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You train them not to pay attention

Bas Leenders

Bas Leenders

04 Dec 2010
Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit.

Seth Godin, in a instantly popular post The inevitable decline due to clutter

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A glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better

I hate the way they’ve taken over the software industry, I hate how they make me feel while I’m using them, and I hate the human-intelligence-insulting postulation that a glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better. Nolan Lawson in AI ambivalence | Read the Tea Leaves

28 Feb 2026

We are entering the industrial age of the digital age

There will be more software than ever, as its production is automated; we are entering the industrial age of the digital age. But less of this code will be elegant, or considerate, or graceful. Greg Knaus on AI replacing coders, in An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself

28 Feb 2026

Don't use Al as a cheat-code for critical thinking

Why write (or code) when you have AI? The benefit isn't just the artifact that was created, it is also that it has changed how I talk about it, how I think about it. Jordan Tigani, previously tech lead of Google's BigQuery team and engineer-founder of

24 Feb 2026

When a measure becomes a target

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" Goodhart's law

12 Feb 2026
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