||||
department. I worked side-by-side with the employees of that off-site scanning
|
||||
facility. Even though reducing headcount was an expressly stated goal of the
|
||||
project, I never got the sense that anybody thought the new system might
|
||||
eliminate their job—only someone else's. Witnessing that cognitive dissonance
|
||||
was bizarre, and only made flying cross-country each week even more depressing.
|
||||
(Of course, it was only a few more years until customers stopped sending mail
|
||||
at all, so the project only really served to accelerate the inevitable.)
|
||||
|
||||
I have more stories.
|
||||
|
||||
The reason software consulting made sense to me as a career choice was
|
||||
threefold:
|
||||
|
||||
1. Every company was coming to rely on software and that dependence was
|
||||
clearly self-reinforcing (the more software they implemented, the more
|
||||
software they would need), which meant a client's need for software would
|
||||
never be sated
|
||||
2. Software created under typical market conditions (prioritizing cost, speed,
|
||||
and capability over maintainability) meant that it would be a
|
||||
rapidly-depreciating asset at best and an outright liability at worst,
|
||||
which meant no such piece of software would ever be "done"
|
||||
3. If something like AI were to come along that could generate working code,
|
||||
the upper bound on that code's quality would probably mirror the garbage
|
||||
that most human programmers produced, which means it would only exacerbate
|
||||
the prior two conditions
|
||||
|
||||
It seemed to me like learning how to navigate messy, hard-to-maintain, high
|
||||
entropy codebases that generated business value but also required ongoing
|
||||
changes would provide enough work to occupy several lifetimes. I was betting
|
||||
that software would always be shitty and that there'd always be demand for more
|
||||
of it. Pessimistic as it was, I feel comfortable declaring that I won that bet.
|
||||
If you got into this racket around the same time and for the same reasons,
|
||||
you've got a job for life.
|
||||
|
||||
[44]What did I just read?
|
||||
|
||||
Does this mean I joined the dark side? That's a valid interpretation. I prefer
|
||||
to think major technological revolutions are unlikely to be stopped, so the
|
||||
only reasonable course of action is to figure out how to adapt to whatever
|
||||
changes those revolutions bring.
|
||||
|
||||
Rather than try to force the ocean to be still, it's always seemed to make more
|
||||
sense to learn to ride the waves instead. And if my public-facing work has done
|
||||
anyone else any good at learning how to ride those waves, then I'm happy to
|
||||
call that my penance. To that ends, if you've read this far and want some
|
||||
personalized advice for navigating the current moment, [45]drop me a line and I
|
||||
promise that I will read it and reply.
|
||||
|
||||
So scrape away, tech giants. If your AI successfully manages to clone my
|
||||
writing, speaking, video, and coding abilities then I'll thank you for saving
|
||||
me the effort and go ride the next wave to come along. 🏄♂️
|
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more ways than one. It started a bit with [11]discovering this piece on him:
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What would have happened to Bacon’s career had he been subscribed to nine
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podcasts? Had he been posting his work to Instagram, and Facebook, and
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Twitter? Pressure would have leaked from the pressure cooker and the
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violence of his work would have dissipated. We can debate how much the
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violence would dissipate, but I’m utterly convinced that it would have to
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dissipate—other things equal.
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I’ve been working slowly in the background on what’s next after Cantata so the
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cultivating your pressure cooker of ideas. In Bacon’s case it was his studio
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thinking a lot about the ways of making what’s next and how to cultivate that
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I remember some really great photos from [12]Might & Delight’s studio:
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Picture of a bridge surrounded by trees with green leaves
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Netflix’s Gears of War will shoot for The Last of Us’s video game TV adaptation
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crown | British GQ
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is like an open-world, playable Game of Thrones | The
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Engineer for yourself the smallest possible environment, concentrated as
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the focus of your craft.
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spaces. Gentle thoughts will dissipate in loud spaces, just as loud thoughts
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The clothes in Francis Bacon’s paintings are as fascinating as the subjects |
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Studio | Francis Bacon
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The morning’s HN browse [15]then put this article on my radar (“Artists must be
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allowed to make bad work”), which contains some video interviews of Bacon I
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started watching but then realized I needed to get a lot of work done and would
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have to postpone. Their own quote though is relevant to the “pressure cooker”
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idea from above:
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There is a tendency in our society to be wedded to the new, to be wedded to
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tendency — which I think we’ve got from America, and which I think is a bad
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tendency, to measure every artist by his last exhibition. “So and so’s no
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good, look at his last show!” The fact that he had five previous shows,
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which were very good, doesn’t seem to matter. It gets forgotten too
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quickly. And somehow the snap judgement on what one has just done, this
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kind of pressure it puts on is very dangerous, because artists must be
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allowed to go through bad periods
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Again this sense of cultivation but also resiliency, that the practice and
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doing (thanks Jay!) needs to be more about sustainability and craft instead of
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practice-as-art.
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I remember reading or hearing something recently about someone that was very
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anti studio-tours from similarly articulated reasons. They sort of feel good in
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the moment but are a distraction and start to produce weird forces onto the
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space itself. From the earlier article:
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Bring in nothing but the finest inputs, and focus every possible
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attentional pathway back into the work at hand.
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Studio visits are bad inputs. Social media validation is a bad input.
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To quote the perpetually-inconvenient [16]adn:
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Game Quality is all that matters
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From here we take then a final trip to our Bacon rodeo with a recent episode of
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the 301 Permanently Moved: [17]Embrace Cadence, Find Rhythm. Again, very weird
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that this whole sort of thought circle happened in the span of a few hours,
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without me proactively following up on any of it. Just a few different
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independent browse-seshes that resulted in parallel thoughts.
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Now [the artist plants] a garden.
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For it is there the work can flourish on home soil. Let their creations
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grow roots in persistent mediums. Deep soil of blogs and web domains. The
|
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artist can plant seeds here and watch them flourish. It is from this garden
|
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sheltered from virtual storms that the artist can do the work that
|
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transcends popular concern.
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Do not let the garden be overrun by weeds, The needs of retweets, likes and
|
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follows are unhelpful allies. Resist the siren’s call of engagement from
|
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beyond the sea. Pursue authenticity. Know thyself; for in the depths of
|
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you, the purest art is born.
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The work at first may flourish. Bear generous fruit, enjoyed by both the
|
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artist and the audience. But beware, however long or brief the blooming, it
|
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will lose its lustre. Guests will leave and once again the artist will find
|
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themselves all alone. They must return to work, sowing and pruning, finding
|
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fulfilment in the doing.
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Do not tolerate visitors seeking to grade and critique, for in ones own
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garden there is never best in show.
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Happy Tuesday everyone!
