Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco "WALKING IS SO SIMPLE YET SO DEEPLY COMPLEX": IN CONVERSATION WITH ALISA OLEVA 2026-06-29T03:13:26+00:00 https://www.fetch.london/post/walking-is-so-simple-yet-so-deeply-complex-in-conversation-with-with-alisa-oleva robertogreco2025 walking alisaoleva psychogeography art performance situationist listenting senses sensory transience ephemeral ephemerality documentation movement parkour community everyday audio resistance productivity london walkshops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:744d547c342b/ On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness, by Roman Muradov (2018) | Chronicle Books 2026-06-27T23:13:55+00:00 https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/on-doing-nothing robertogreco idleness romanmuradov slow productivity optimization philosophy art writing eccentrics creativity walking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6e7d2455d8c7/ Pope Leo XIV's 'Magnifica humanitas' (with Jack Hanson) - Know Your Enemy - Apple Podcasts 2026-06-26T08:30:11+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pope-leo-xivs-magnifica-humanitas-w-jack-hanson/id1462703434?i=1000773716438 robertogreco magnificahumanitas 2026 popeleoxiv rerumnovarum popeleoxiii jackhanson donnaharraway cyborgs ai artificialintelligence humanism humanity reinholdniebuhr catholicchurch catholicism nature destiny human humans workers work labor augustinianism augustine staugustine saintaugustine society michaeloakenshott knowyourenemy war greed religion popefrancis us michaeloakeshott commonweal charlespéguy modernity profit capitalism privateproperty property authoritarianism democracy jdvance donaldtrump samadler-bell matthewsitman poverty augustinians sharing theology stevebannon latinamerica perú vaticanii vatican tradcatholicism globalsouth thirdworld humanrights global liberaldemocracy religiousfreedom freedomofreligion popebenedictxvi scripture thomasaquinas justice humandignity economics democraticsocialism politics adrianvermeule 1891 1937 1983 1985 discernment darioamodei anthropic antoniospadaro peterthiel towerofbabel language english audience desire homogenization tension growth friction mortality time place https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e0ae7f0359ad/ Jerry's Map 2026-06-24T07:41:46+00:00 https://www.jerrysmap.com/ robertogreco maps mapping fiction jerrygretzinger obliquestrategies art brianeno henrydarger making imagination creativity rules systems systemsthinking games play gaming worldbuilding arts accretion persistence peoplemakegames lore change random randomness uncertainty unrest future disorder order cards carddecks productivity surpise mortality death collage diaries howwewrite writing memory generativeart generative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9099a592d543/ He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place - YouTube 2026-06-24T07:40:50+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ robertogreco jerrygretzinger maps mapping fiction obliquestrategies 2026 art brianeno henrydarger making imagination creativity rules systems systemsthinking games play gaming worldbuilding arts accretion persistence peoplemakegames lore change random randomness uncertainty unrest future disorder order cards carddecks productivity generativeart generative https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ac8c23a8f07/ Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism 2026-06-17T10:06:00+00:00 https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html robertogreco matthewbutterick capitalism ai artificialintelligence spacex openai anthropic elonmusk capital philosophy government politics politicaleconomy technology luddism luddites brianmerchant economics samaltman darioamodei billgate marcandreessen technooptimism well-being wellbeing society history langdonwinner policy democracy liberaldemocracy liberalism environment gildedage inequality opec johnlocke illiberaldemocracy latecapitalism jamesglabraith robertreich karlmarx mancurolson skynet stephenhawking sciencefiction scifi nickborstom stuartrussell engineering reclamation west governance power control usexceptionalism americanexceptionalism bigai google carlbenediktfrey law legal edzitron labor work workers wages employment unemployment greatdepression taxes taxation markets revolution technofuedalism venezuela hugochávez nicolásmaduro randynewman communism property industrialrevolution resistance citizenship knowledgework gdp productivity erikbrynjolfsson knowledgeworkers biglaw llms resources norway human https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e1b267caf28/ Ten times | A Working Library 2026-06-12T00:24:43+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/ten-times robertogreco[C]ertainly, companies will be interested in tracking their customers with AI, whether as targets of ads or as imagined thieves. For most companies, however, there is an even bigger target at which to point their AI technologies: the people they employ. When companies do so, the ostensible purpose is usually simply described as increasing productivity. After all, who could be opposed to getting more done with less work? Alas, increases in productivity are deeply interwoven with two other purposes: first, the automation of supervision and control—management. Second, the reduction of wages, for instance by increasing the pool of workers that can be hired for particular tasks—deskilling, outsourcing, and globalization. [Blix & Glimmer, Why We Fear AI, page 79] It’s worth teasing something apart here. When workers talk about increasing their productivity, they often speak of getting more work done in the same amount of time. As they develop skill, or as the work becomes more automated or more regular, they are able to do more of it. But when companies talk about productivity, they are much more likely to be talking about the cost of the work. The descriptions are, at some level, equivalent, but they emerge from very different political standpoints and have entirely different impacts on people’s lives. For example, the automation of management improves productivity by reducing the number of managers needed to keep work moving, at times even down to zero. As Blix and Glimmer note, Amazon warehouse workers may find their experience of management is entirely subsumed under automated video surveillance in which there is little human oversight—or, in which the human oversight is itself automated and distant. But we see the same automation drive in more so-called professional labor, too, e.g., when a software engineer is evaluated on the number of pull requests they submit, or a doctor is measured by the change in blood pressure of their patients. Both moves replace human judgement with a purportedly objective system that can do the work of supervision without a supervisor. If when you look for productivity increases you’re only looking for people doing more work, you may miss the fact that a lot of those people are no longer around. Likewise, we are wont to assume that deskilling looks like someone doing more menial work after most of their work has been automated away. The copywriter who once generated sentences and ideas from their brilliant, creative mind but is now tasked with babysitting a sycophantic LLM that spits out uncanny but plausible-sounding versions of the same is an obvious victim. But deskilling shows up in other ways, too: the copywriter who retains their job as an actual writer—because such work remains valuable underneath an avalanche of slop—finds that they are pressured to do more and more work, at lower and lower wages, because there are legions of other people who can do it, too. The deskilling occurs at the level of the community, not only the individual. In other words, a synonym for “increase in productivity” is “fewer workers.”
