The Leftovers, TV series 2014 - 2017. Provokes interesting reactions and not completely sure why! Worth your time. 4/5
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome. Interesting interview with Pichai. Nilay Patel shows what a good interviewer should be doing – asking uncomfortable questions.
This is what a digital coup looks like and Can big tech and privacy coexist? by Carole Cadwalladr. Eloquent, fearless and punchy.
In Defense of Screens by Christopher Butler. “The screen isn’t the attention thief; it’s merely the scene of the crime. (…) We can scan at the speed of thought, but we can only listen at the speed of speech. This is why efforts to create “screenless” interfaces often end up feeling limiting rather than liberating.”
It’s never your job to spare someone the experience of disappointment, provided that the action that triggers it is, in other ways, the right one to take.
— Oliver Burkeman