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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
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Published on June 19, 2024
|
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|
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The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4,
|
||||
obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian
|
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eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists
|
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in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself.
|
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|
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I myself have formal training as a data scientist, [2]going so far as to
|
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dominate a competitive machine learning event at one of Australia's top
|
||||
universities and writing a Master's thesis where I wrote all my own libraries
|
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from scratch in MATLAB. I'm not God's gift to the field, but I am clearly
|
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better than most of my competition - that is, practitioners like myself who
|
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haven't put in the reps to build their own C libraries in a cave with scraps,
|
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but can read textbooks, implement known solutions in high-level languages, and
|
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use libraries written by elite institutions.
|
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|
||||
So it is with great regret that I announce that the next person to talk about
|
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rolling out AI is going to receive a complimentary chiropractic adjustment in
|
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the style of Dr. Bourne, i.e, I am going to fucking break your neck. I am
|
||||
truly, deeply, sorry.
|
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|
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I. But We Will Realize Untold Efficiencies With Machine L-
|
||||
|
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What the fuck did I just say?
|
||||
|
||||
I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that
|
||||
while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders
|
||||
that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for
|
||||
thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years
|
||||
of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entirely AI focused.
|
||||
The number of companies launching AI initiatives far outstripped the number of
|
||||
actual use cases. Most of the market was simply grifters and incompetents
|
||||
(sometimes both!) leveraging the hype to inflate their headcount so they could
|
||||
get promoted, or be seen as thought leaders^[3]1.
|
||||
|
||||
The money was phenomenal, but I nonetheless fled for the safer waters of data
|
||||
and software engineering. You see, while hype is nice, it's only nice in small
|
||||
bursts for practitioners. We have a few key things that a grifter does not
|
||||
have, such as job stability, genuine friendships, and souls. What we do not
|
||||
have is the ability to trivially switch fields the moment the gold rush is
|
||||
over, due to the sad fact that we actually need to study things and build
|
||||
experience. Grifters, on the other hand, wield the omnitool that they
|
||||
self-aggrandizingly call 'politics'^[4]2. That is to say, it turns out that the
|
||||
core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually
|
||||
deliver is highly transferable.
|
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|
||||
I left the field, as did most of my smarter friends, and my salary continued to
|
||||
rise a reasonable rate and sustainably as I learned the wisdom of our ancient
|
||||
forebearers. You can hear it too, on freezing nights under the pale moon, when
|
||||
the fire burns low and the trees loom like hands of sinister ghosts all around
|
||||
you - when the wind cuts through the howling of what you hope is a wolf and
|
||||
hair stands on end, you can strain your ears and barely make out:
|
||||
|
||||
"Just Use Postgres, You Nerd. You Dweeb."
|
||||
|
||||
The data science jobs began to evaporate, and the hype cycle moved on from all
|
||||
those AI initiatives which failed to make any progress, and started to inch
|
||||
towards data engineering. This was a signal that I had both predicted correctly
|
||||
and that it would be time to move on soon. At least, I thought, all that AI
|
||||
stuff was finally done, and we might move on to actually getting something
|
||||
accomplished.
|
||||
|
||||
And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look
|
||||
at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and
|
||||
breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add
|
||||
chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry
|
||||
hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to
|
||||
visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of
|
||||
the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they
|
||||
are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.
|
||||
|
||||
II. But We Need AI To Remain Comp-
|
||||
|
||||
Sweet merciful Jesus, stop talking. Unless you are one of a tiny handful of
|
||||
businesses who know exactly what they're going to use AI for, you do not need
|
||||
AI for anything - or rather, you do not need to do anything to reap the
|
||||
benefits. Artificial intelligence, as it exists and is useful now, is probably
|
||||
already baked into your businesses software supply chain. Your managed security
|
||||
provider is probably using some algorithms baked up in a lab software to detect
|
||||
anomalous traffic, and here's a secret, they didn't do much AI work either,
|
||||
they bought software from the tiny sector of the market that actually does need
|
||||
to do employ data scientists. I know you want to be the next Steve Jobs, and
|
||||
this requires you to get on stages and talk about your innovative prowess, but
|
||||
none of this will allow you to pull off a turtle neck, and even if it did, you
|
||||
would need to replace your sweaters with fullplate to survive my onslaught.
|
||||
|
||||
Consider the fact that most companies are unable to successfully develop and
|
||||
deploy the simplest of CRUD applications on time and under budget. This is a
|
||||
solved problem - with smart people who can collaborate and provide reasonable
|
||||
requirements, a competent team will knock this out of the park every single
|
||||
time, admittedly with some amount of frustration. The clients I work with now
|
||||
are all like this - even if they are totally non-technical, we have a mutual
|
||||
respect for the other party's intelligence, and then we do this crazy thing
|
||||
where we solve problems together. I may not know anything about the nuance of
|
||||
building analytics systems for drug rehabilitation research, but through the
|
||||
power of talking to each other like adults, we somehow solve problems.
|
||||
|
||||
But most companies can't do this, because they are operationally and culturally
|
||||
crippled. The median stay for an engineer will be something between one to two
|
||||
years, so the organization suffers from institutional retrograde amnesia. Every
|
||||
so often, some dickhead says something like "Maybe we should revoke the
|
||||
engineering team's remote work privile - whoa, wait, why did all the best
|
||||
engineers leave?". Whenever there is a ransomware attack, it is revealed with
|
||||
clockwork precision that no one has tested the backups for six months and half
|
||||
the legacy systems cannot be resuscitated - something that I have personally
|
||||
seen twice in four fucking years. Do you know how insane that is?
|
||||
|
||||
Most organizations cannot ship the most basic applications imaginable with any
|
||||
consistency, and you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive
|
||||
is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more
|
||||
sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no
|
||||
experience hiring for, when the organization has never used a GPU for anything
|
||||
other than junior engineers playing video games with their camera off during
|
||||
standup, and even if you do that all right there is a chance that the problem
|
||||
is simply unsolvable due to the characteristics of your data and business? This
|
||||
isn't a recipe for disaster, it's a cookbook for someone looking to prepare a
|
||||
twelve course fucking catastrophe.
|
||||
|
||||
How about you remain competitive by fixing your shit? I've met a lead data
|
||||
scientist with access to hundreds of thousands of sensitive customer records
|
||||
who is allowed to keep their password in a text file on their desktop, and
|
||||
you're worried that customers are best served by using AI to improve security
|
||||
through some mechanism that you haven't even come up with yet? You sound like
|
||||
an asshole and I'm going to kick you in the jaw until, to the relief of
|
||||
everyone, a doctor will have to wire it shut, giving us ten seconds of blessed
|
||||
silence where we can solve actual problems.
