John MacGaffey

What to Read 🚕 Cruise robotaxis blocked traffic for hours on this San Francisco street — TechCrunch Anyone who's gotten stuck in a company's automated phone menu that couldn't route them to a relevant employee knows that automation is great until it's not. When

💗 A Jazz Drummer’s Fight to Keep His Own Heart Beating — NY Times Milford Graves was a groundbreaking percussionist who combined his craft with the study of how music impacts the heart. In a tragic twist of fate, he was diagnosed with amyloid cardiomyopathy ("stiff heart syndrome") in

🎨 AI Art Isn't Art — The Intrinsic Perspective The question of "what is art?" will only get harder to answer as computers take over increasingly sophisticated creative work. Erik Hoel has a thought-provoking piece on whether the coming tsunami of AI-generated "art" can even be

🇺🇸 A Simple Plan to Solve All of America’s Problems — The Atlantic Derek Thompson recently launched a new project called "Progress" at The Atlantic. It's "a special series focused on two big questions: How do you solve the world’s most important problems? And how

What to Read 📚 I'm Put on the Spot—and Forced to Defend the Humanities in a Room Full of Medical Students — The Honest Broker What do doctors and writers have in common? They both grapple with the human condition for a living. Ted Gioia reminds us that we