Bookmarks #3
Go ahead and block AI web crawlers
All of this marks a clear and fundamental distinction between search crawlers and AI crawlers. The former extracts value from open content, the latter indexes and directs users to content, enhancing discoverability and aggregating data.
I've been leaning into Arc Search's "Browse For You" lately, but the implications of having something do the browsing for you for anything more significant than a trivial search are worrying indeed. A lot of the best browsing happens when you take the long road to something and allow yourself to get lost hopping from link to link.
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
We're about to drown in a sea of pedestrian takes. An explosion of noise that will drown out any signal. Goodbye to finding original human insights or authentic connections under that pile of cruft.
This article takes a good, hard look at a bad, hard problem facing the Internet. For myself, I'm hoping that sticking to platforms where monetization isn't even on the radar (e.g. Bear Blog, Scribbles, omg.lol) will keep me in touch with actual humans. It was bad enough to wade through the masses of bot accounts on social media in a pre-ChatGPT world.
Plus Minus Next journaling
We know we should keep a journal. But we don’t know how to keep a journal. I have tried most of the journaling methods out there—one line a day, free writing, doodling, the bullet journal—and none worked for me. None of them felt goal-oriented enough, and some of them required too much work.
As someone who's tried and failed many times to build a journaling habit, I'm very eager to try this.
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