This is the real-life version of the industry fable of the so-called “10x engineer,” a mythical engineer that allegedly adds 10 times the value of a normal one to a company, and the real mechanism behind it: the value that is “added” is literally the wages that the other nine workers are no longer paid, and which thus remain on the credit side of the company’s ledger. [Blix & Glimmer, Why We Fear AI, page 107]
This puts those now-ubiquitous AI mandates in a slightly different light: if every engineer (or copywriter, or doctor, etc.) is required to develop the skill to use these tools, then all of them are eminently replaceable by anyone else. So long as lots of other potential 10x workers are waiting in the wings, there will be downward pressure on wages for that lone, last-standing worker. Maybe, they think, if they work really hard and become that mythical 10x engineer, surrounded by an army of obsequious agents bent to their will, they will succeed in earning all of the wages of the nine workers they replaced. But ten times zero is still zero."]]> mandybrown 2026 ai artificialintelligence productivity efficiency llms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc82cca14b28/ idle.news — On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness 2026-06-09T21:27:15+00:00 https://idle.news/blog/on-the-difference-between-rest-and-idleness/ robertogreco“Rest is permitted because it returns you improved. Idleness is suspect because it might not return you at all.” — House Rule."]]> idleness unproduct nonproduct rest capitalism production productivity slow unschooling time wastingtime leisure artleisure leisurearts freetime stillness performance boredom creativity work labor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ac17ef018faf/ At What Cost? 2026-06-05T09:42:43+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/at-what-cost/ robertogreco 2026 audreywatters education edtech schools schooling lms ai artificialintelligence popeleoxiv randiweingarten screentime teaching howweteach persistence friction cognition children openai microsoft technology criticalthinking andrewcantarutti productivity efficiency optimization labor work learning howwelearn googleclassroom timothyburke addiction socialmedia attention attentioneconomy meta resistance offline edzitron lizkrieger meghano'gieblyn universities colleges highered highereducation noralacour csu californiastateuniversity writing howwewrite toddfeathers benwilliamson scientism neuroscience translation policy tedchiang kieranhealy lmsacasas care caring grading lessonplanning communication https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2995e194099/ The Right Tool for the Right Hands - by Andrew Cantarutti 2026-06-05T09:33:09+00:00 https://walledgardenedu.substack.com/p/the-right-tool-for-the-right-hands robertogreco andrewcantarutti education learning howwlearn teaching howweteach tools 20206 google clasroom edtech lms efficiency productivity administration gradebooks software communication lessonplanning ai artificialintelligence assessment grammarly quillbot writing howwewreite research audiobooks attention coding design production https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:82ebda45e0d2/ As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise | The Verge 2026-06-03T19:45:38+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/942629/as-ai-gets-better-it-reveals-an-empty-promise robertogreco ai artificialintelligence inequality productivity 2026 tcsottek gemini google microsoft apple computers computing labor work chatbots elonmusk johnadams markzuckerberg us economics class workers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dd30f25f4d3b/ LLMs Were Mostly (But Not Entirely) Useless at Extra-Textual Tasks Involved in the Composition of My Next Novel 2026-06-01T22:34:09+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/llms-were-mostly-but-not-entirely robertogreco freddiedeboer 2026 llms ai artificialintelligence writing howwewrite production productivity claude chatgpt howwethink thinking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe5912c973f8/ How Anthropic used its AI ethicslop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI 2026-05-30T05:18:55+00:00 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-anthropic-used-its-ai-ethicslop robertogrecoThe Vatican could have partnered with the exploited data workers fighting for their rights, the people whose water is polluted fighting data centers, or the many other victims around the world. But no, they featured ANTHROPIC, giving them their endorsement with this feature. "Vatican washing", like greenwashing. This also works in reverse, I think. Anthropic’s opportunism leaves a stain on the entire encyclical, which now, ironically, looks a bit like an accessory to helping the largest and richest AI company yet—not to mention the one aiming to sell the most job automation tools—reach new heights of power. Like I said, Anthropic is full of shit. It sent a billionaire co-founder to the Vatican to solemnly intone about the specter of mass job loss and the importance of caring for the poor, and then three days later issues a press release about its massive new funding round and resultant sub-$1 trillion valuation."]]> anthropic popeleoxiv timnitgebru brianmerchant 2026 ai artificialintelligence openai encyclicals samaltmam darioamodei claude claudecode chatgpt superbowl magnificahumanitas labor work workers chrisolah lordoftherings jrrtolkien kriskhnarao vatican catholicchurch catholicism broadcom jpmorgan taxes taxation progressivetaxation opportunism vaticanwashing power edzitron finance financialengineering luddism neoluddism neoluddites luddites rerumnovarum popeleoxiii 1891 capital capitalism dignity humanism human humans humanity technology production productivity exploitation popejohnpaulii unemployment markets slavery inequality afl-cio lorenagonzalez ethics ethicslop automation society https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eac36fcb7692/ Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy 2026-05-28T05:54:00+00:00 https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ robertogreco ai artificialintelligence generativeai genai 2026 productivity programming cloud academia business work culture technology aislop slop https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f4993a15ae99/ Marc Andreessen accidentally told the truth about AI - YouTube 2026-05-22T16:28:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waFl4uBfXRA robertogrecoMarc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. / "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQvb10vKyk "Joe Rogan Experience #2501 - Marc Andreessen https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-946
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AI’s Next Breakthroughs, What Counts As AGI, And Google’s AI Glasses Bet: The leader of Google's AI program weighs in on the cutting edge of AI research, Google's plans to put the technology in its products, and the imperative of publishing AI-generated protein structures.
https://x.com/fchollet/status/2027224640050086310
By explicitly training on specific tasks, we ended up covering a very large area (in absolute terms) of the space of all possible tasks humans can do, but this large area only amounts to 0.00...01% of the total space. And that's why we still need general intelligence. https://x.com/tengyanAI/status/2027220325101175201
what would be example of 'novel unfamiliar domains'? seems like we've touched most things
https://x.com/fchollet/status/2025401003932352851
The maximalist form of my thesis is basically this: SaaS is not about code, it is about solving a problem customers have and selling them the solution. Services + sales. If the cost of code goes to zero, SaaS will not go away. It will benefit, since code is a cost center.
https://x.com/ylecun/status/2057352321688842577
People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning abilities, by the accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge.
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/2056943819351085391
What is there even to say? He’s a genius operator. Offer people nothing for something. Get them locked into the OpenAI ecosystem. Collect equity. Collect information. Further the narrative that compute is the new water and control the flow. Dig your tendrils deeper into the world https://x.com/bosmeny/status/2056914385814401238
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight / @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity / Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner / I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
https://x.com/Jason/status/2056919949810028942
Fair warning, YC founders: if you take these tokens, there’s a non-zero chance that OpenAI will study exactly what your startup is doing, copy your idea and put your app into their free offering. / This is the classic platform playbook — be careful, founders! https://x.com/bosmeny/status/2056914385814401238
A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight / @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity / Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner / I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
https://x.com/jlongster/status/2056362647726035119
“agents running on the cloud 24/7” / bro I can’t leave my agent for 5 minutes before it starts writing crappy architecture or code
https://x.com/adamdotdev/status/2057424064050868410
I talked about this on the standup podcast yesterday, but I'll reiterate here: if you're losing sleep because you need to keep feeding the agents STOP, I promise it's not worth it. You got caught in a [prompt -> reward] dopamine cycle and you're addicted to the feeling of the token slot machine. It's not your fault, but you need to escape before it grinds you into a pulp and you can't look at a computer for a month (this was me). If you can break out of it and spend some more time offline, or find other healthy sources of dopamine in hobbies/etc, you'll start to realize just how warped your perception was and that the thing you were chasing wasn't actually productive. https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2056815935705714945
Marc Andreessen on JRE: AI hasn't replaced coders. It turned them into vampires. / "The opportunity cost of going to sleep is too high because if you go to sleep, you won't be with your 20 AI coding agents."
