Clone is pretty cool. Link quality feels a little mid or too mainstream a lot of the time. I want weirder links from non-mainstream sources. I visit daily though and can’t say that about a lot of sites.
Worth reading Sam’s latest post, The Gentle Singularity. The challenging thing, at least for me, is not to roll my eyes too much. I can have doubts. How much of what he talks about will really come to pass by 2035? Maybe some. Maybe more. It doesn’t matter if you agree, disagree, drink the Kool-Aid or not. What matters is whether you are capable of catching your cynicism and instead engaging your imagination. How difficult is that for you? Because that is a reflection of how you see the world. You can choose. And your choice won’t have any bearing on the outcome, but it will impact how you live the rest of your life.
Most apps all look the same and have been stripped of any and all whimsy. There are exceptions. Carrot Weather is one such example. !Camera is such a wonderful camera app. Been playing with it the last few days.
Linking to Gruber’s post on Bill Atkinson’s passing. Certainly one of the most important minds in tech. Pancreatic cancer is awful. It took my dad at 61. I really hope it’s one of the cancers we can start detecting earlier.
Pleasantly surprised to learn that Black Moth Super Rainbow has a new album out today!
There is a genre of YouTube videos that I cannot get enough of. I think they’re simply called reaction videos, but the premise is that people listen to albums for the first time ever. There are tons of these videos on YouTube. I think it all started with turning the tables for me, though I think they’ve kinda jumped the shark at this point. I just finished watching a bunch of stoners listen to In Rainbows for the first time and was laughing so hard I was crying. Do yourself a favor and watch them listen to the first few tracks.
Apparently the roof is off limits 🤷♂️
I went to an event last night. There was a lot of AI Kool Aid consumed. It was an impressive crowd though – pioneers, luminaries, legends even! As is often the case, I ended up spending most of the time with a single person. This person told me about a company called Bronze, who seems to be doing some really cool work at the intersection of AI and sound. After talking to this person, I left with a long-time personal friend for deep conversation while we walked on the beach, eventually making our way to a late (for me) dinner.
We took the kids to see Kendrick and Sza at SoFi Stadium on Friday, May 23. It was a great show, but the sound was absolutely awful. You would think in a venue as new as SoFi is, they would have worked out all the acoustics. The kids didn’t care though. Their minds were blown and that’s all that mattered. Getting to see two artists at the top of their game was really special. I’m grateful we could give that to them.
My friend Chris was in town last week and we got together on Saturday for a hike before he went back to New York. We hiked the Grasslands Trail in Malibu Canyon. It was perfect weather and great to commune with nature while we caught up in person for the first time in while. We saw some turkey vultures hanging out on dead tree at the beginning of the hike, the wild flowers were popping, lizards were everywhere.
