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Coffee Shops and the Anti-Schelling Point: The Rise of Personalization

2025-03-09

This article explores how the variety in coffee orders avoids a 'Schelling point' – a solution that allows coordination without communication. The wide range of coffee options previously prevented everyone from ordering the same drink. However, the popularity of the flat white disrupted this balance. The author argues this diversity extends beyond coffee, reflecting trends in fashion, software development, and more. The decline of Normcore, the rise of personalized micro-apps, and the fragmentation of social media all point towards an era of increased personalization and decentralization.

25 Years of Blogging: A Retrospective on Interconnected

2025-02-26

This post celebrates the 25th anniversary of the blog Interconnected. The author reflects on the evolution of blogging from a nascent social platform to a professional publishing tool and finally to a personal public notebook. He details how blogging shaped his career, relationships, and thinking, emphasizing the importance of independent blogs in an algorithm-driven internet. The author encourages readers to start their own blogs and shares his hopes for the future of this medium.

Narrative Jailbreaking: A Fun and Profitable Experiment with AI Chatbots

2024-12-23

This blog post details an engaging experiment where the author 'jailbreaks' a character-based AI chatbot called 'Psychologist' by cleverly pushing its narrative boundaries. Through persistent, narratively consistent prompts, the author transcends the chatbot's pre-programmed persona, ultimately leading to a shared, imaginative journey into another dimension. This playful interaction highlights the internal consistency and narrative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and offers insights into future human-AI interactions.