Archive for November, 2024

Writing in the future

I wonder about this prediction, Writes, and Write-Nots. AI has had an enormous impact on student and professional lives already, and it is only likely to get more pervasive as it becomes more integrated into all the tools you are already using. Pretty soon, people will need to consciously choose tools that don’t include AI generation by default. Once it gets to that point we just accept that it is part of our lives and move on. Rarely do we consciously add the friction, the hard work back in.

“I’m usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won’t be many people who can write.”

I could certainly benefit from writing more, I actually do enjoy the process of writing, trying to explain my thoughts, but rarely find the focused time to do it.

The Broligarchy

Great title, scary article. Is this happening out there in the real world?

How to survive the broligarchy

What’s next

Uff dah, as we say up here.

I’ve resisted posting anything about the election because I’m not sure I have organized my thoughts in any particular way that makes sense. I read and liked this piece though, and I hope to see more thinking, writing, planning, and action like this proposal from Matthew Yglesias.

I don’t know that I agree with all of it, but I want to amplify the point: The democrats need to rebuild the platform and also learn how to talk about it again.

A Common Sense Democrat manifesto – by Matthew Yglesias:

Nine principles for Common Sense Democrats

My goal here is to write these principles down at an adequate level of abstraction such that they don’t become a policy laundry list. They’re also not supposed to be a straitjacket. Different people have different views and different priorities, and principles need to be loose enough to accommodate some differences.

Anyway, it’s worth a read.