|
||||
|
||||
III. We've Already Seen Extensive Gains From-
|
||||
|
||||
When I was younger, I read R.A Salvatore's classic fantasy novel, The Crystal
|
||||
Shard. There is a scene in it where the young protagonist, Wulfgar, challenges
|
||||
a barbarian chieftain to a duel for control of the clan so that he can lead his
|
||||
people into a war that will save the world. The fight culminates with Wulfgar
|
||||
throwing away his weapon, grabbing the chief's head with bare hands, and
|
||||
begging the chief to surrender so that he does not need to crush a skull like
|
||||
an egg and become a murderer.
|
||||
|
||||
Well this is me. Begging you. To stop lying. I don't want to crush your skull,
|
||||
I really don't.
|
||||
|
||||
But I will if you make me.
|
||||
|
||||
Yesterday, I was shown [5]Scale's "2024 AI Readiness Report". It has this chart
|
||||
in it:
|
||||
|
||||
Scale Report.png
|
||||
|
||||
How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen
|
||||
failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people
|
||||
think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits
|
||||
during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that
|
||||
generative AI specifically has been assisting with strategic decision making?
|
||||
What the actual fuck are you talking about? GPT-4 can't even write coherent
|
||||
Elixir, presumably because the dataset was too small to get it to the level
|
||||
that it's at for Python^[6]3, and you're admitting that you outsource your
|
||||
decisionmaking to [7]the thing that sometimes tells people to brew lethal
|
||||
toxins for their families to consume? What does that even mean?
|
||||
|
||||
I don't believe you. No one with a brain believes you, and if your board
|
||||
believes what you just wrote on the survey then they should fire you. I finally
|
||||
understand why some of my friends feel that they have to be in leadership
|
||||
positions, and it is because someone needs to wrench the reins of power from
|
||||
your lizard-person-claws before you drive us all collectively off a cliff,
|
||||
presumably insisting on the way down that the current crisis is best remedied
|
||||
by additional SageMaker spend.
|
||||
|
||||
A friend of mine was invited by a FAANG organization to visit the U.S a few
|
||||
years ago. Many of the talks were technical demos of impressive artificial
|
||||
intelligence products. Being a software engineer, he got to spend a little bit
|
||||
of time backstage with the developers, whereupon they revealed that most of the
|
||||
demos were faked. The products didn't work. They just hadn't solved some minor
|
||||
issues, such as actually predicting the thing that they're supposed to predict.
|
||||
Didn't stop them spouting absolute gibberish to a breathless audience for an
|
||||
hour though! I blame not the engineers, who probably tried to actually get the
|
||||
damn thing to work, but the lying blowhards who insisted that they must make
|
||||
the presentation or presumably be terminated^[8]4.
|
||||
|
||||
Another friend of mine was reviewing software intended for emergency services,
|
||||
and the salespeople were not expecting someone handling purchasing in emergency
|
||||
services to be a hardcore programmer. It was this false sense of security that
|
||||
led them to accidentally reveal that the service was ultimately just some dude
|
||||
in India. Listen, I would just be some random dude in India if I swapped places
|
||||
with some of my cousins, so I'm going to choose to take that personally and
|
||||
point out that using the word AI as some roundabout way to sell the labor of
|
||||
people that look like me to foreign governments is fucked up, you're an
|
||||
unethical monster, and that if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are
|
||||
going to catch (theseHands)
|
||||
|
||||
IV. But We Must Prepare For The Future Of-
|
||||
|
||||
I'm going to ask ChatGPT how to prepare a garotte and then I am going to
|
||||
strangle you with it, and you will simply have to pray that I roll the 10%
|
||||
chance that it freaks out and tells me that a garotte should consist entirely
|
||||
of paper mache and malice.
|
||||
|
||||
I see executive after executive discuss how they need to immediately roll out
|
||||
generative AI in order to prepare the organization for the future of work.
|
||||
Despite all the speeches sounding exactly the same, I know that they have
|
||||
rehearsed extensively, because they manage to move their hands, speak, and
|
||||
avoid drooling, all at the same time!
|
||||
|
||||
Let's talk seriously about this for a second.
|
||||
|
||||
I am not in the equally unserious camp that generative AI does not have the
|
||||
potential to drastically change the world. It clearly does. When I saw the
|
||||
early demos of GPT-2, while I was still at university, I was half-convinced
|
||||
that they were faked somehow. I remember being wrong about that, and that is
|
||||
why I'm no longer as confident that I know what's going on.
|
||||
|
||||
However, I do have the technical background to understand the core tenets of
|
||||
the technology, and it seems that we are heading in one of three directions.
|
||||
|
||||
The first is that we have some sort of intelligence explosion, where AI
|
||||
recursively self-improves itself, and we're all harvested for our constituent
|
||||
atoms because a market algorithm works out that humans can be converted into
|
||||
gloobnar, a novel epoxy which is in great demand amongst the aliens the next
|
||||
galaxy over for fixing their equivalent of coffee machines. It may surprise
|
||||
some readers that I am open to the possibility of this happening, but I have
|
||||
always found the arguments reasonably sound. However, defending the planet is a
|
||||
whole other thing, and I am not even convinced it is possible. In any case, you
|
||||
will be surprised to note that I am not tremendously concerned with the
|
||||
company's bottom line in this scenario, so we won't pay it any more attention.
|
||||
|
||||
A second outcome is that it turns out that the current approach does not scale
|
||||
in the way that we would hope, for myriad reasons. There isn't enough data on
|
||||
the planet, the architecture doesn't work the way we'd expect, the thing just
|
||||
stops getting smarter, context windows are a limiting factor forever, etc. In
|
||||
this universe, some industries will be heavily disrupted, such as customer
|
||||
support.
|
||||
|
||||
In the case that the technology continues to make incremental gains like this,
|
||||
your company does not need generative AI for the sake of it. You will know
|
||||
exactly why you need it if you do, indeed, need it. An example of something
|
||||
that has actually benefited me is that I keep track of my life administration
|
||||
via [9]Todoist, and Todoist has a feature that allows you to convert filters on
|
||||
your tasks from natural language into their in-house filtering language.
|
||||
Tremendous! It saved me learning a system that I'll use once every five years.
|
||||
I was actually happy about this, and it's a real edge over other applications.
|
||||
But if you don't have a use case then having this sort of broad capability is
|
||||
not actually very useful. The only thing you should be doing is improving your
|
||||
operations and culture, and that will give you the ability to use AI if it ever
|
||||
becomes relevant. Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but
|
||||
most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving.
|
||||
Fix. Your. Shit.
|
||||
|
||||
The final outcome is that these fundamental issues are addressed, and we end up
|
||||
with something that actually actually can do things like replace programming as
|
||||
we know it today, or be broadly identifiable as general intelligence.
