Daily Archives: May 4, 2025

Sorting and choosing | Seth’s Blog

One is far more important than the other. Sorting puts our options into two piles. One pile is the don’t-like, not-good-enough or wrong stack. These are the flavors we don’t enjoy, the paths that are dead ends and the people we simply don’t want to hang out with. The other pile meets spec. The other…

LLMs Don’t Reward Originality, They Flatten It

Originality is idealized, especially in tech and marketing. We’re told to “think different,” to coin new terms, to pioneer ideas no one’s heard before and share our thought leadership.  But in the age of AI-driven search, originality is not the boon we think it is. It might even be a liability… or, at best, a…