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For those of us born into varying levels of scarcity, whose self-worth may have been maimed by systemic down-and-outness, we have a tendency to reach for the same, the broken, the known poisoned palliatives, because sameness is comforting. The paradox of trauma: It becomes what you know and what you know becomes a security blanket.
Slowly, over time, that trauma can be mitigated (if not nullified) through collecting good people like Pokémon cards.
Archetypes Revisited — Roden Newsletter Issue 075
craigmod.com
Microsoft grew up during the 1980s and 1990s, when the growth in personal computers was so dramatic that every year there were more new computers sold than the entire installed base. That meant that if you made a product that only worked on new computers, within a year or two it could take over the world even if nobody switched to your product. That was one of the reasons Word and Excel displaced WordPerfect and Lotus so thoroughly: Microsoft just waited for the next big wave of hardware upgrades and sold Windows, Word and Excel to corporations buying their next round of desktop computers (in some cases their first round).
How Microsoft Lost the API War
joelonsoftware.com
We also found it fascinating that Apple is the only semiconductor designer to introduce a chip this year without mentioning AI once in the product launch. To be precise, they do mention AI, but only in the context of that is one task that users might want to do with the high-end M3 Pro. But they provided no mention of any of the chip’s technical specifications – no FLOPS, TOPS, cores, speeds or specs. We think this reflects Apple’s return to its core messaging themes around user human usability. There is currently no way to talk about AI in a way that is meaningful to people not neck-deep in semiconductors.
Apple M3 and the State of CPUs
digitstodollars.com
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