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tags:
- dispatch
references:
- title: "The Brand Age"
url: https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:05Z
file: paulgraham-com-9dskkh.txt
- title: "Daring Fireball: 'The Brand Age'"
url: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/30/the-brand-age
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:07Z
file: daringfireball-net-fjywii.txt
- title: "The Kindness Of Familiar Faces | Defector"
url: https://defector.com/the-kindness-of-familiar-faces
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:13Z
file: defector-com-jlgxd7.txt
- title: "Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: The feeling of the old world fading away"
url: https://dirt.fyi/article/2026/02/the-feeling-of-the-old-world-fading-away
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:18Z
file: dirt-fyi-3hauqg.txt
- title: "Good trains"
url: https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/good-trains/
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:19Z
file: www-robinsloan-com-ebxc4s.txt
- title: "Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business | Defector"
url: https://defector.com/why-i-got-out-of-the-gambling-business
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:23Z
file: defector-com-3tadhg.txt
- title: "Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people"
url: https://stopsloppypasta.ai/en/
date: 2026-04-02T04:02:25Z
file: stopsloppypasta-ai-lzdmgr.txt
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- Warmer weather
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### Links
* [Title][5]
* [Title][6]
* [Title][7]
* [The Brand Age][5] ([via][6])
[5]: https://example.com/
[6]: https://example.com/
[7]: https://example.com/
> That's not why brand age watches look strange. Brand age watches look strange because they have no practical function. Their function is to express brand, and while that is certainly a constraint, it's not the clean kind of constraint that generates good things. The constraints imposed by brand ultimately depend on some of the worst features of human psychology. So when you have a world defined only by brand, it's going to be a weird, bad world.
* [The Kindness Of Familiar Faces | Defector][7]
> None of that happens if the internet exists. Instead of fleeing to Seattle in search of a purpose in life, Kurt Cobain would’ve joined a subreddit that made living in Aberdeen three percent more bearable, he would have expressed his jadedness with society on Thought Catalog, and he would have uploaded rough demos to his SoundCloud as his attempt at making it in the biz. He wouldn’t have met any of the people who either inspired his music or directly made it with him. More important, the Seattle scene itself never would have materialized. The internet disincentivizes people young and old from going out into the world, from making necessary human connections, and from forging a collective artistic voice together. That’s why there’s never gonna be another Cobain.
* [Digital culture and entertainment insights daily: The feeling of the old world fading away][8] ([via][9])
> To be clear, this sorrow is not about nostalgia or “getting older”, this is about living in a moment when the question, “Has the world changed or have I?” is irrelevant because the separation of the self and the world no longer makes any sense.
* [Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business | Defector][10]
> Though the damage I did while at the company cannot be undone, I can sleep a little easier now knowing I am no longer a part of that rotten business. I encourage everyone else working at these companies to do the same as I did, and quit. The job can be walked away from; the casino, on the other hand, follows you everywhere.
* [Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people][11]
> slop·py·pas·ta  n.  Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender did not bother to do themselves.
[5]: https://paulgraham.com/brandage.html
[6]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/30/the-brand-age
[7]: https://defector.com/the-kindness-of-familiar-faces
[8]: https://dirt.fyi/article/2026/02/the-feeling-of-the-old-world-fading-away
[9]: https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/good-trains/
[10]: https://defector.com/why-i-got-out-of-the-gambling-business
[11]: https://stopsloppypasta.ai/en/