This is where I share 3 things every week with my friends and anyone else interested. — A picture from my life: I helped marry David and Amanda with the power vested in me! A thing on my mind: I think about “feedback loops” all the time. Great products give people what they want, quickly. Bored? Open TikTok and you’ll be instantly entertained. Want an air fryer? Open Amazon and you’ll find the top air fryer within a few seconds, and it’ll arrive at your doorstep tomorrow. You get feedback on your desires so quickly that you’re not even sure you really want the air fryer and there it is already on your doorstep. Positive or negative, that’s kind of the magic of technology. AI promises to shorten that feedback loop even more. I write this newsletter to help me understand my thoughts and connect with my friends. The process of writing one word at a time helps me think, but once I get better at working with ChatGPT, I probably will just have a conversation with the AI and when I’m satisfied, I can ask the AI to share a piece of writing in my style with you all. That’ll probably be easier (and Ricky Weekly can actually come Weekly), but it’d feel very different for me and for you if you knew that’s how I’m doing it. I write for the “experience.” The experience of struggling to understand my thoughts well enough to express them, and the experience of sharing what I find out with you and have you recognize the thoughtfulness, enough to maybe elicit a connection or response. Of course, this is not to say AI-powered products can’t also create this experience for me. In fact, that sounds like an extremely fun project to work on.
Love this quote: "The experience of struggling to understand my thoughts well enough to express them, and the experience of sharing what I find out with you and have you recognize the thoughtfulness, enough to maybe elicit a connection or response"
Also +1 RE Asian Americans making it in entertainment. Loved Beef on Netflix as well.
Love this quote: "The experience of struggling to understand my thoughts well enough to express them, and the experience of sharing what I find out with you and have you recognize the thoughtfulness, enough to maybe elicit a connection or response"
Also +1 RE Asian Americans making it in entertainment. Loved Beef on Netflix as well.