https://x.com/haider1/status/2056487493084799059
Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup: / AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate / "senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it" / The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways"
]]> mobitar 2026 marcandreessen ai artificialintelligence coding productivity aibubble aihype openai anthropic google samaltman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:90291eb54cad/ Google’s big ask. | The Verge 2026-05-21T06:35:25+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/tech/934453/googles-big-ask?commentID=2016a400-4596-49ec-a792-58b1574b7cce robertogrecoAI is a very expensive way to do a lot of things that we could already do cost effectively Once you recognize this about AI, you realize that it's a pattern in almost everything these days - people are constantly looking for new ways to do things we have already solved, but the existing ways don't provide the dopamine of The New Thing, so people don't care about them. Scooping cat litter? A traditional box and regular manual scooping is blasé, gotta buy a $700 machine for that now. Eating dinner? Cooking takes time and mental effort, gotta order a stupid-expensive burrito taxi instead. Home lighting? Gotta replace analog switches with smart lights, controllable through your phone! But sometimes someone else needs to control them, so time to buy smart switches too! I'm all for integrating new things that genuinely improve our lives, but it's really incredible just how much of modern life is busywork to "solve" things that are already solved."]]]> ai artificialintelligence slow dopamine smarthomes smarthome smartlights busywork 2026 automation productivity optimization efficiency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:86d4c3cf11a2/ After OpenAI (Vandal Live at Wake Forest Humanities Institute) 2026-05-14T04:33:50+00:00 https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/afteropenai?triedRedirect=true robertogreco openai chatgpt anthropic mattseybold dereklee michaelaappeltova nisrinerahal barrytrachtenberg jeffbills-solomon deanfrnaco amandagengler 2026 emilybender timnitgebru tressiemcmillancottom micheldecerteau virginiadignum ronanfarrow andrewmarantz karenhao andyhines edhirsch tylerjohnston matthewkirschenbaum ritaraely christophernewfield brittparis annpettifor danielroher charlietyrell erichayot johnwarner jacobsilverman nichsrnicek bentarnoff mckenziewark media journalism reporting ipos opeanai samaltman spacex xai grok agiu artificialintelligence artificialgeneralintelligence suchirbalaji bigtech darioamodei microsoft alphabet oracle meta blackrock google liquidity finance wallstreet aibubble aihype speculation llms singularitarianism singularity humanextinction larryellison alexkarp china writing howwewrite text literature environment humanrights armsrace datacenters palantir us resources institutions anxiety anger futility nihilism highered highereducation colleges and universities reading howweread literac https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69c20805dd99/ 'If you go to china you'll never see the world the same way again' | Martin Jacques | UNAPOLOGETIC - YouTube 2026-05-11T01:45:28+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0wKS7flwzw robertogreco martinjacques ashfaaqcarim china history economics society asia softpower power manufacturing dominance international globalsouth culture humanrights xinjiang uyghurs donaldtrump us uk west taiwan governance government pandemic covid-19 coronavirus hongkong singapore modernity 21stcentury eastasia colonialism colonization imperialism westernization globalization 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ezravogel collectivism individualism confucius confucianism humiliation postcolonialism japan empire gdp guangdong malaysia borders civilization education nationstate civilizationstates states opiumwars culturalrevolution maotsetung maozedong ccp 1949 dengxiaoping industrialization 1972 richardnixon law legal politics lawyers engineering technology innovation science howwthingswork communism xijinping leadership 1978 ai artificialintelligence beltandroad beltandroadinitiative maga middlekingdom regimechange productivity tarde africa latinamerica infrastructure ports highways leverage rail railways hsr highspeedrail softimperial https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5fec684549db/ The Secret of the Third Monk by Tish Harrison Warren 2026-05-11T01:20:17+00:00 https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/the-secret-of-the-third-monk robertogreco tishharrisonwarren 2026 monks solitude civilization society gpd justice work labor production productivity culture time purpose life living beauty worth value humanity limits silence selfcare https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:607263959b17/ Faro Cafe 2026-05-05T15:48:33+00:00 https://thefarocafe.com/ robertogreco cambridge cafes coffeeshops slow leisure artleisure leisurearts productivity resistance connection attention presence consumerism repair community art deliberateness conversation local neighborhoods laptop-freecafes thoreau https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:68bbabae0edd/ Vicky Osterweil on Disney, Intellectual Property and Storytelling - YouTube 2026-05-03T19:43:34+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StrpSp8anQM robertogreco vickyosterweil ip intellectualproperty culture film disney 2026 entertainment technology medicine popularculture imagination howwewrite writing howweread reading anarchism storytelling looting law legal policestate police policing filmmaking characters marvel monopolies music books covid-19 coronavirus pandemic vaccines pharmaceuticals consolidation markets capitalism innovation constitution us pirating literature copyright productivity creativity suppression francises nintendo matel videogames sequels hegemony ideology nuclearfamily individualism politics propaganda china homogenization finance financialization franchises merchandising ows occupywallstreet fandom freddiegray 2000s 2018 2012 thailand 2014 censorship hungergames guyfawkes resistance revolution davidgraeber stuarthall art artworld commodification gamegate starwars fans fanculture johnboyega daisyridley labor work workers power control socialfabric fanfiction communities community mutualaid 2020 philadelphia losangeles waltdisney mccarthyism son https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5393b930b1ac/ Alienated Leisure - by Damage Magazine and Adam Smith 2026-04-26T00:46:42+00:00 https://www.damagemag.com/p/alienated-leisure robertogreco leisure alienation freetime labor karlmarx artleisure leisurearts 2026 capitalism humannature ai artificialintelligence attentioneconomy psychology production productivity relationships connection coherence depth marcandreessen davidgraeber bullshitjobs hunting fishing criticism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1259f9d840df/ Ten years of "Alaska": Maggie Rogers on going viral and singing for 200,000 protestors - YouTube 2026-04-18T04:31:04+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5y9N1kuNk robertogreco maggierogers 2026 music songwriting musicmaking pharrell charlieharding switchedonpop fame lyrics virality stephencolbert activism art fear protest rest creativity writing collaboration howwewrite howwework protestsongs hope artmaking courage well-being wellbeing oppression donaldtrump freespeech utopia resistance dancing community solidarity togetherness social meaning meaningmaking systems change adaptability innovation growth life living meditation slow time productivity stockandflow rejuvenation goals work divinityschool gradschool society education conviviality solitude process prince spirituality joanbaez https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:af8943c86286/ OpenAI is finding ChatGPT useless - YouTube 2026-04-12T21:15:58+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2guHaoY2_Y robertogreco mobitar 2026 ai artificialintelligence openai chatgpt anthropic sora samaltman fidjisimo marketing aihype aibubble productivity meetings management aislop slop claude claudecode programming efficiency optimization agi artificialgeneralintelligence fear fearmongering llms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a61aa5cbf054/ Amazon is regretting AI - YouTube 2026-04-12T21:14:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvVo0Um1HY robertogreco mobitar ai artificialintelligence 