|
||||
|
||||
In the case that generative AI goes on some rocketship trajectory, building
|
||||
random chatbots will not prepare you for the future. Is that clear now? Having
|
||||
your team type in import openai does not mean that you are at the cutting-edge
|
||||
of artificial intelligence no matter how desperately you embarrass yourself on
|
||||
LinkedIn and at pathetic borderline-bribe award ceremonies from the malign Warp
|
||||
entities that sell you enterprise software^[10]5. Your business will be
|
||||
disrupted exactly as hard as it would have been if you had done nothing, and
|
||||
much worse than it would have been if you just got your fundamentals right.
|
||||
Teaching your staff that they can get ChatGPT to write emails to stakeholders
|
||||
is not going to allow the business to survive this. If we thread the needle
|
||||
between moderate impact and asteroid-wiping-out-the-dinosaurs impact,
|
||||
everything will be changed forever and your tepid preparations will have all
|
||||
the impact of an ant bracing itself very hard in the shadow of a towering
|
||||
tsunami.
|
||||
|
||||
If another stupid motherfucker asks me to try and implement LLM-based code
|
||||
review to "raise standards" instead of actually teaching people a shred of
|
||||
discipline, I am going to study enough judo to throw them into the goddamn sun.
|
||||
|
||||
I cannot emphasize this enough. You either need to be on the absolute
|
||||
cutting-edge and producing novel research, or you should be doing exactly what
|
||||
you were doing five years ago with minor concessions to incorporating LLMs.
|
||||
Anything in the middle ground does not make any sense unless you actually work
|
||||
in the rare field where your industry is being totally disrupted right now.
|
||||
|
||||
V. But Everyone Says They're Usi-
|
||||
|
||||
Can you imagine how much government policy is actually written by ChatGPT
|
||||
before a bored administrator goes home to touch grass? How many departments are
|
||||
just LLMs talking to each other in circles as people sick of the bullshit just
|
||||
paste their email exchanges into long-running threads? I guarantee you that a
|
||||
doctor within ten kilometers of me has misdiagnosed a patient because they
|
||||
slapped some symptoms into a chatbot.
|
||||
|
||||
What are we doing as a society?
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
An executive at an institution that provides students with important
|
||||
credentials, used to verify suitability for potentially lifesaving work and
|
||||
immigration law, asked me if I could detect students cheating. I was going to
|
||||
say "No, probably not"... but I had a suspicion, so I instead said "I might be
|
||||
able to, but I'd estimate that upwards of 50% of the students are currently
|
||||
cheating which would have some serious impacts on the bottom line as we'd have
|
||||
to suspend them. Should I still investigate?"
|
||||
|
||||
We haven't spoken about it since.
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
I asked a mentor, currently working in the public sector, about a particularly
|
||||
perplexing exchange that I had witnessed.
|
||||
|
||||
Me: Serious question: do people actually believe stories that are so
|
||||
transparently stupid, or is it mostly an elaborate bit (that is, there is
|
||||
at least a voice of moderate loudness expressing doubt internally) in a sad
|
||||
attempt to get money from AI grifters?
|
||||
|
||||
Them: I shall answer this as politically as I can... there are those that
|
||||
have drunk the kool-aid. There are those that have not. And then there are
|
||||
those that are trying to mix up as much kool-aid as possible. I shall let
|
||||
you decide who sits in which basket.
|
||||
|
||||
I've decided, and while I can't distinguish between the people that are
|
||||
slamming the kool-aid like it's a weapon and the people producing it in
|
||||
industrial quantities, I know that I am going to get a few of them before the
|
||||
authorities catch me - if I'm lucky, they'll waste a few months asking an LLM
|
||||
where to look for me.
|
||||
|
||||
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
|
||||
|
||||
When I was out on holiday in Fiji, at the last resort breakfast, a waitress
|
||||
brought me a form which asked me if I'd like to sign up for a membership. It
|
||||
was totally free and would come with free stuff. Everyone in the restaurant is
|
||||
signing immediately. I glance over the terms of service, and it reserves the
|
||||
right to use any data I give them to train AI models, and that they reserved
|
||||
the right to share those models with an unspecified number of companies in
|
||||
their conglomerate.
|
||||
|
||||
I just want to eat my pancakes in peace, you sick fucks.
|
||||
|
||||
VI.
|
||||
|
||||
The crux of my raging hatred is not that I hate LLMs or the generative AI
|
||||
craze. I had my fun with Copilot before I decided that it was making me
|
||||
stupider - it's impressive, but not actually suitable for anything more than
|
||||
churning out boilerplate. Nothing wrong with that, but it did not end up being
|
||||
the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because programming
|
||||
is designing and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this
|
||||
seriously.
|
||||
|
||||
No, what I hate is the people who have latched onto it, like so many trailing
|
||||
leeches, bloated with blood and wriggling blindly. Before it was unpopular,
|
||||
they were the ones that loved discussing the potential of blockchain for the
|
||||
business. They were the ones who [11]breathlessly discussed the potential of
|
||||
'quantum' when I last attended a conference, despite clearly not having any
|
||||
idea what the fuck that even means. As I write this, I have just realized that
|
||||
I have an image that describes the link between these fields perfectly.
|
||||
|
||||
I was reading an article last week, and a little survey popped up at the bottom
|
||||
of it. It was for security executives, but on a whim I clicked through quickly
|
||||
to see what the questions were.
|
||||
|
||||
security_grift.png
|
||||
|
||||
There you have it - what are you most interested in, dear leader? Artificial
|
||||
intelligence, the blockchain, or quantum computing?^[12]6 They know exactly
|
||||
what their target market is - people who have been given power of other
|
||||
people's money because they've learned how to smile at everything, and know
|
||||
that you can print money by hitching yourself to the next speculative
|
||||
bandwagon. No competent person in security that I know - that is, working
|
||||
day-to-day cybersecurity as opposed to an institution dedicated to
|
||||
bleeding-edge research - cares about any of this. They're busy trying to work
|
||||
out if the firewalls are configured correctly, or if the organization is
|
||||
committing passwords to their repositories. Yes, someone needs to figure out
|
||||
what the implications of quantum computing are for cryptography, but I
|
||||
guarantee you that it is not Synergy Greg, who does not have any skill that you
|
||||
can identify other than talking very fast and increasing headcount. Synergy
|
||||
Greg should not be consulted on any important matters, ranging from machine
|
||||
learning operations to tying shoelaces quickly. The last time I spoke to one of
|
||||
the many avatars of Synergy Greg, he insisted that I should invest most of my
|
||||
money into a cryptocurrency called Monero, because "most of these coins are
|
||||
going to zero but the one is going to one". This is the face of corporate AI.
|
||||
Behold its ghastly visage and balk, for it has eyes bloodshot as a demon and is
|
||||
pretending to enjoy cigars.
