Month: May 2026

“Reach for the ceiling” – David Moldawer

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“Meanwhile, I can’t tell the difference between a top violinist and your average pro despite years of classical music, both as listener and performer. I don’t have the ear.

As human beings, we’re each gifted in different ways. To be an artist is to develop the necessary skills to express our unique gifts, whatever they are. If you find yourself unmotivated or unable to improve at writing, painting, or any other form of creative expression, chances are you weren’t born with the discrimination that would make additional efforts pay off. How would you even know you were getting better? Sure, you may recognize on some level that someone else’s work is better than yours, but if you can’t articulate why, take it as a sign”

https://www.mavengame.com/p/reach-for-the-ceiling

“The AI Layoff Bill Is Coming Due, And CTOs Are Going To Pay It Twice” – Sarah Choudhary

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“Demand specificity before automation. The rule my team uses is simple. If you cannot describe what the human did, with examples, you do not understand the job well enough to automate it. Generalities about “handling customer queries” or “writing boilerplate” are not descriptions. They are the fog that hides the part the AI cannot do.”

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/05/14/the-ai-layoff-bill-is-coming-due-and-ctos-are-going-to-pay-it-twice/

“Everybody scream for war” – Hamilton Nolan

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“The historical precedents of Israel and of the United States are quite different, yes, but the basic dynamic of “religious minority feeling the sting of persecution secures homeland by forcefully taking the land of other, weaker people who were not the ones persecuting them, while being extremely self-righteous about it”—well, that should ring familiar to anyone who has ever watched the Dallas Cowboys play the Washington Redskins.

When you stand surrounded by hundreds of flexing young men drunk on rage, testosterone, and politics, you can really feel part of a tradition running through all of human history, and through all of the world’s nation-states. Any country that wants to draw borders and motivate its young men to kill for them must whip up a crowd like this, at scale”

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everybody-scream-for-war