“businesses and employees”

the business pays for it, the employees “use” it.

the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.

if the business is measuring “productivity”, how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like you’re trying to pick up water with your fingers?

if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face

new rant from me about how boosters asking critics to admit that AI is “useful” is not the win they think it is vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/94cb1cda/useful-is-nothing

here’s my beat for beat commentary on the WWDC25 event icyi. https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lr6tm62rpc2h

David pulled it all together perfectly here. It’s amazing how well it fits the hook model, whether they intended it or not

New webbed brief from Heydon

https://briefs.video/videos/introducing-webbed-sites/

very much agree with this

Great piece by Jacob Silverman about the growing shittyness of the day-to-day internet experience

https://archive.is/20250419163054/https://www.ft.com/content/5d06bbb4-0034-493b-8b0d-5c0ab74bedef#selection-2009.350-2009.663

Can we find a way back to an internet that puts people in lucid conversation with one another, where books are published after they are written, where anger and insanity aren’t the dominant modes of thought and the defining editorial values are more meaningful than a chumbox of clickbait nonsense? I’m not sure.

ICYI I posted a new vid/pod this week and an accompanying thread about: Everything Is Work Now — Tech products have a work/life balance problem

• Vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os9Pp3AYW4
• Pod: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/7cdb9dc1/everything-is-work-now
• Thread masto: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/114352163970046171
• Thread bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lmykmxv6qs2w

Here’s my audio/video dispatch about framing tech through conservation of energy to kill the magical thinking of generative ai and the like podcast ep: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/968a91dd/kill-magic-thinking video ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHmtYWzHz8

aw thanks

ICYI here’s me getting a bit ranty about generative ai products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MQb-uNf2U

how much is templated now? reckon it’ll be 3hrs every time?

I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch

It’s probably more sensible for me to try writing short bits too, instead of faffing around with videos

really, thanks for listening! It’s fun making them and nice to know they are being listened to

holy shit, I really don’t know if this is real or a joke

thanks! It might be uncommon because it’s a real pain in the ass to keep it short. Every time I make one I stress about how easily my point can be misunderstood because there are so few details. Good way to practice the art of moving on

😅

the woman who is quote tweeting in the twitter screenshot above. I don’t want to write her name for search indexing

LB creeps me the f out (sorry, not much else to add)