2026 amazon coding code aibubble llms efficiency productivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f500b6c8f7c3/ China OS vs. America OS (2026 version) - by afra 2026-04-01T01:46:00+00:00 https://afraw.substack.com/p/china-os-vs-america-os-2026-version robertogreco afrawang 2026 china us siliconvalley technology oepnclaw ai artificialintelligence anthropic ycombinator sanfrancisco bayarea government governance vc venturecapital opensource alibaba minimax qwen shanghai z.ai beijing shenzhen didi kuaidi uber danwang evs power economics competition liqiang zhipu uk australia indonesia singapore london linux opencompute kubernetes hongkong nvidia openai google jensenhuang gtc2026 meta claude claudecode productivity codexxpro humancapital manus huahan dulei science bambulab 3dprinting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba140758f32d/ Bertrand Russell (1932) - Alan Jacobs 2026-03-31T08:06:35+00:00 https://social.ayjay.org/2026/03/30/bertrand-russell-modern-technic-has.html robertogreco bertrandrussell 1932 technic labor war morality productivity production wwi ww1 comfort work workers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e353747e9d07/ On Remaining Porous: research as a lived practice – KoozArch 2026-03-29T01:54:09+00:00 https://www.koozarch.com/essays/on-remaining-porous-research-as-a-lived-practice robertogreco delanyboutkan federicanotari 2026 nieuweinstituut institutions porosity unschooling unresolved altgdp openstudioproject practice research method complexity acceleration ambiguity funding planning systems concersation slow koozarch cláudiobueno akilscafe-smith sethscafe-smith loumo manuelazechner marinaoteroverzier najiabagi siegrunsalmanian brandonlabelle katíatruijen learning howwelearn knowledge trust hosting kristajantowski reinaartvanhoe renlorenbritton conclusions collapse ogrupinteiron refusal deschooling füsuntretken chrislee lunabughanem danielfrotaabreu robinhartantohonggare proximity distance evaposas life living exposure vulnerability fellowships inbetween betweenness situated time linearity alinear collectivism closure deadlines extraction norms measurement companionship pace disagreement justification burnout everyday timelines evaluation possibility deliverables progression progress accumulation hospitality unfinished temporary ephemerality productivity exhaustion inbetweenness between https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d87a9893e64/ Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom | Open Culture 2026-03-25T03:14:30+00:00 https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/lynda-barry-how-the-smartphone-is-endangering-three-ingredients-of-creativity.html robertogrecoThe phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from. — Lynda Barry In the spring of 2016, the great cartoonist and educator, Lynda Barry, did the unthinkable, prior to giving a lecture and writing class at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She demanded that all participating staff members surrender their phones and other such personal devices. Her victims were as jangled by this prospect as your average iPhone-addicted teen, but surrendered, agreeing to write by hand, another antiquated notion Barry subscribes to:
The delete button makes it so that anything you’re unsure of you can get rid of, so nothing new has a chance. Writing by hand is a revelation for people. Maybe that’s why they asked me to NASA – I still know how to use my hands… there is a different way of thinking that goes along with them.
Barry—who told the Onion’s AV Club that she crafted her book What It Is with an eye toward bored readers stuck in a Jiffy Lube oil-change waiting room—is also a big proponent of doodling, which she views as a creative neurological response to boredom:
Boring meeting, you have a pen, the usual clowns are yakking. Most people will draw something, even people who can’t draw. I say “If you’re bored, what do you draw?” And everybody has something they draw. Like “Oh yeah, my little guy, I draw him.” Or “I draw eyeballs, or palm trees.” … So I asked them “Why do you think you do that? Why do you think you doodle during those meetings?” I believe that it’s because it makes having to endure that particular situation more bearable, by changing our experience of time. It’s so slight. I always say it’s the difference between, if you’re not doodling, the minutes feel like a cheese grater on your face. But if you are doodling, it’s more like Brillo. It’s not much better, but there is a difference. You could handle Brillo a little longer than the cheese grater.
Meetings and classrooms are among the few remaining venues in which screen-addicted moths are expected to force themselves away from the phone’s inviting flame. Other settings—like the Jiffy Lube waiting room—require more initiative on the user’s part. Once, we were keener students of minor changes to familiar environments, the books strangers were reading in the subway, and those strangers themselves. Our subsequent observations were known to spark conversation and sometimes ideas that led to creative projects. Now, many of us let those opportunities slide by, as we fill up on such fleeting confections as funny videos and all-you-can-eat servings of social media. It’s also tempting to use our phones as defacto shields any time social anxiety looms. This dodge may provide short term comfort, especially to younger people, but remember, Barry and many of her cartoonist peers, including Daniel Clowes, Simon Hanselmann, and Ariel Schrag, toughed it out by making art. That’s what got them through the loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom of their middle and high school years.
"The book you hold in your hands would not exist had high school been a pleasant experience for me… It was on those quiet weekend nights when even my parents were out having fun that I began making serious attempts to make stories in comics form." - Adrian Tomine, introduction to 32 Stories
Barry is far from alone in encouraging adults to peel themselves away from their phone dependency for their creative good. Photographer Eric Pickersgill’s Removed imagines a series of everyday situations in which phones and other personal devices have been rendered invisible. (It’s worth noting that he removed the offending articles from the models’ hands, rather that Photoshopping them out later.) Computer Science Professor Calvin Newport’s book, Deep Work, posits that all that shallow phone time is creating stress, anxiety, and lost creative opportunities, while also doing a number on our personal and professional lives. Author Manoush Zomorodi’s TED Talk on how boredom can lead to brilliant ideas, below, details a weeklong experiment in battling smartphone habits, with lots of scientific evidence to back up her findings. [embed: "How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas | Manoush Zomorodi | TED" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c73Q8oQmwzo "Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity."] But what if you wipe the slate of digital distractions only to find that your brain’s just… empty? A once occupied room, now devoid of anything but dimly recalled memes, and generalized dread over the state of the world? The aforementioned AV Club interview with Barry offers both encouragement and some useful suggestions that will get the temporarily paralyzed moving again:
I don’t know what the strip’s going to be about when I start. I never know. I oftentimes have—I call it the word-bag. Just a bag of words. I’ll just reach in there, and I’ll pull out a word, and it’ll say “ping-pong.” I’ll just have that in my head, and I’ll start drawing the pictures as if I can… I hear a sentence, I just hear it. As soon as I hear even the beginning of the first sentence, then I just… I write really slow. So I’ll be writing that, and I’ll know what’s going to go at the top of the panel. Then, when it gets to the end, usually I’ll know what the next one is. By three sentences or four in that first panel, I stop, and then I say “Now it’s time for the drawing.” Then I’ll draw. But then I’ll hear the next one over on another page! Or when I’m drawing Marlys and Arna, I might hear her say something, but then I’ll hear Marlys say something back. So once that first sentence is there, I have all kinds of choices as to where I put my brush. But if nothing is happening, then I just go over to what I call my decoy page. It’s like decoy ducks. I go over there and just start messing around.
Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on our site in 2017."]]> lyndabarry slow smartphones creativity loneliness uncertainty boredom technology productivity art artmaking 2016 2026 manoushzomorodi 2017 howweread howwewrite howwemake making drawing observation noticing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:91d02c342f88/ Slop-Machine Future • Buttondown 2026-03-22T02:53:04+00:00 https://buttondown.com/dorian/archive/slop-machine-future/ robertogreco ai artificialintelligence doriantaylor 2026 slop aislop claudecode claude anthropic chatbots shovelware productivity gtd hallucinations adambecker sora alphafold openclaw edzitron labor work llms code coding friction frictionlessness pachinko joeweisenthal chatgpt machinelearning openai google gemini samaltman surveillance nvidia technology karenhao chile finance aibubble apple bioweapons jeanbaudrillard baudrillard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c6d5c4723284/ Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried. 2026-03-22T02:19:08+00:00 https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-making-us-stupid-cal-newport-is-worried robertogreco calnewport ai artificialintelligence 2026 colleges universities academia highered highereducation education productivity howwelearn learning writing howwewrite concentration attention experience humanexperience humans human humanism thinking howwethink https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ecb20d7618e8/ Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier? - Cal Newport 2026-03-20T06:58:15+00:00 https://calnewport.com/why-hasnt-ai-made-work-easier/ robertogrecoai labor productivity calnewport artificialintelligence technology efficiency 2026 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9eced9b8dd5e/ Full article: The (im)possibility of AI literacy 2026-03-10T06:34:28+00:00 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2026.2615553 robertogreco lucipangrazio 2026 ai artificialintelligence ailiteracy education literacy production productivity ethics via:javierarbona https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c77253dc61a2/ They Built Stepford AI and Called It “Agentic” 2026-03-04T03:37:34+00:00 https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called robertogreco ai artificialintelligence gender misogyny patriarchy 2026 abiawomosu technology stepfordwives iralevin robots amazon alexa microsoft cortana jessalingel katecrawford siri apple inequality labor work capitalism production productivity reproduction economics economy infrastructure secondbrain obsidian roam napoleonhill women openai chatgpt sycophancy claude anthropic google gemini xai grok meta llama servitude automation customerservice carework care caring sherryturkle resistance servants slavery margaretrossiter extraction outsourcing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d73a2598a407/ In Weak Job Market, Middle Managers Increasingly Forced to Feign AI Success | TechPolicy.Press 2026-02-27T21:09:58+00:00 https://www.techpolicy.press/in-weak-job-market-middle-managers-increasingly-forced-to-feign-ai-success/ robertogrecoai artificialintelligence business dianaenriquez efficiency productivity 2026 labor work jobmarket hiring https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ae52bde8eff/ AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite. | University of California 2026-02-27T07:32:30+00:00 https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ai-promised-free-workers-time-uc-berkeley-haas-researchers-found-opposite robertogreco xingqimaggieye 2026 ai artificialintelligence productivity arunaranganathan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:93b274704492/ Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview 2026-02-23T22:55:00+00:00 https://disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-anti-human-worldview/ robertogreco parismarx 2026 openai artificialintelligence ai chatgpt transhumanism tescreal human humans dehumanization agi billionaires accountability begligence aihype responsibility productivity chatbots negligence artificialgeneralintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:82ebb99a99bb/ The Broken Record 2026-02-22T00:59:38+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/ robertogreco audreywatters 2026 edtech alphaschool altschool rocketship children democracy agency teaching howweteach chatbots opeanai artificialintelligence ai community optimization curiosity contemplation optimism productivity efficiency openness transparency moocs michaelpershan danmeyer emanuelmaiberg markzuckerberg reidhoffman marcandreessen learning howelearn pedagogy schools schooling samkriss roylee meta facebook cameras privacy surveillance highered highereducation colleges universities academia automation technooptimism chunginlee mooc technolgy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2d78fa8c2787/ Achieving independence for the sake of mutual interdependence 2026-02-16T01:37:22+00:00 https://connectivetissue.substack.com/p/achieving-independence-for-the-sake robertogreco 2026 conviviality ivanillich society lewismumford hanaharendt jacquesellul technology institutions convivialtools freedom modernity hospitality humanism scale imagination autonomy independence interdependence mutualaid burial death dying deschoolingsociety deschooling education schools schooling unschooling competency tools gps navigation place local scalability memory flourishing celebration conversation life living craiggray values neilpostman marshallmcluhan walterong agency existence simoneweil philosophy witness thomashughes ai artificialintelligence generativeai inevitability efficiency optimization productivity josephweizenbaum amish ecosystems luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites community individualism communitarianism gkchesterson turingtest humans human humannature skill depth capacity douglasrushkoff neigborliness trust lmsacasas genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2dcf68a54905/ Gaming the System - Comment Magazine 2026-02-16T00:22:17+00:00 https://comment.org/gaming-the-system/ robertogreco us society loneliness boredom despair scottpell youth socialisolation isolation economics rustbelt hannaharendt socialcapital economy gentrification professionalclass class mentalhealth socialengagement gerontocracy agesegregation children adolescence videogames games gaming men gender saraheekhoffzylstra agency matthewloftus genz generationz opportunity jonathanhaidt keantwenge claremorell withdrawal jdvance policy birthrate addiction chrisopherlasch patrickdeneen elites elitism midwest behavior dystopia production productivity rural socialization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:477d55651344/ 90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry (Interconnected) 2026-02-16T00:05:52+00:00 https://interconnected.org/home/2026/02/06/sanding robertogrecoThe very features of the sport that the ‘C’ swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring-swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours, say-they find peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or therapeutic. … It is incorrect to believe that top athletes suffer great sacrifices to achieve their goals. Often, they don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it. From The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers (1989) by Daniel Chambliss (PDF). ------ But remember that 90% of everything is sanding. With domestic appliances, sanding is preparing to put things into machines and handling things when you take them out of the machines. This “drudgery” will be taken away. So then there will be new sanding. Inevitably! With domestic robots, what will the new continuous repetitive micro task be? Will I have to empty its lint trap? Will I have to polish its eyes every night? Will I have to go shopping for it, day after day, or just endlessly answer the door to Amazon deliveries of floor polish and laundry tabs? Maybe the future is me carrying my robot up the stairs and down the stairs and up the stairs and down the stairs, forever. I worry that I won’t love future sanding as much as I love today sanding."]]