Notices by MacSparky (macsparky@mastodon.social)

On Pain and Happiness: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/07/on-pain-and-happiness/

A listener recently wrote in about something that stopped him mid-page. He’d picked up Gregory Hays’s translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, while working through a hard stretch in his life, looking to Stoicism for a foothold. Then he hit a line in Hays’s introduction: “Marcus does not offer us a means of achieving happiness, but... Continue reading →

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The Silent Film Era of AI: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/05/the-silent-film-era-of-ai/

The first movies were shot from a theater seat. The camera sat where the audience would have sat. The actors moved across the frame like they were on a stage, and the shot didn’t change for the whole picture. You were watching a play that someone had happened to have filmed. It took years before... Continue reading →

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The MacBook Neo’s Unfair Advantage: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/03/the-macbook-neos-unfair-advantage/

Steven Sinofsky, who ran the Windows division at Microsoft, picked up a MacBook Neo on launch day and wrote a long, reflective piece about it on his Substack. He called it “a paradigm shifting computer”. Coming from the guy who shipped Windows 8 and Surface, that’s not faint praise. MKBHD went further in his review,... Continue reading →

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AI Agents Need Guardrails: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/02/ai-agents-need-guardrails/

Misguided Optimization – Seth Godin: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2026/02/misguided-optimization-seth-godin/

The Inherent Value of the Creative Act: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/10/the-inherent-value-of-the-creative-act/

A Remarkable, Unremarkable Thing: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/07/a-remarkable-unremarkable-thing/

Amazon is Tightening the Screws on Kindle Books: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2025/02/amazon-is-tightening-the-screws-on-kindle-books/