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Serpico (1973): A film about the compulsion to act on righteous indignation at the expense of everything else. Bad script, good Pacino performance, better showcase of ’70s menswear. Watch Lumet and Al work together in Dog Day Afternoon instead.

Starting over isn’t starting from nothing.

I agree, and have said so for years. I'd rather use a heavily AI-augmented Photoshop than manage an LLM employee. But how do these guys so often mistake the logic of the current economic system for universal truth. Speed and quality trumping authorship is market logic.

The steward is almost as important as the founder.

America fumbled the Art Deco bag.

Owning your own compute is going to become a revolutionary act.

The main rule of X: Always assume your interlocutor does have a coherent view but is having to edit heavily to come under the character limit.

Northern English humour, no doubt. I’ve had similar issues when in the States. The only way to survive in the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution was to joke constantly on the factory floor.

Never watch the film before reading the book. In a world ruled by distraction, once you know the plot, you’re unlikely to bother picking up the novel.

Just as landscape artists continued to draw mountains long after the invention of photography, I’ll still be publishing organic slop long after the internet is swamped with agents.

I’m pure of heart so my cigar smoking will never catch up with me

It’s fairly obvious that technologists would be the first to find ways to leverage it. It’ll trickle down soon enough. It probably won’t be as paradigm-shifting as it has been in programming, translation and image generation, but it’ll still cause major disruption.

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