💥Thought Shrapnel newsletter #448

Social web fragmentation, hiring is broken, and the societal side-eye

💥 Best of Thought Shrapnel

• The fragmentation of the (social) web

• The Societal Side-eye

• Don’t tell me that hiring isn’t broken

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✍️ The rest of Thought Shrapnel

• You’ll be hearing a lot more about nodules

• Our ancestors were using complex tools and woodworking approaches almost half a million years ago

• Pufflings can’t resist the bright lights of the city

• Co-Intelligence, GPTs, and autonomous agents

• Small sufferings

• Twitter now feels like the Brewster’s Millions of tech

• Bill Gates on why AI agents are better than Clippy

• AI generated images in a time of war

• The first half of life is Tetris; the second half is Jenga

• Accepting and trying to deal with climate as an overriding priority

• Therapy is simple

• Sitting staring at a wall for hours

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📚 Currently reading

• Politics On The Edge by Rory Stewart (audiobook)

• Everything is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

This week I finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro which was great.

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Rushing to get this out I’ve had a busy week, working on my new MSc in Systems Thinking. Weeknote out on my personal blog tomorrow, so see you next Sunday!

PS Why not leave a comment and tell me which was your favourite link this week?

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