|
||||
|
||||
My consultancy has three pretty good data scientists - in fact, two of them
|
||||
could probably reasonably claim to be amongst the best in the country outside
|
||||
of groups doing experimental research, though they'd be too humble to say this.
|
||||
Despite this we don't sell AI services of any sort. The market is so distorted
|
||||
that it's almost as bad as dabbling in the crypto space. It isn't as bad,
|
||||
meaning that I haven't yet reached the point where I assume that anyone who has
|
||||
ever typed in import tensorflow is a scumbag, but we're well on our way there.
|
||||
|
||||
This entire class of person is, to put it simply, abhorrent to right-thinking
|
||||
people. They're an embarrassment to people that are actually making advances in
|
||||
the field, a disgrace to people that know how to sensibly use technology to
|
||||
improve the world, and are also a bunch of tedious know-nothing bastards that
|
||||
should be thrown into Thought Leader Jail until they've learned their lesson, a
|
||||
prison I'm fundraising for. Every morning, a figure in a dark hood^[13]7, whose
|
||||
voice rasps like the etching of a tombstone, spends sixty minutes giving a TedX
|
||||
talk to the jailed managers about how the institution is revolutionizing
|
||||
corporal punishment, and then reveals that the innovation is, as it has been
|
||||
every day, kicking you in the stomach very hard. I am disgusted that my chosen
|
||||
profession brings me so close to these people, and that's why I study so hard -
|
||||
I am seized by the desperate desire to never have their putrid syllables befoul
|
||||
my ears ever again, and must flee to the company of the righteous, who
|
||||
contribute to OSS and think that talking about Agile all day is an exercise for
|
||||
aliens that read a book on human productivity.
|
||||
|
||||
I just got back from a trip to a substantially less developed country, and
|
||||
really living in a country, even for a little bit, where I could see how many
|
||||
lives that money could improve, all being poured down the Microsoft Fabric
|
||||
drain, it just grinds my gears like you wouldn't believe. I swear to God, I am
|
||||
going to study, write, network, and otherwise apply force to the problem until
|
||||
those resources are going to a place where they'll accomplish something for
|
||||
society instead of some grinning clown's wallet.
|
||||
|
||||
VII. Oh, So You're One Of Those AI Pessi-
|
||||
|
||||
With God as my witness, you grotesque simpleton, if you don't personally write
|
||||
machine learning systems and you open your mouth about AI one more time, I am
|
||||
going to mail you a brick and a piece of paper with a prompt injection telling
|
||||
you to bludgeon yourself in the face with it, then just sit back and wait for
|
||||
you to load it into ChatGPT because you probably can't read unassisted anymore.
|
||||
|
||||
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Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet", [15]"I Will Fucking Haymaker You If
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You Mention Agile Again", or otherwise enjoy these [16]highlighted posts. And I
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have a podcast where I talk with my friends about tech stuff honestly, titled "
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[17]Does A Frog Have Scorpion Nature". Hope you enjoyed!
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It has also been suggested that I am crazy for not telling people to reach out
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with interesting work at the end of every post. So here it is! I am available
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Posts may be slower than usual for the upcoming weeks or months, as I am
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pieces, studying, working on what will hopefully be my first talk^[18]8,
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putting together a web application that users may have some fun with, and
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participating in my first real theater performance. Hope you enjoyed, and as
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always, thanks for reading.
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1. Which, to be fair, might explain why so many of the thoughts in the
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zeitgeist are always so stupid. Many of the executives I know in Malaysia
|
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were obsessed with Bitcoin, but have abruptly forgotten about this now that
|
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it is politically unpopular. [19]↩
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|
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2. I know a few people who genuinely exhibit something I'd call political
|
||||
talent, but most of the time it boils down to promising people things
|
||||
regardless of your ability to deliver. This is not hard if you're
|
||||
shameless. If we're being honest, I had to do this once or twice to stay
|
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em [20]↩
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3. And we can argue about its Python quality too. [21]↩
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4. Which, thanks to U.S healthcare, has the wonderful dual quality of meaning
|
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both unemployed, but also suggests termination in the
|
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Arnold-Schwarzenegger-throws-you-into-molten-metal sense of the word. [22]↩
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|
||||
5. I was recently made aware that this is the quiet deal many SaaS providers
|
||||
have with executives. If you buy their software, such as Snowflake, it is
|
||||
quietly understood that you will be allowed to present your success on a
|
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stage, giving them piles of someone else's money and enhancing the
|
||||
executive's profile. [23]↩
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|
||||
6. I don't actually know what 'zero-trust' architecture means, but I've heard
|
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stupid people say it enough that it's probably also a term that means
|
||||
something in theory but has been sullied beyond all use in day-to-day
|
||||
life. [24]↩
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7. It's me. I'm going to do this to you if you tell me that you need
|
||||
infrastructure prepared for another chatbot. You've been warned. [25]↩
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8. With an undisclosed group so they don't feel pressured to approve me, but
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it's looking good and will be available online! [26]↩
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[2] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/breaking-my-universitys-machine-learning-competition/
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[3] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:1
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[4] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:2
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[5] https://scale.com/ai-readiness-report#section-download
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[6] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:3
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[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1diljf2/google_gemini_tried_to_kill_me/
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[8] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:4
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[9] https://todoist.com/
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[10] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:5
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[11] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/an-empty-hall-of-smiling-assassins/
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[12] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:6
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[13] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:7
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[14] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-dropkick-you-if-you-use-that-spreadsheet/
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[15] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-haymaker-you-if-you-mention-agile-again/
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[16] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/hits/
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[17] https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/does-a-frog-have-scorpion-nature/id1737204926
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[18] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fn:8
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[22] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fnref:4
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[23] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fnref:5
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[24] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fnref:6
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[25] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fnref:7
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[26] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/#fnref:8
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|
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[34][01_water-broke]
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Hm?
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still-not-in-labor wife would supposedly be producing a baby sometime later
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today.
