Things of Beauty #29

Chats over chai, AI, and French cats farting

Some good reads on digital stuff this week: thoughts on AI from a friend and a take on social media that makes me feel so seen.

I'm also curious about a new book that felt like it was popping up in all my channels over the last couple of weeks: The Good Enough Job. I'm sharing one of those articles about it below. Would love your take if you've read the book or looked into the concepts more deeply. Seems interesting, for sure.

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Tiny, lovely, thought-provoking, & just for fun things this week:

🤖 I caught up with a friend over coffee recently (actually, it was iced chai, but it's interesting how we instinctually call morning meet-ups "coffee" no matter what's actually in our cups, isn't it?). Anyway, beverage choices aside, one of the many things we chatted about was AI and how it's not going anywhere, and how like so many things in life, it's not all good and not all bad. Here's a great article from her about this very subject (pair with a chai for the full experience).

🐈 While we're on the subject of AI, this is just delightful and a perfect balance to all the serious stuff: