Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy
head of vibes at Sublime
botharetrue.substack.comAlex Dobrenko
Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See more
When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can ... See more
What can we remove?
In reviewing dozens of MrBeast videos from over the years, Donaldson has nearly erased himself as a person from his episodic output. If viewers don’t really see him having fun, that’s by design. Donaldson has outright said he sees “personality” as a limitation for growth, once noting in a podcast that hinging your content on who you are as a person... See more
Patricia Hernandez • The End of the MrBeast Era
this is so depressing
Sara Tasker - Me & Orla • Manifesto for Posting Online in 2023
"All AI art can really do is add more voiceless noise to the world of relentlessly churning cheap content. If you're a part of that machine then yes AI will inevitably steamroll you, but if you're not it will accentuate your value as a singular voice a person who has something worth saying."
— Mango Street vid on YT h/t to Justin Mather in the Subst
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Leadership From A Dancing Guy
youtube.comThen it occurred to me: I could write a special essay every month and simply mail it to dues-paying members as a letter. It just clicked: We’re readers, we’re writers, we’re a new breed of independent scholars bootstrapping a new republic of letters... I should just write you... letters, to bring everyone off the computer screen regularly, to share... See more
And We're Back... Welcome to Other Life 2024
love the idea of sending actual letters once a month