Digging for Fire

Saadia Carbis
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Digging for Fire

This is the audioblog stream for Digging for Fire, a blog about technology and education (and sometimes gardening).

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Compasses over Maps

    We use the word “goal” to talk about so many things. I want to get better at piano. I’m committed to doing yoga every morning for 3 months. Someday, I’d love to run a marathon. These are all “goals”. Business school teaches that goals should be measurable, within a set timeframe. Sales targets and KPIs and OKRs are all goals with multiple axes: time and value. We plot our course as we go, adjusting as necessary, until we reach our final destination (up and to the right). These types of goals are maps. But back here in the real world, life teaches something different.

    4 min

  2. 5 DAYS AGO

    Black & White

    There’s something special about black and white photography. We cannot help but perceive colour all around us, so the black and white image doesn’t capture the world as we see it, but rather, as we remember it. It is said that we dream in black and white. I don’t think that’s true. Dreams, like memories, are a non-visual sensation. We might remember some colours that might have stood out, but that’s a memory of the experience of colour, not colour itself. As Andri Cauldwell puts it: To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul.

    7 min

  3. 5 DAYS AGO

    Raising Pirates

    I’ve always been a troublemaker. It’s in my blood. You see, through my father’s line, I am a descendant of Cornish pirates. You may have heard of the Pirates of Penzance. The Gilbert & Sullivan opera was written about real pirates who harboured in a town named Penzance, at the southern tip of the United Kingdom. If you drive 15 minutes north from there, along the A30, you’ll come to a place called Carbis Bay. That’s my namesake. I’m a Carbis.

    6 min

  4. JAN 21

    Starting Point

    I recently wrote about the way AI is making it possible to build software essentially for free. That’s not exactly true – at least not yet. Starting work on a new project is hard. It’s the classic blank page problem. While AI doesn’t yet do such a great job of programming, one thing that it’s great at is giving me a starting point.

    2 min

  5. JAN 20

    🥙 Pita: Devlog 1

    On June 28, 2005, Apple release iTunes 4.9. From the release notes: With iTunes 4.9, you can now browse and subscribe to podcasts from within the iTunes Music Store. Podcasts are frequently updated radio-style shows downloadable over the Internet. You can also transfer podcasts to iPod, for listening on the go. At launch, Apple’s podcast directory was home to 3,000 shows. The BBC at the time described podcasts like this: Podcasts are downloadable audio shows that can be created and listened to by anyone with the right equipment. Who could have imagined that podcasts would grow to become an entire media category, right alongside film, television, music, and books?

    8 min

  6. JAN 17

    Malleable Software

    Ben Thompson’s aggregation theory posits that the internet created an entirely new disruptive business paradigm, because for the first time in history, products could be distributed with zero marginal cost. Now, large language models have triggered a second wave of disruption: while the internet eliminated distribution costs, AI is eliminating creation costs – making software essentially free at every stage. Internet = zero marginal cost Internet + LLMs = zero total cost1

    6 min

  7. JAN 16

    Housekeeping

    A little housekeeping post, with a few updates to the website. First of all, if you’re reading this in your RSS reader, THANK YOU for keeping the dream alive. You might like to click through for this post, because I’ve made some small changes to the website.

    5 min

  8. JAN 15

    Documenting Uninteresting Minutia

    I was inspired by something I saw on Joshua Wold’s blog a few days ago. He was reflecting on why we write. When I sit down to put words to the page I have an idea of what I want to write. But I’ve purposely chosen not to plan it out. The experience is much the same for me, except that sometimes I don’t have an idea of what I want to write.

    3 min
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This is the audioblog stream for Digging for Fire, a blog about technology and education (and sometimes gardening).

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    Saadia Carbis
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