> mattwebb productivity maintenance sanding effort friction swimming work labor howwework repetition drudgery laundry robots automation wordworking craft danielchambliss appliances care caring hardfun fragglerock dishwashing waymo claude ai artificialintelligence llms claudecode coding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:159e49c1d5b7/ What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian 2026-02-08T07:56:42+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/29/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back robertogreco 2026 rebeccasolnit technology society externalities privacy attention communication ai artificialintelligence mentalhealth luddism neoluddism luddites neoluddites gathering connection disconnecting socialmedia internet web online efficiency productivity profits convenience friction slow democracy withdrawal discord human humanism karenhao love sherryturkle sociology psychology well-being wellbeing cluely meta google googleglass chatgpt openai edmondrostand cyranodebergerac relationships conviviality siliconvalley corporations corporatism tyranny embodiment social mollycrockett dalailama activism spirituality humans humanity capitalism togetherness carissavéliz ethics therapy maytaleyal loneliness consciousness deeptime scale nature dehumanization resistance eveyday https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f76dae03ff20/ ambivalence and authority | sara hendren 2026-01-25T21:55:58+00:00 https://sarahendren.com/2026/01/25/ambivalence-and-authority/ robertogrecoLasch’s work is an extended quarrel with modernity, defined as the advance of an overlapping, mutually reinforcing phalanx of political centralization, mass production, expanded consumption, automation, geographic mobility, the bureaucratization of education, medicine, and family life, moral cosmopolitanism, and legal universalism. Against this barrage of abstractions, Lasch insisted on the fact of human scale. The human creature has a specific evolutionary endowment and gestational history. As a result, the human infant has a powerful and threatening fantasy life, which it can only outgrow gradually, through a range of close-up interactions, involving both authority and love, with the same caregivers over many years. The bureaucratic rationalization of work and intimate life plays havoc with this scheme of development, producing a weak self, stripped of traditional skills, tools, and autonomy, entirely dependent on large forces beyond its comprehension, much less control, and crippled by ambivalence toward remote, impersonal authority. What sustained the strong pre-modern self was the virtue of hope; what sustains the weak modern self is the ideology of progress."]]> sarahendren christopherlasch georgescialabba modernity humanism scale humanscale ideology progress hope ambivalence authority love bureaucracy work life living skills autonomy tools comprehension abstraction universalism cosmopolitanism education medicing familylife morality centralization politics massproduction production productivity consumerism consumption charlestaylor alasdairmacintyre https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c400faa0c83b/ 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica 2026-01-19T22:13:30+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/10-things-i-learned-from-burning-myself-out-with-ai-coding-agents/ robertogreco aia artificialintelligence code coding programming development 2026 benjedwards codingagents claudecode claude openai gemini google simonwillison eniac trainingdata llms generativeai agi artificialgeneralintelligence productivity work howwework burnout efficiency optimization busyness v:justinpickard genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b5dc5734c193/ Gabriel Zucman, economist: 'The idea of a sclerotic Europe facing a American El Dorado has little basis in fact' 2026-01-10T22:05:32+00:00 https://archive.ph/fGe9V robertogreco gabrielzucman 2026 economics economy qualityoflife europe us productivity socialsafetynet leisure eu life living gdp germany france italia italy spain españa netherlands belgium inequality costofliving donaldtrump growth freetime https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:17eebbeb44ec/ 2025 letter | Dan Wang 2026-01-04T07:12:10+00:00 https://danwang.co/2025-letter/ robertogreco sanwang 2025 china siliconvalley sanfrancisco technology bayarea stanford bigtech insularity culture vc venturecapital finance beijing elitism meritocracy peterthiel institutions losangeles nyc wealth esa-pekkasalonen disruption governance government elonmusk effectivealtruism morality ethics diversity capitalism society boston academia highered highereducation colleges universities gatekeeping media mainstreammedia us california politics ai artificialintelligence nickbostrom superintelliegence darioamodei anthropic taiwan 2014 samaltman openai deepseek qwen meta shanghai immigration donaldtrump maga trumpism qianxuesen power energy electricity leninism communism socialism deanball computing computation economics economy intellectualproperty ip tesla gigafactory productivity manufacturing cars xiaomi evs arthurkroeber dragonomics infrastructure rail railways aircraft airbus boeing alexandergrothendieck drones robots robotics xijinping highspeedrail hsr trains marcandreessen huawei barackobama industry populat https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e6e1c2fc10c4/ Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life 2025-12-29T20:58:50+00:00 https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/ robertogreco joanwestenberge small slow desire audiencesofone motivation productivity philosophy life living 2025 minimalism fulfillment social socialconnection connection vulnerability partnership shorcuts friction addiction efficiency accomplishment effort happiness well-being wellbeing convenience inconvenience gratification delayedgratification frictionlessness meaning meaningmaking optimization communication metrics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8757648eecab/ Opinion | Europe Is in Decline. Good. - The New York Times 2025-12-23T06:02:34+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/opinion/europe-decline-economy-china.html robertogreco 2025 europe antonjäger michelhouellebecq hans-georggadamer ukraine donaldtrump mariodraghi policy eu us josepborrellfontelles sweden brussels china uk adamtooze neoliberalism erichobsbawm decline politics 2014 productivity economics economy climatechange climate globalwarming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:502b5552c7fe/ The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life, by Ian Bogost (2026) | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster 2025-12-13T03:41:56+00:00 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Small-Stuff/Ian-Bogost/9781668062630 robertogreco ianbogost slow small cv humans humanism humanity friction convenience efficiency optimization life living howwelive design disconnection dissatisfaction happiness gratification senses joy pleasure everyday 2026 mundane sensory mindfulness texture noticing attention curiosity wonder ordinary experience imagination openness dematerialization material materials frictionmaxxing digital analog algorithms asmr ai artificialintelligence process communing sensors automation ownership connection physical bodies objects tactile smartphones addiction compulsion strangeness frictionlessness smoothness socialmedia commodification commercialization feeling embodiment affection sensing technology play acceptance delight engagement alienphenomenology phenomenology grahamharman panexperientialism thomasnagel interfaces screens productivity contentment smallstuff lingering feelings discomfort wonderment human humanness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:344d3e09245e/ How to Argue with Pro-Capitalist Cultists 2025-12-08T03:19:21+00:00 https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/how-to-argue-with-pro-capitalist