Hey, I’m Kyle, and this is Chasing Rabbbits, where I write about marketing…and whatever else sparks my curiosity. I work for a marketing agency so I try t...
I love radio plays, so I agree with Dan Pink on this: Here’s a prediction: The next frontier in audio won’t be more podcasts. It’ll be theater without a stage. They’re more engaging than a single narrator audiobook but still have all the screen free benefits. Of course, there are plenty of podcasts that fill this same role. So it’s more about content than delivery medium. A few starting points if…
Morgan Housel shared this short story: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink once told a story about having dinner with the manager of one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. The fund’s objectives, the manager said, were generational. “So how do you measure performance?” Fink asked. “Quarterly,” said the manager. And summed it up as: The gap between ideals and reality. Measurement and quantification…
After dealing with years of “Xfinity’s bullcrap” as customers, a pair of brothers built an all-fiber ISP that’s cheaper & faster to compete with them. A great example of the leapfrog effect. Typical development follows a more or less linear path. Let’s use telecom to illustrate: Telegram Telephone (landline) Mobile phone VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) Developed countries follow that ladder…
Our role in the economy is to do all the kinds of things that would not count as productive. Make art, make music, create crazy things because we can, explore the frontiers of reality, and discover new ideas (with the help of genius machines), try stuff, invent new desires we did not know we had, be creative in a different way than machines are. Also, sit with each other when we are sick, have…
Peter Drucker says this on corporate greed and corruption. Noting how "every boom puts crooks in at the top." The exclusive emphasis on quarterly figures, the overemphasis on the stock price, the well-meant but idiotic belief that executives should have major financial stakes in the company, the stock options (which I have always considered an open invitation to mismanagement), and so on…
The human brain uses 20 watts of power to do its squishy supercomputing. AI models take a bit more—watts in the gigas (which is fancy speak for 1 billion). Despite improving energy efficiency , AI infrastructure is still using a lot of power and leaving quite a footprint. From IEEE: For context, it seems that generating one of those Miyazaki style images from the hot new imagegen model uses about…
Finished reading: Hōjōki by Kamo no Chomei 📚 From Wikipedia : Hōjōki (方丈記, literally "square-jō record"), variously translated as An Account of My Hut or The Ten Foot Square Hut, is an important and popular short work of the early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan by Kamo no Chōmei. From Hōjōki: Though the river's current never fails, the water passing, moment by moment, is never the same.…
"Try to be surprised by something every day. It could be something you see, hear, or read about. Stop to look at the unusual car parked at the curb, taste the new item on the cafeteria menu, actually listen to your colleague at the office. How is this different from other similar cars, dishes or conversations? What is its essence? Don't assume that you already know what these things are all about,…
Systems engineer and environmental scientist Donella Meadows on nonmaterial needs: “People don't need enormous cars; they need admiration and respect. They don't need a constant stream of new clothes; they need to feel that others consider them to be attractive, and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don't need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy…
The early bird gets the worm, but does it want it?