HeyJaredđź“Ľ This Analog Life
Weekly(ish) essays for those seeking analog simplicity amongst our enshittified, digital hellscape from a Xennial raised before wi-fi (who owns a lot of soapboxes).
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The People You Want to Connect With Want to Connect With You (opens the original)
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Let’s face it: The world we’ve spent decades preparing for is virtually unrecognizable. So many knowledge workers—specifically we artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs—are struggling to figure out where our expertise can still be useful. And the uncertainty of where to go next has left us feeling paralyzed, afraid, and worst of all...alone.It’s ironic that we desperately want to make things that matter, yet we’re terrified of “putting ourselves out there” and making the connections necessary to
Have the robots killed cold outreach? (opens the original)
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Yesterday a colleague forwarded me the following post from Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science at Princeton and author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snake-Oil-Artificial-Intelligence-Difference/dp/0691249148/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LOA3M3QNALSG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.lwz59lWrzrNibRu_qIYS23J_S_oVcg8VpCYyfvNMwerr50BoJIw9j3rXf7XTCD6rN4jD1GB70_1SpntyU6dpxdA3sHA6PCKWtEjMx80jotNP7os0m2GZ1cM16aifTosdh5_4X6dyxTEVvxZ9XeiGP3e2BbeZZKqAxV0a7QAhNOos8dg6Yp5NtrrLpknUkBpnRVMRdYYExWnvZer1GbWDJpm_qWYZ0DuFB66AI
We’ve lost sight of what it means to “connect” (opens the original)
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If I could sum up in a single sentence the most important thing I’ve learned from over a decade of deep conversations with hundreds of the smartest and most interesting people on the planet, it would be:The quality of our lives is dictated by the quality of our relationships.As a self-proclaimed extreme introvert, I’ve always wanted to desperately believe I’ll magically be “discovered” despite spending every waking hour working by myself in my creative cave. But I’ve learned over the years that:
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