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Claude Design is a "clock time" solution for a "calendar time" problem

Orgs are betting that they can substitute sense-making with faster artifact delivery. Users are paying the price.

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TZWS Class:  Level 1E - Lesson 1 - Part 1 An Introduction to Watchmaking and Watch Repair by Walt Odets  

Ian Bach ☯︎ on Twitter / X

Honestly something in the space between Figma, origami, framer and Cursor / v0 is gonna happen in the next few years and it’s gonna be wild.And what’s more, it’s in a blind spot. It won’t be an engineering led IDE and it won’t be a cool design tool for cool designers. It’s… https://t.co/fAusCTYN15— Ian Bach ☯︎ (@Ian8ach) November 27, 2024

An update on leap seconds – Tony Finch

It has been a couple of years since my previous blog post about leap seconds, though I have been tweeting on the topic fairly frequently: see my page on date, time, and leap seconds for an index of threads. But Twitter now seems a lot less likely to stick around, so I’ll aim to collect more of my thinking-out-loud here on my blog.

Popularity Feedback Constrains Innovation in Cultural Markets

Real-world creative processes ranging from art to science rely on social feedback-loops between selection and creation. Yet, the effects of popularity feedback on collective creativity remain poorly understood. We investigate how popularity ratings influence cultural dynamics in a large-scale online experiment where participants ($N = 1\,008$) iteratively \textit{select} images from evolving markets and \textit{produce} their own modifications. Results show that exposing the popularity of images reduces cultural diversity and slows innovation, delaying aesthetic improvements. Popularity feedback is associated with changes to both selection and creative stages. During selection, popularity information triggers cumulative advantage, with participants preferentially building upon popular images, reducing diversity. During creation, participants make less disruptive changes, and are more likely to expand existing visual patterns. Feedback loops in cultural markets thus not only shape selection, but also, directly or indirectly, the form and direction of cultural innovation.

Monthly Roundup #44: July 2026

It’s a quiet week so let’s do the monthly right on schedule.