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#313 Showing old people how to do something on a computer

December 12, 2023November 30, 2023 Neil Pasricha

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#314 Watching bartenders work really fast
#312 The sound of a train coming into the station

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
17 Sep

47 Things I've (Almost) Learned As I Turn 47

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
16 Sep

I'm in a 14-person Fantasy Football league.

We went to school 20 yrs ago and nobody lives in the same town and it's a fun way to keep in touch.

However!

Our trash talk has occasionally devolved into slop grenade lobbing this year!

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of texts

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Shane Parrish @shaneparrish ·
11 Sep

The decline of reading.

‘By the end of the twentieth century, a college graduate born after 1969 read less than someone born before 1950 with a basic level of education.

Indeed, nowadays many rich and highly educated people are much less well-read than many members of the

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
15 Sep

Slop grenades!

I disagree with @tobi on a lot — *cough* island airport *cough* — but with him 100% on this one. Brilliant.

Sheer gads of AI barf-output are accelerating our once-helpful tendency to overthink into a cultural metastasis.

Shane Parrish @shaneparrish

Lazy work used to mean too little output.

Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else.

@tobi call it "slop grenades."

A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it).

Someone else

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