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Industrialization relied heavily upon raw materials generated cheaply with slavery - cotton picked in the American South was exported and was a necessity to fuel the industrializat…

I would be surprised if Suno is very disruptive to the music industry. It has extremely impressive output for a music generator, and it is very fun to play with - but people will a…

You're right! The company is very openly continuing layoffs for the next 2 years, so I don't have much faith in the team I was moved to sticking around for much longer. I fixed up …

I spent the past two and a half years building prototype features for a large internal application. One month ago, the CFO decided that as a part of organizational restructuring, t…

It seems like Starbucks and a lot of other fast food chains are chasing short-term profits at the expense of long-term viability. A quick check shows Starbucks' gross profit has go…

My support is first-hand experience and major disappointment buying and reading his most popular book - Deep Work. It was a borderline insulting read in its lukewarm repackaging of…

Do yourself a favor and don't buy any books by Cal Newport. They're glorified blog posts with a bunch of overblown common sense rebranded with marketable terminology. Read Flow by …

Definitely similar in a lot of ways (going against the current, similar design language), but there are a couple of key differences to the point I wouldn't say Tesla is the Apple o…

Compared to prior work, it's great. On it's own, I don't agree with describing it as high-quality.

An impressive technical achievement, yes - but the presentation/marketing of this is absurd. The generated videos are aesthetically horrendous. I don't know what kind of mental gym…

They set out without any ability to do what they claimed to do and lied about it to investors, customers, and the press. A 3D model outsourcing shop isn't going to raise a lot of i…

Some are happy for now because they largely aren't accounting for the deferred costs that are being pushed down the road - once you account for wear & tear on the car and associate…

I definitely still feel sadness and anxiety over the feeling that I'm wasting my life on something I don't care about, but it feels more manageable for me than the earth-shattering…

As someone who tried the music-or-nothing approach for several years after college and two years in ended up with semi-regular panic attacks, persistent existential dread, and crip…

I was prescribed Adderall as a child and was made to take it twice daily for many years. I had serious problems sleeping due to it and turned from an outgoing and popular student t…

Organization in maintenance mode for decades looks for new short-sighted ways to save money that will ultimately cripple the company further. A tale as old as time!

I strongly disagree that companies mandating RTO are doing so to improve their bottom line - it seems like it's largely done out of a sense of tradition, to placate management's an…

"narrator" is a fitting username since you're narrating your own subjective reality. I don't think making disturbing sexual content with AI image generators is going to be viewed t…

There are tons of relatively cheap music libraries with human-composed and human-produced music that is vastly higher quality than MusicLM's output - they are used for documentarie…

A lot of tech coverage is just fawning hagiography rather than societally useful critical journalism, and a lot of people involved in tech seem to prefer it that way judging by the…

Deep Work by Cal Newport is near the top of that list - I have to warn anyone who might buy it that it is an incredibly disappointing and derivative book written with all the rigor…

"The largest investments in music are the acquisition of old publishing catalogs, while almost nothing is spent developing new artists." While music companies are certainly spendin…

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