robertogreco capitalism economics anticapitalism 2025 leecamp peterjoseph society sociopaths power wealth globalsouth exploitation climate climatechange environment negativeexternalities work labor hardwork productivity efficiency behavior competition inequality taxes taxation tyranny meritocracy entrepreneurship entrepreneurialism socialism poverty allocation resources misery marketfundamentalism cults indoctrination consumerism freedom consumption innovation progress civilization ideology freedomtochoose housing healthcare food waste tina wellbeing well-being socialcohesion community health prosperity commons infrastructure publicgood marketsystems ecology economy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:df8c782c4e2e/ Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, by Carolyn Chen (2022) | Princeton University Press 2025-12-03T07:01:32+00:00 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691219080/work-pray-code robertogreco carolynchen siliconvalley religion productivity optimization efficiency californianideology work labor 2022 via:javierarbona https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f986d9573e93/ Late Empire Life Extension - Ayesha A. Siddiqi 2025-11-29T01:03:34+00:00 https://ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empire-life-extension robertogreco ayeshasiddiqi aesthetics fascism rightwing farright 2025 longevity aging beuaty west latefascistaesthetics fascistaesthetics waronterror ant-aging society oldage us capitalism medicine plasticsurgery franklydson sergevoronoff johnbrinkley canada australia uk colonialism colonization germany occupation freud williambutleryeats johnwilliampolidori mikedavis productivity purity lebensreform lifereform switzerland austria michaelhau health wellness gender reactionaries england fitbit pilates wearables oura samsung smartrings barackobama drones lifestyle donaldtrump maga trumpism bryanjohnson longtermism projectblueprint racism iraq afghanistan pakistan yemen andersbreivik foxnews jeaninepirro afd sweden emmanuelmacron nicolassarkozy winstonchurchill hitler adolfhitler grievance economics genocide violence alligatoralcatraz misogyny fitness security skincare goop gwynethpaltrow japan korea kimkardashian skims medicube ya-man makeup cosmetics ninapark looksmaxxing johnmew dentistry mewing rfkjr robertkennedyjr indi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0b900ceaebc7/ Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation | Aeon Essays 2025-11-17T17:48:16+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation robertogreco victorians quantifiedself diaries measurement monitoring self-monitoring optimization time bigtech history elenamary technology self self-improvement self-quantification quantification productivity capitalism consumption samuelsmiles industrialization imperialism bureaucracy meetings appointments finance transactions timetables almanacs johnletts johnbeadle puritans salvation religion christianity johnevelyn samuelpepys queenvictoria petergay rebeccasteinitz gossip arguments georgegrossmith weedongrossmith charlespooter williamgladstone anne-mariemillim robertnunns charlesdarwin sharonmarcus princessvictoria text elizabethcollins annelister elizaraine philippelejeune society stfancollini habits trains greenwichmeantime standardization standards wrgreg beatricewebb psychology philosophy sociology hcgmatthew anxiety progress speed darwin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1238407a44e8/ Monopoly Round-Up: Does the Left Have Trouble with Making Things in America? 2025-10-26T05:14:30+00:00 https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-left-can-protest robertogreco mattstoller us economics manufacturing labor populism 2025 finance monetarypolicy policy work judithstein nafta wto billclinton georgewbush georgeball henrykissinger deindustrialization prices monopolies coldwar wallstreet extraction extractivism rentextraction rent amazon commodities commodification neoliberalism bureaucracy pricing capitalgoods wages incomes production productivity business racism xenophobia immigration peterorzag berniesanders healthcare services privatebureaucracy diplomacy fdr wrightpatman louisbrandeis democracy china libertians liberals liberalism libertarianism egalitarianism derekguy adamposen franklindelanoroosevelt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ea5d7ac4fa08/ Now Is the Time of Monsters 2025-10-24T20:15:42+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-time-of-monsters/ robertogreco audreywatters 2025 edtech ai artificialintelligence aws amazon web internet online schools schooling education highered highereducation academia criticalthinking colleges universities technology fandom monsters democrats antoniogramsci davidroth politics elections maine nyc zohranmamdani efficiency productivity generativeai superintelligence charliewarzel aislop slop fads hype agency autonomy cognition grahamplatner genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6ef4659623c8/ Drs. Wolff & Ware DESTROY Gavin Newsom on AIPAC/Housing/Economy (with Richard Wolff & Butch Ware) - YouTube 2025-10-23T23:14:21+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRmsacWQn-g robertogreco richardwolff gavinnewsom briahnajoygray 2025 politics economics inequality socialism capitalism housing medicareforall vanlathan rachellindsay billclinton california policy aipac israel palestine zionism ethniccleansing genocide zohranmamdani china kamalaharris joebiden mahmoodmamdani democrats republicans cooption abundance abundancemovement abundancenetwork corporations corporatism lobbying elections left organizing classconsciousness history ronaldreagan walterrodney malcolmx fascism authoritarianism barackobama greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis ows occupywallstreet materialneeds society crisis austria vienna socialhousing reform imperialism whitesupremacy dnc karlmarx ralphnader berniesanders losangeles bourgeoisie economy class workers work labor productivity profits charliekirk trickledowneconomics reaganomics katieporter corybooker politicians jpac antizionism gaza abundanceagenda cooptation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:82481613a798/ Where’s the AI design renaissance? 2025-10-16T05:28:29+00:00 https://www.learnui.design/blog/wheres-the-ai-design-renaissance.html robertogreco erikkennedy ai artificialintelligence 2025 uptonsinclair design process howwework midjourney 2022 aihype productivity aibubble vibecoding coding mikejudge github interestrates covid-19 pandemic coronavirus overhiring chatbots humanism human humans ui blandness llms deeplearning generativeai slop aislop constraints genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:912bf048e92c/ Out of Your Car, Off Your Horse, by Wendell Berry (1991) - The Atlantic 2025-10-15T23:20:03+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1991/02/out-your-car-your-horse/309159/ robertogreco 1991 wendellberry local small slow affection politics dorothyday sustainability environment economics farming locality globalization global nyc poenix diversity ecology loce humility care caring culture love loving howwelive living life abstraction earth wealth power decentralization information education knowledge institutions industry property employers employment freedom liberation rural geography fossilfuels human humans humanism humanity wwii ww2 production productivity cities urban urbanism kentucky globalthinking us williamblake scale https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7639679fd34e/ Creative destruction is a miracle. It’s also a political problem. 