Archive • Things That Caught My Attention • Buttondown

s16e02: Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes

#565

September 26, 2023

s16e01: I too aspire for my memory to be safe

#564

September 22, 2023

s15e01: Marks on Flat Planes

#563

June 8, 2023

s14e17: Good Enough

#562

March 7, 2023

s14e16: The Best To-Do List or Project Management Software Is The One That Works For You Right Now

#561

February 21, 2023

s14e15: Hey, Ease Up; A Load-Bearing If-Statement

#560

February 10, 2023

s14e14: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace

#559

February 8, 2023

s14e13: Concept Art

#558

January 31, 2023

s14e12: Biblically Accurate AI, or, Hey ChatGPT, Bury This News For Me

#557

January 30, 2023

s14e11: To help you best, I'd need to know you

#556

January 27, 2023

s14e10: Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough

#555

January 26, 2023

s14e09: Building and Documentation; Making New Mistakes; Eternal Tumblr; Governance in the Early Days of a Better Nation

#554

January 25, 2023

s14e08 - Some Combination of Efficiency and Expediency

#553

January 17, 2023

s14e07: Platform Exclusivity: Microsoft / Activision Blizzard

#552

January 11, 2023

s14e06: Congratulations, Your App Has Apps In It Now

#551

January 10, 2023

s14e05 - The Software-Defined Cost of Doing Business

#550

January 9, 2023

s14e04: Substack; The Health Technology Surveillance Complex

#549

January 5, 2023

s14e03: Success Criteria; Chat

#548

January 4, 2023

s14e02: It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights

#547

January 3, 2023

s14e01 - The Hallway Track

#546

January 2, 2023

s13e25: Universal Basic Compute

#545

December 21, 2022

s13e24 - The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things

#538

December 16, 2022

s13e23: Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch

#536

November 22, 2022

s13e22: This isn't an HBR case study, this is a hundreds of millions of dollars new campus of Look At This Fucking Guy

#535

November 19, 2022

s13e21: Sunny and crisp outside

#534

November 17, 2022

s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person

#533

November 10, 2022

s13e19: Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition

#532

November 8, 2022

s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices

#537

November 1, 2022

s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More

#531

October 28, 2022

s13e16: Duolingo, but for talking to ML Image Generators

#530

October 27, 2022

s13e15: Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think

#529

October 26, 2022

s13e14: Weird VR or, Make VR Fun; Heated seats; You don't see the unsuccessful long tail

#528

October 25, 2022

s13e13: If we could just put our music within reach of people; Wordstreams; As a military officer, I want to; Forty Four Thousand, One Hundred Times A Second, Twice

#527

October 24, 2022

s13e12: Standards; The Bird in the Room

#526

October 21, 2022

s13e11: What it means to be PlayStation with Netflix in the room; What's Simlish for Metaverse?

#525

October 19, 2022

s13e10: Dying Slowly, and then All At Once; Scrollytelling

#524

October 18, 2022

s13e09: HBO Max is Upside Down; Bits and Pieces

#523

October 17, 2022

s13e08: Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR

#522

October 14, 2022

s13e07: It's not a place, it's what's in-between; Twitter will be unbundled

#521

October 13, 2022

s13e06: Form Factors; Weaponizing typos to own the libs

#520

October 12, 2022

s13e05: AQI But For Brain Fungus

#519

October 11, 2022

s13e04: What is it like to be a PlayStation, Netflix/Everyone Else Edition

#518

October 10, 2022

s13e03: What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect

#517

October 7, 2022

s13e02: What Is It Like To Be A PlayStation?

#516

October 6, 2022

s13e01: Google Stadia, or, Winning at Videogames

#515

October 5, 2022

s12e59: Look, the Disney Thing; Weak signals, Zoom; Commoditization breeds Complacency

#514

October 4, 2022

s12e58: We can hallucinate it for your wholescale

#513

September 28, 2022

s12e57: A Grab Bag

#512

September 27, 2022

s12e56: The Point of the Thing

#511

September 23, 2022

s12e55: It's a trombone, a midi controller, and a videogame controller...

#510

September 22, 2022