Short the non-big tech AI stocks.

Before you buy that nice hoodie online, ask yourself, "Am I willing to delete one extra email every day for the rest of my life?"

Appreciate the share, glad you found it insightful!

This is just unjustified, either it's indifference when they ought to make their PAID users have a premium experience or they just haven't figured it out. Thanks for sharing my article!

respect the collective commitment

I completed a long due book called Piranesi today. The author has elected for a slightly different story-telling style, with the entirety of the text being in the form of a journal by the protagonist. There are elements where the writing shines but it wasnt for me. Not bad, not good either. #reading

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Thanks for the share Jonathan, appreciate you.

Thanks for the share Matt, appreciate that it's still driving conversation.

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A sample screenshot of Calendar from Google's blog

The year is 2026 and yet it remains impossible to simply drag and drop an events.ics file directly into my Google Calendar and have it block a time-slot.

Dear Alphabet, not all our meetings happen in the realm of the Gmail/Meet combo, please add this 😭

Good observation, there is a market for that. Although, there exist a good many desktop applications, the collaboration-friendly tooling is what people increasingly prefer. Someone who nails that aspect with low overhead and a user-friendly feature set will be incredibly popular.

It's incredible how vastly hardware has improved. Going by standards from 20 years ago, we would have instantaneous web, but here we are. Thanks for the share.

Appreciate the share, Paul. I'm glad folks from all corners of the world are finding this analysis relatable.

The JavaScript Overload; Whatever, AI Will Handle It | AdExchanger Why do individual web pages now require as much memory to run as an entire operating system did 30 years ago? Ad tech, baby.

Incredibly humbled to have been featured in Harvard's Nieman Journalism lab and Adexchanger this weekend. Do read.

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Very kind of you.

I've never really liked notion. It's doing everything Google docs does but much much worse. And google docs isn't very good to begin with. Thanks for sharing my article.

The real flaw in your students' calculations is assuming the people of the far future haven't already built a tachyon deflector shield specifically to bounce them right back to us!

Appreciate the share Tim, I'm glad you found the breakdown helpful. Thanks!

Author here, I truly appreciate your kind words Robert. While researching this piece and improving the draft, I knew this was an issue people might relate to...because I was one of them. But the conversation it has generated around the web blew my mind about the scope of it all. Thanks for reading!

I ought to have included this comparison 😭

An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)

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For the status quo to shift, we need collective action from subscribers and casual visitors alike. Possibly vote with their wallets or voice their opinions online, preferably a mix of both. High bounce rates may finally trigger introspection about shifting to a more user-friendly model. Thanks!

"The reader is not respected enough by the software. The publisher is held hostage by incentives from an auction system that not only encourages but rewards dark patterns."

Author of the article here. Thank you so much for the kind words, Lauren! Your observation about these dopamine-friendly video apps winning over the static web is spot on and adds a great layer to this. Thanks for reading!

The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

The NYT front page is 49 megabytes, larger than the original install disk size for Windows 95

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Wow! On your point about 14.4k modems, I feel like every modern website should be optimized for the slowest possible connection speed they anticipate. Thanks for sharing my article!

I ought to go back in time and quote you in the original article 😭

Thanks for sharing! Appreciate you.