2025-10-15T06:02:51+00:00 https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/creative-destruction-is-a-miracle robertogreco jerusalemdemsas 2025 economics abundance abundancemovement abundancenetwork ezraklein derekthompson scarcity redistribution inequality gdp growth joelmokyr philippeaghion peterhowitt industrialrevolution luddites luddism enlightenment uk economy creativedestruction destruction change labor work workers nimbys nimby nimbyism yimby yimbys yimbyism housing housingcrisis innovation uber lyft taxis taximedallions mattbruenig healthcare childtaxcredit welfarestate policy liberalism energy transportation productivity zoning openai google abundanceagenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7d4fe974cb10/ Fighting San Francisco's Manhattanization with Tim Redmond - YouTube 2025-10-08T20:56:00+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHMGb-dLfOU&t=1s robertogreco sanfrancisco timredomnd joelengardio daniellurie doomloop doomloopdispatch crime 2025 yimby yimbyism yimbys nimby nimbyism transit publictransit infrastructure housing scottwiener recalls politics policy displacement rentcontrol media urbanurbanism urbanplannign denisty elections inequality taxes taxation eisenhower richardnixon history dwightdeisenhower construction profit profits marhetrateghousing vancouver britishcolumbia zoning aiboom aibubble artificialintelligence ai affordability opeanai chatgpt kevinjones dscotmiller salesforce speculation displacment ronaldreagan homelessness homeless gentrification socialsafetynet sros redevelopment neoliberalism economics california us publichousing 1960s developers housingcrisis affrodability nyc latecapitalism latestagecapitalism billclinton joebiden barackobama race racism reaganism irs data coyotemedia soleilho planning vienna socialhousing donaldtrump taxrate stockholm cities finance socialism universityofcalifornia wealth socialservices publicgood productivi https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cef0764ac7f4/ Everything Is Becoming a Bank 2025-10-08T02:52:45+00:00 https://jacobin.com/2025/10/bankification-financialization-debt-interest-credit/ robertogreco us banks banking bankification finance financialization economics money business 2025 extraction productivity lukegoldstein regulation debt commerce financing creditcards credit profits profit capitalism latecapitalism financialservices monopolies apgiannini transamerica johnpierpontmorgan jaygould corporations corporatism deregulation 1980s neoliberalism wallstreet privateequit manufacturing society bradlipton fdic risk joebiden generalmotors generalelectric loopholes law legal doff-frankact andreessemhorowitz fintech siliconvalley ai crypto cryptocurrencies artificialintelligence insurance data datacollection google amazon meta facebook openai payment applepay paypal venmo cashapp digitalwallets markets consumers amandafischer bettermarkets sec rohitchopra costco disney netflix nascar chase capitalone americanexpress airlines delta starbucks dunkin healthcare exploitation elirushbanks dollarfor medicaid predation uber lyft ridesharing debitcards affirm klarna afterpay twitter square jackdorsey juno synapse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c713815fb8b6/ How to hack time like a tech bro: Strategic LSD, paid Hinge dates, and AI agents 2025-10-01T15:36:40+00:00 https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/01/hack-time-tech-bro-strategic-lsd-paid-hinge-dates-ai-agents/ robertogreco 2025 ryajetha margauxmaccoll sanfrancisco technology optimization drugs work worklifebalance productivity cults startups ai artificialintelligence chatgpt jasparcarmichael-jack chatbots jacksondenka azura matejcernosek cyrilgorlla fasting zachdive cluely roylee openai nicholaslopex business culture psychedelics chunginlee https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae5526b3afe6/ Bullsh*t Writing - by John Warner 2025-09-29T19:32:51+00:00 https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/bullsht-writing robertogreco johnwarner writing howwewrite ai artificialintelligence 2025 bullshitwriting bullshitjobs davidgraeber generativeai llms samharris marcandreessen chatgpt openai ethanmollick business tedchiang capitalism 2023 busywork taskmasters hallmonitors bureaucracy gdp economics nurses nursing administration managment teaching howweteach productivity efficiency society wellbeing well-being garrisonlovely mckinsey lobbyists lobbying pr telemarketers imperfection humans human algorithms creativity genai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1153b3baa3ec/ AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable 2025-09-26T16:02:32+00:00 https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/ robertogreco ai artificialintelligence aislop slop work labor workers productivity efficiency jasonkoebler https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dde1f3a3b339/ Hurry-up-quick! | A Working Library 2025-09-25T23:29:13+00:00 https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/hurry-up-quick robertogreco mandybrown haste slow stephenjaygould production productivity iq tests testing ursulaleguin race racism hierarchy supremacy rest human humanism intelligence wisdom redundancy urgency speed efficiency optimization ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:272d47deee73/ The Death of Free Trade - YouTube 2025-09-22T19:01:52+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOYGt7EKG8 robertogreco 2025 unlearningeconomics economics globalization joebiden donaldtrump natdreyer benchu brankomilanovic charmainechua trade tariffs jairbolsonaro nationalism brazil brasil sweden germany davidgraeber narendamodi china india ukraine russia vladimirputin us eu xijingping paulkrugman freedtrade politics policy labor technocracy justinwolfers autarky davidricardo adamsmith wealthofnations divisionoflabor work workers employment production productivity manufacturing thewestwing consumerism consumption 2000s 1990s hyperglobalization power inequality wages jobs unemployment thewire culture geopolitics shipping crime society democracy danirodrik economists laborunions unions efficiency davidautor poverty outsourcing comparativeadvantage 2019 2024 offshoring elections nafta mexico tradedeals isolation isolationism dopesick uk denmark latinamerica miltonfriedman neoliberalism portugal slavery westafrica gold colonialism colonization spain españa europe france england susanstrange cahalmoran https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b8f581f93457/ The Art of Doing Nothing - YouTube 2025-09-19T17:17:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezMUkOoQbqU robertogrecofaizalwestcott photography presence noticing attention observation wandering flaneur drifting strolling streetphotography being listening allthesenses flâneurs flaneurs flâneur idleness slow time capitalism resistance productivity silence production nyc streets rest control everyday timewasting wastingtime life living meaning meaningmaking beauty stillness seeing drift https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7f832f197eef/ We’re Losing the Plot on School | IDEO.org 2025-09-09T16:33:08+00:00 https://www.ideo.org/perspective/whats-school-for robertogreco dianed'costa schools eduction ideo design 2025 schooling care caring community learning howwelearn collaboration individualism personalization work production productivity lcproject openstudioproject life living wellbeing behavior disconnection burnout academics well-being https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a615a1d169d7/ The hardest part about getting older? Learning how to do nothing 2025-09-09T16:29:26+00:00 https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/aging-doing-nothing-20824431.php robertogreco bobbrody 2025 aging slow idleness attention unschooling deschooling age productivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a64582d419af/ The death of the corporate job. - by Alex - Still Wandering 2025-09-05T17:33:40+00:00 https://thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-corporate-job robertogreco work bullshitjobs davidgraeber 2025 alexmccann economics meaning meaninglessness latecapitalism capitalism efficiency productivity corporations corporatism resistance purpose meaningmaking professionalmanagerialclass pmc middleware middlemanagement management leadership administration guesswork workforce labor via:lukeneff latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b753cba78488/