Technology must be biased to be useful. Advice must be biased to be useful. As Nat Friedman put it, “As human beings it is our right (maybe our moral duty) to reshape the universe to our preferences. Technology, which is really knowledge, enables this.”
Technology is a tool that helps us adopt the habits and values of its creators. Technology should free us from the things we don’t want so we can focus on the things we love.
A great way to get good a technology is to make beautiful things for beautiful people.
- What does a beautiful thing tell you? It was made by people who really care.
- Rick Ruban put it nicely
Creativity is not a rare ability. It is not difficult to access. Creativity is a fundamental aspect of being human. It’s our birthright. And it’s for all of us.
Here’s the definitive list for technology that helps me adopt smarter defaults in my search and learning
- Curius.app for reading
- Arc for web browser
- Beeper for all chats in one app
- Raycast for answering questions with ChatGPT plugin
- Snipd for podcasts with AI note-taking
- Perplexity for finding sources
- Anthropic Claude for 2-sigma learning and ai assisted writing
- Obsidian for writing
- Quartz for hosting your writing
- Cursor for AI pair programming. Webstorm and PyCharm for resolving merge conflicts. Now switching over to neovim.
I’m looking for tools that help cultivate taste and intuition on:
- History (inspired by Network State)
- Technology
- Russian Literature
- Policy & urban planning (China, US)
Here’s a growing list of Internet Gems http://quotes.cat-v.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldqsTpbvjj8 https://olickel.com/