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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Slack
Almost everyone underrates it
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Ben Mathes
Micro Burnouts
Kasey Klimes of rhizome r&d describes burnout well: Everyone talks about "burnout" as something that happens when you work too much. I see it far more…
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Ben Mathes
MAUs Considered Harmful
Think for yourself if you don't run an attention business.
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Ben Mathes
April 2023
Stochastic Thinkpiece Parrots in Risky Domains
99% of what you read isn't relevant. Please disregard social media marketing managers that somehow got a fund.
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Ben Mathes
Should I Start an Generative AI Company?
Probably not (yet?)
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A Startup Investing Game With a Chat Bot
Using LLMs to translate the pickaxes of cloud/mobile revolution to generative AI
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Ben Mathes
Who's on Top? Deterministic vs Generative Primacy
prompt, or tldr: A five paragraph essay about LLM primacy vs deterministic primacy . Ie chatGPT having plugins is LLM primacy. A text box in an app…
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Ben Mathes
February 2023
Picking a City Won't Solve Your Problems
Midjourney and image generations: what kind of product is this anyway?
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Ben Mathes
January 2023
The Best Take on the Google Layoffs
Written by someone who's seen the inside. And sees it right.
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Ben Mathes
June 2022
A Dog-Eared Page
A journal entry, in metaphor, from a low point.
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October 2021
Surviving While Wearing Stripes
What zebra camouflage teaches us about the survival of human social groups.
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Ben Mathes
August 2021
The Latest Economic Hotness is Just a Reaction
Globalization, financialization, MMT, etc. etc. are all just pendulum swings that adherents think are totalizing Grand Answers. Don't drink the…
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