2026-03-01 18:03:00
It’s not slop because it was created by an AI. It’s slop because it’s slop.
I just read the first two pages of a sci-fi novel on my Kindle. The author proudly proclaims that the 400-page book was created without any AI whatsoever. Alas, the book is slop. The writing is overwrought and the dialogue is banal. If a page isn’t worth writing, it’s unlikely a chapter is.
Slop happens when a marketer who should know better stops trying. It’s when we prioritize volume over impact. If we measure the cost of what we create instead of its value, it’s likely we’ll end up with slop.
AI makes this easier, no doubt. But it pays to focus on avoiding slop, not in worrying how the slop is made.
The question is now, “Who approved this?” not “who made this?”
2026-02-28 18:03:00
Pundits are saying that Netflix “lost” the bidding for Warner.
Actually, they won. They didn’t just win because they got a nearly $3 billion breakup fee.
They won because in just about every contentious public auction, the winner is the one who is willing to overpay the most.
The best way to win a bidding war is to not bid.
2026-02-27 18:03:00
Orson Welles may have said, “Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
I think it’s more productive to imagine that “Justice is how society deals with luck.”
Good and bad.
2026-02-25 18:03:00
It’s nice if you do, but it’s not required.
You’re not them. You may have had different experiences, been exposed to different ideas or simply be prepared to make different choices.
That’s okay.
What’s useful: loving the change you’re able to make. Being proud of helping people get from here to there. Focusing on utility and being of service.
You don’t have to invite them to your birthday party, but it helps to care about impact and transformation.
2026-02-24 18:03:00
There are two feet of snow blocking your car from the road. This is a problem.
Except it’s not a problem if you don’t need to leave the house for a few days—the snow will melt on its own.
And it’s not a problem if you had decided to move to the island of Saba a few years ago. It never snows there.
Traffic on the way to an important meeting is only a problem because we didn’t leave twenty minutes earlier. The rent that’s hard to cover after a vacation—same thing.
The real world feels like the source of our problems. But our decisions over time might be the actual culprits, hiding in the corner.
Instead of treating time as a given and the real world as an impediment, what happens if we accept the real world and make different decisions about time?