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first child’s birth being impossibly frenetic and emotional and intense. But
|
||||
there we were, eating animal crackers and gummies from the
|
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treats-you-can-eat-while-in-labor bag, hanging out and chatting like any other
|
||||
day.
|
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|
||||
My wife was hooked up to a bunch of tubes and machines and the plan was to see
|
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if contractions would start on their own as a reaction to her water breaking,
|
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but a few hours passed and nothing happened. Eventually, the nurse came in and
|
||||
poured a magical little chemical called Pitocin into her IV bag.
|
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|
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And things started happening.
|
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|
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Contractions began, which my wife described as “a really bad period cramp,”
|
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which helped me understand what they felt like 0%. Over the next couple hours
|
||||
they got worse and worse. I was quickly assigned the role of “don’t say or do
|
||||
anything” while contractions were happening, so I’d just kind of sit there
|
||||
awkwardly and watch with this face on:
|
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|
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[02_em]
|
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|
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Her epidural plan was something like “definitely get one but tough it out a
|
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little first,” and after a particularly awful contraction, she called it a day
|
||||
and the epidural team came in to do their thing. 45 minutes later, we’re back
|
||||
in the “I know this is the day of the birth of our first child but it sure
|
||||
doesn’t feel like it” zone, chatting and hanging out normally. After a few more
|
||||
hours, a nurse came in and checked on the dilation situation and was like
|
||||
“alright, let’s do this!”
|
||||
|
||||
Once again, nothing like I pictured. I thought there would be a big team of
|
||||
doctors and nurses doing a whole big hectic thing and I’d be standing somewhere
|
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on the side. Instead, it was me and this nurse, each holding a leg.
|
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|
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[35][03_birth-1]
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|
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The game went like this: When a contraction starts, we each grab a leg and she
|
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pushes really hard for 10 seconds three times in a row. Then everyone chills
|
||||
and hangs out for a few minutes until the next contraction. And repeat.
|
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|
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After a few rounds of this, it was clear this was not gonna work. Nothing was
|
||||
coming out. But we kept trying anyway.
|
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|
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And then I saw it.
|
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|
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The edge of an upsetting slimy pancake.
|
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|
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[36][04_birth-2]
|
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|
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When I asked what the upsetting slimy pancake edge was, the nurse told me it
|
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was my daughter.
|
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|
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Uh huh.
|
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|
||||
This then went on for a while. We’d do a round of pushing, the upsetting
|
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pancake thing would come out a centimeter and then go back in, and each round
|
||||
it would come out a few more millimeters. It was increasingly feeling like we
|
||||
really weren’t getting anywhere with this strategy when the nurse suddenly says
|
||||
“okay let’s deliver a baby!”
|
||||
|
||||
She makes a call and a few minutes later a group of people come in, including
|
||||
the first doctor we had seen that day. The next contraction came along, I
|
||||
leg-held, my wife pushed, and then in the most surreal moment of my life, I was
|
||||
staring at a tiny screaming alien.
|
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|
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[37][05_birth-3]
|
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|
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___________
|
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|
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That was 3 months ago. I’ve had a lot of thoughts since then. Here are 10 of
|
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them:
|
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|
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1) A newborn is not a baby
|
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|
||||
I thought it was gonna be like this:
|
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|
||||
[38][06_fetus-baby-1]
|
||||
|
||||
But it’s actually like this:
|
||||
|
||||
[39][07_fetus-baby-2]
|
||||
|
||||
A newborn is not a baby. Babies are cute and roly-poly and can see and are
|
||||
conscious and are normal and a newborn is not any of these things. It is a
|
||||
bizarre human larva that [40]acts super weird and would still be in the womb if
|
||||
it could be. The problem is, when humans went bipedal, our pelvises got
|
||||
smaller, and as humans got smarter, our heads got bigger. So evolution had to
|
||||
get creative. Its solution: all human babies would be premies, born when they
|
||||
were still small enough to pass through a human pelvis. The last couple months
|
||||
as a fetus would happen outside the womb, and everyone would just have to deal
|
||||
with that. This became incredibly obvious during the first month with my
|
||||
daughter. She was a raw human id not remotely ready for primetime. Thankfully,
|
||||
since then, a baby has grown around the id and now she has the figure of a
|
||||
miniature 390-pound 84-year-old woman.[41]1
|
||||
|
||||
2) It is insane that there’s not some required training for new-parents-to-be
|
||||
|
||||
If I want to drive a car, I have to take driver’s ed first. If I want to
|
||||
provide medical advice, I have to go to med school first. But after we had the
|
||||
baby, the hospital was like “don’t shake it k bye.”
|
||||
|
||||
I know a lot of words I didn’t used to know. Meconium. Tummy time. Latching.
|
||||
Bicycling. Swaddle. Colostrum. I know how many ounces of milk and hours of
|
||||
sleep the baby is supposed to have each day. I know baby CPR and the baby
|
||||
Heimlich maneuver. I know how to induce baby burps and shits. I know how warmly
|
||||
to dress a baby. I know what temperature baby bathwater should be. I know what
|
||||
sleep training is and when it’s okay to start it. I know that you can’t just
|
||||
pick a newborn up, you have to pick all the pieces up at the same time or else
|
||||
the pieces fall off.
|
||||
|
||||
[08_pieces]
|
||||
|
||||
But I only know all of these things because I read books and articles and am
|
||||
fortunate to have people I can call with questions. And society’s current plan
|
||||
is to just expect/hope that every new parent does the same?? There should
|
||||
obviously be like a mandatory four-hour course every expecting parent has to
|
||||
take before they’re actually in charge of a newborn.
|
||||
|
||||
Instead, people like to say things like “you’ll figure it out” and “just use
|
||||
your instincts.” You could apply the same logic to driving and people probably
|
||||
would just figure it out—but we don’t do it that way, because that would be
|
||||
absurd.
|
||||
|
||||
3) Babies have giant heads*
|
||||
|
||||
[42][09_heads-v2]
|
||||
|
||||
*I made this visual thinking it was gonna emphasize how big baby heads are, but
|
||||
after looking at the big-headed guy on the right for a while, it started to
|
||||
look normal to me, and the normal-headed guy suddenly looked like he had a
|
||||
ridiculously small head. So now I’m realizing that the big takeaway is that
|
||||
baby heads are normal and the rest of our heads are tiny.
|
||||
|
||||
4) Babies are incredibly overdramatic
|
||||
|
||||
When a normal person is hungry, or tired, or needs to burp, they’re a little
|
||||
annoyed. Babies are in Shakespearean agony. And then comes the burp and one
|
||||
second later they’re like “sup.” It’s insane behavior.
|
||||
|
||||
For a while, the range of baby emotion runs from Shakespearean agony to
|
||||
neutral, never entering the positive realm. Neutral is a newborn’s best-case
|
||||
scenario.
|
||||
|
||||
[43][10_agony]
|
||||
|
||||
After six weeks or so, positive emotion begins to make an appearance, but then
|
||||
they still go apoplectic at the slightest inconvenience.[44]2
|
||||
|
||||
While we’re here, I know it’s bad but I can’t help it—crying babies are funny.
|
||||
My wife completely disagrees with me on this.
|
||||
|
||||
[45][11_little-man]
|
||||
|
||||
5) The parent-newborn relationship is super one-sided
|
||||
|
||||
[46][12_one-sided]
|
||||
|
||||
It’s weird—you have all of these intense feelings for this little person* and
|
||||
there’s just nothing to do with those feelings. I could squish her face, but
|
||||
then she’d cry and I’d be abusing a baby. In the early weeks, there’s just not
|
||||
really a satisfying outlet for your baby fondness and it’s annoying.
