November 2022

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

We're seeing some of the effects of Stuck Culture lately. For instance, Ticketmaster prices.

Maybe the problem isn’t Ticketmaster. There isn’t a steady supply of big stars anymore like there was in the 20th century media monoculture. Now it’s a bottle neck because of decentralization after 2007.

Take a look at the top grossing tours of the last few years. 2019 2021

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Weekend Reads

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for living in a country without enemies on the borders. In Kyiv there’s no power or water in much of the city and streets are filled with the hum of mobile gen­er­ators powering kiosks, flower stores and cof­fee stalls. This Wall Street Journal writes about Kiev today: "I got home dragging my suitcase up to the 6th floor shining my phone light because the lift and lights weren’t working, and felt like I’d gone back in time. Can’t imagine what elderly people living in apartment blocks with no water are dealing with."

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year. A product like this is not lindy. You're just going to talk to something that isn't alive everyday? That feels weird. No one wants to do that. Think about what you talk to: other things that are alive, yourself, maybe to a higher power. There is this notion we will just be speaking to the computer. You feel crazy doing that. No technology is changing that feeling.

AI image making is getting really good. I think it will be easy to con people into low-level fake history utilizing video and photos soon.

New video on third places

This is a really interesting finding. Listening speaks to our intuition while reading promotes analytic thought. It implies that there are some deep consequences for the change in the modality of social communication entailed by the internet. I.e. if you communicate largely in text messages instead face-to-face or voice calls, that is going to impact your social relationships, because you will be relying on analytic rather than intuitive thinking. I think everyone may have noted that people are less empathic online. This could be why.

The Dunning-Kruger effect effect occurs when a person's lack of knowledge and skills in a certain area cause them to overestimate their own competence. Is it real? 

Evidence for the cooking of fish 780,000 years ago. The article also indicates the fish were cooked at a controlled temperature.

The key to making a splashless urinal is ensuring that a person’s pee stream hits the porcelain at a shallow angle no matter where it is aimed,

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