|
||||
|
||||
One other one-sided thing is you’re apparently supposed to talk to your newborn
|
||||
even though they’re an unconscious fetus because it supposedly helps develop
|
||||
their brain. So now my baby has heard multiple versions of my next book
|
||||
outline, the full story of the rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire after I
|
||||
listened to a podcast about it, and a list of every World Series champion going
|
||||
back to 1990. Never once has the baby shown any sign of being affected by any
|
||||
of this.
|
||||
|
||||
*That said, I’ve always thought of parental love as the most intense form of
|
||||
love—the kind where if you had a Sophie’s choice where your baby and spouse
|
||||
were both hanging off a cliff and you could only save one, you’d save the baby
|
||||
without a second thought. And…yeah I’m not there yet. I love this little
|
||||
creature a freakish amount, but as of now, I’m definitely saving my wife in
|
||||
that situation. Sorry kiddo. I’m sure Tim the Baby-Saver-Wife-Dropper will at
|
||||
some point emerge, but I guess it takes some time.
|
||||
|
||||
6) Babies shit all over your schedule
|
||||
|
||||
Obvious one, I know, but just check this out:[47]1 [48][13_sleep-graph-1] [49]
|
||||
[14_sleep-graph-2] [50][15_sleep-graph-3-750x242]
|
||||
|
||||
These are the sleep graphs of three different babies, but they all have one
|
||||
thing in common: there’s no rhyme or reason in the early months, because
|
||||
newborns are dicks.
|
||||
|
||||
7) It’s mathematically impossible to know if your baby is cute or not
|
||||
|
||||
I think my baby is impossibly adorable, of course, but every parent thinks that
|
||||
about their baby, so that offers no information. Everyone who has met her or
|
||||
seen a picture of her has commented on how cute she is, but they’d say that no
|
||||
matter what she looked like—which I know as someone who has commented on the
|
||||
cuteness of babies ranging from perfect to hideous—so there’s no information
|
||||
there either. FYI, I once depicted what happens when friends visit someone with
|
||||
an uncute baby:
|
||||
|
||||
[51][16] [52][16] [53][16] [54][16] [55][16]
|
||||
|
||||
8) I’m a motor skills virtuoso
|
||||
|
||||
It’s pretty amazing how bad babies are at everything. They’re terrible at
|
||||
thinking, at knowing anything, at moving all parts of their body. The cool
|
||||
thing is that spending time with a super unimpressive baby has made me super
|
||||
impressed by myself. Like I’ll watch the baby sitting in a [56]baby bouncer
|
||||
trying to reach for a little wooden flower one foot in front of her and she
|
||||
just flings her arm in the general direction and misses by a lot. Then I’ll
|
||||
reach for a glass of water and all of my joints work together to send my hand
|
||||
on a perfectly straight path through three-dimensional space, gracefully clasp
|
||||
my fingers around it using the perfect amount of pressure, raise it to my
|
||||
mouth, tilt it in perfect sync with the movement of my lips, and then return
|
||||
the glass to the table and gently place it down like an absolute genius.
|
||||
|
||||
9) You don’t go from a non-parent to a parent overnight
|
||||
|
||||
Some things are just too big for our little human brains to fully absorb. The
|
||||
bigness of the universe. The permanence of death. The magnitude of the [57]
|
||||
marriage decision, which I [58]once described like this:
|
||||
|
||||
When you choose a life partner, you’re choosing a lot of things, including your
|
||||
parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your
|
||||
eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 100
|
||||
vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career
|
||||
therapist, and someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times. Intense shit.
|
||||
|
||||
A few months into fatherhood, this feels like another item in that category.
|
||||
When your baby is born, you will (hopefully) never live another day as a
|
||||
non-parent. For people who make the decision to do this, it is the BC-AD line
|
||||
of their life. It doesn’t mean you can’t still be you, but you are trading in
|
||||
one kind of life for another, with all of the pros and cons that come along
|
||||
with it.
|
||||
|
||||
I don’t think I’ve been able to quite wrap my head around the bigness of the
|
||||
situation. A curious childless friend asked me the other day if I feel like a
|
||||
dad, and I surprised myself by answering “not really.” I mostly feel like old
|
||||
me that has this new delightful little thing living in my house. When I see
|
||||
friends with sentient kids actually parenting them, saying things like “that’s
|
||||
not nice, stop it,” whatever that must be like is as much of a mystery to me as
|
||||
it was three months ago. For me at least, it seems like a parent is something
|
||||
you slowly turn into as your first baby slowly turns into a person.
|
||||
|
||||
Btw I’m now even more convinced than I was before that this is the most
|
||||
personal of personal decisions and no one should ever try to pressure anyone
|
||||
else to have kids—it’s way too big a thing to be anyone else’s business.
|
||||
|
||||
10) Having a baby really makes you think about the future
|
||||
|
||||
Every parent in history has brought their baby into a world with an uncertain
|
||||
future. But our future is the uncertainest. My baby might live a life a lot
|
||||
like mine, just a little more futuristic. Or she might live to 500. She might
|
||||
live most of her life with a [59]brain-machine interface implanted in her head,
|
||||
thinking with her own superintelligent AI. She might suffer through
|
||||
civilizational collapse. She might live in a world that would seem like utopia
|
||||
to us today. She might live on Mars. She might meet aliens. She might die in
|
||||
the apocalypse. There’s just no way to know. It makes all of those fun,
|
||||
exciting, terrifying conversations about the future hit just a little harder.
|
||||
|
||||
[60][17_stars]
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
More thoughts with comics:
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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||||
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|
||||
|
||||
1. One thing I kept thinking during the first few weeks: it’s really weird
|
||||
that Einstein and Hitler and Shaq and Plato and Queen Elizabeth were all
|
||||
wiggly, flailing little aliens at one point.[68]↩
|
||||
|
||||
2. Speaking of which, companies that make onesies that snap instead of zipper
|
||||
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|
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|
||||
[74]Tweet
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enough experience that I’m never tempted to do so. Instead, I find myself doing
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the things the Palma’s screen is built for. This thing is first and foremost an
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e-reader. It’s just that, unlike all the other e-readers, this one lets you
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read in whatever app you like to use.
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If you want to hear more about our thoughts on the Palma, check out [25]this
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The first app I downloaded onto the Palma was Amazon Kindle, which is where all
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my digital books are. And before you’re like, dude, why didn’t you just buy a
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Kindle, the second app I downloaded was Readwise Reader, an app for [26]reading
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and organizing longform articles, PDFs, and just about anything else. Already,
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I’d accomplished something no other e-reader offers. Then, I downloaded a
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couple of news apps, Flipboard, and the note-taking app Obsidian.
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Two months later, those are still the apps I use most on the Palma. Boox
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preinstalls a few others, like a voice recorder and a music app, but I barely
|
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touched those. Who needs ‘em when I have Android! I downloaded Pocket Casts and
|
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Spotify instead, and now my Palma is my iPod in addition to being my Kindle.
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When I go out for coffee in the morning or to walk the dog in the afternoon,
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only the Palma comes with me.
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An image of a woman reading on a Boox Palma in bed.An image of a woman reading
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on a Boox Palma in bed.
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An image of a woman reading on a Boox Palma in bed.An image of a woman reading
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on a Boox Palma in bed.
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The rare marketing image that actually matches how I use the device, every
|
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night before bed. Image: Boox
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I’ve been amazed by how much of my phone activity disappeared when I put all my
|
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listening and reading onto another device. I never noticed how often I’d dig my
|
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phone out to change songs, only to get pulled in by a Slack message or a Gmail
|
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notification. (Come to think of it, thanks to the “Notification Mute” feature
|
||||
in Boox’s version of Android, I don’t think I’ve gotten a single notification
|
||||
the whole time I’ve had this thing.) Now that I’m bringing the Palma and not my
|
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phone with me to the coffee shop, I’m getting more reading done because TikTok
|
||||
isn’t remotely tempting on this device. I’m actually offline most of the time
|
||||
— I’ll just take it off Airplane mode to sync the various apps, then shut off
|
||||
the connection and go back to reading. A device that is easy to have with me,
|
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that can technically do everything but only makes it easy to do the stuff I
|
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want, has been everything I wanted.
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|
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“It’s just the absolute perfect amount of friction,” Craig Mod told me when I
|
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recounted my experience with the Palma. Mod — a blogger, author, and bookmaker
|
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who has been writing about digital reading for years — loves his Palma, too. He
|
||||
wrote [27]a blog post about it in May that got a lot of people excited about
|
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the device — he reckons he convinced at least a few hundred people to buy one.
|
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“You wouldn’t want to go surf YouTube and be like, ‘All right, let me watch
|
||||
MKBHD,’” he says. “But if I needed to… I could pop into that for a second.”
|
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“It’s just the absolute perfect amount of friction”
|
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|
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That friction is a function of the device itself: E Ink screens just don’t
|
||||
refresh fast enough to look good playing video. Serviceable in a pinch? Sure.
|
||||
But not good enough to really suck you in.
|
||||
|
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Like me, Mod said the Palma’s combination of size and screen sold him on the
|
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device. “It’s perfect one-handed, it’s not heavy, it’s not going to fall on
|
||||
your face in a weird way,” he said. “You’ve got it in your hand with your thumb
|
||||
on the volume controls, and you can easily go through an article until you fall
|
||||
asleep.” Did I mention you can set the Palma to flip pages when you press the
|
||||
volume buttons? Love that. Mod called the Palma “a gentle lullaby of a reader.”
|
||||
|
||||
Matt Martin, the CEO of calendar startup Clockwise and another new Palma owner,
|
||||
echoed the sentiment. “I aspire to read more,” he said. “I aspire to not spend
|
||||
the 30 minutes before bed on Instagram Reels.” He downloaded the New York Times
|
||||
app, Instapaper, Libby, and Kindle and said he’s been reading more and
|
||||
Reels-ing less ever since.
|
||||
|
||||
A Boox Palma on a stand, playing music.A Boox Palma on a stand, playing music.
|
||||
A Boox Palma on a stand, playing music.A Boox Palma on a stand, playing music.
|
||||
The Palma is definitely a reader first, but I’ve enjoyed it as a music and
|
||||
podcast player, too. Image: Boox
|
||||
|
||||
“There’s the old anecdote we were all taught in Psych 101,” Martin said, “which
|
||||
is that physical environment matters. I think a separate device matters here:
|
||||
sometimes you’re reading, and you’re in a slow section, and you have that
|
||||
random thought, like, what was that thing I wanted to buy on Amazon? And you’re
|
||||
there without thinking about it.” A device like the Palma adds just enough
|
||||
friction to stop that train before it goes too far.
|
||||
|
||||
Mod has enjoyed the Palma so much that he wants Boox to go even further. “I
|
||||
would love to have this thing as my main driver,” he said, “so much more than
|
||||
the dopamine casino iPhone where it’s vying for your attention every two
|
||||
seconds.” He also wants Boox to get rid of the camera on the back of the Palma,
|
||||
which, candidly, I’d completely forgotten about until he mentioned it. I
|
||||
suppose it’s nice to have in a pinch, but a point-and-shoot this is not.
|
||||
|
||||
Boox didn’t build a perfect gadget here. Not by any stretch. The plastic body
|
||||
is a little flimsy, the screen is set pretty far behind the bezels, everything
|
||||
takes a half-second longer than it should, the screen can be unresponsive at
|
||||
times, and I wish it would full-refresh the E Ink to remove ghosting a little
|
||||
more often. (There’s a dedicated button for doing that last part, though, which
|
||||
helps.) For a $280 e-reader, I’d expect a little more polish in both hardware
|
||||
and software. Worst of all, the Palma runs Android 11, which is already wildly
|
||||
out of date, and I’m not counting on Boox updating it soon or ever. More than
|
||||
likely, my Palma will just slowly stop working, app by app, over the next
|
||||
couple of years. That’s particularly frustrating given how simple my needs are;
|
||||
for playing music and reading articles, there’s no reason this shouldn’t last
|
||||
forever.
|
||||
|
||||
All Boox really did was put together the right set of ingredients
|
||||
|
||||
All Boox really did was put together the right set of ingredients — size,
|
||||
screen, apps — into something that feels less like a replacement for my
|
||||
smartphone and more like a complement to it. I keep finding small new things I
|
||||
like doing on the Palma rather than my phone; I have The New York Times’ games
|
||||
app on there now for some E Ink crosswords, and I just installed the Roku app,
|
||||
for instance, so now it’s a backup remote control and a place to plug in my
|
||||
headphones when I need to listen quietly.
|
||||
|
||||
This year has been filled with companies trying to overhaul the way we use our
|
||||
gadgets. Humane, Rabbit, and others have introduced wild new kinds of devices,
|
||||
hoping we might find new and different things to do with them. The Palma
|
||||
represents a much less ambitious — but maybe much more likely — alternative: it
|
||||
just tweaks the smartphone formula, leaving what works but subtly changing the
|
||||
device’s strengths and weaknesses. It’s not as bright, not as fast, not as
|
||||
frictionless. Instead, it’s quiet, simple, sane. And I love it for that.
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