@MattCASmith

Cyber security professional writing about technology, business, and culture. https://xitter.cf/t.co/qrgBvLlktF

 London, UK
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@MattCASmithOct 18
📬 This month's Field Notes is about slowing down, doing one thing at a time, and noticing the little things. Sign up to get November's edition first! mattcasmith.net/2026/10/18/f…

Field Notes 15 // Monotasking and the lost art of focus | MattCASmith

This month's Field Notes restores presence, cutting out the endless background noise to focus on one thing at a time in both work and leisure – and asks whether a business can scale with the same...

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@gammichanOct 16
You can tell a person's entire life philosophy by whether their reaction to the Tesla roadster was criticizing it or yelling HELL YEAH
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a car just did something straight out of science fiction and half the internet immediately started debating commercial viability not every engineering achievement needs a fucking business model. you are allowed to experience wonder
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@MattCASmithOct 11
When it comes to productivity, I think the best use of AI is to handle the busywork to free up more time for you to think and apply context. mattcasmith.net/2026/10/11/a…

AI can do the legwork, but you need to do the thinking | MattCASmith

Building slides, proofing text, generating images... AI can handle much of our day-to-day busywork. Your role as a human is to do the thinking required to keep it on track and appropriately refine...

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@MattCASmithOct 6
Manchester City are trying to garner fan support for their appeal – but people prefer simple narratives, and theirs has arguably become more complex than the Premier League's. mattcasmith.net/2026/10/04/m…
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@usgraphicsOct 5
Modernize nothing. Improve everything.
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@JoshDanceOct 1
babe are you ok? it’s already q4 and you’ve barely touched your “2026 roadmap”
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@MattCASmithSep 28
Quality and care nurtures trust between a business and its customers. Punishing customers for their mistakes to boost short-term revenue undoes all that hard work. mattcasmith.net/2026/09/27/f…
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@MattCASmithSep 25
In September's edition of Field Notes, I learn that the frontier AI models are no good at identifying cars from photos. mattcasmith.net/2026/09/20/f…
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@MattCASmithSep 20
📥 September's Field Notes explores luck, empathy, and gratitude as a means of pushing through when bad things happen. October's edition is coming soon, so sign up now to get it first at the turn of the month. mattcasmith.net/2026/09/20/f…

Field Notes 14 // Hospitals, grindset cafés, and Weezer | MattCASmith

We can't stop bad things from happening to us, but we can change how we react. This month: Hospital visits, LLMs that struggle to identify a car, London's new 24/7 grindset café, and a new Weezer...

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Lance McDonald@manfightdragonSep 17
Chrome on iOS got an update today, now the "Back" button has been moved to a new location, and where "Back" used to be is an "Ask Gemini" button. Now they can show off a 60,000,000% increase in people "choosing" to "ask gemini" because they accidentally press that button.
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@MattCASmithSep 17
Recent AI "misalignments" were the result of improper supervision and isolation, not super-advanced agents set on destroying the world. But in some ways, that's just as concerning. mattcasmith.net/2026/09/13/a…
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@MattCASmithSep 14
It's impossible to know what to make of the AI safety push when the incentives are so skewed. In AI, events that would be an existential threat to most companies are seen as indicators of progress. mattcasmith.net/2026/09/13/a…
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gabe
@allgarbledSep 10
Bro, just use the passkey. It’s in the magic link. It’s in your authenticator app. We sent you a code. It’s 2FA with your phone and yubikey. It’s face id. It’s sign in with SSO. Just enable touch id. Do you want to stay signed in? (we’ll log you out anyways)
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@MattCASmithSep 6
PlayStation fans face a hard decision when the PS6 arrives. As Sony drops discs and locks in the idea of digital games as temporary licences, is a console that supports only a transient game library worth the investment? mattcasmith.net/2026/09/06/s…
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@MattCASmithAug 30
Some thoughts about optimism, and why relentless self-belief is usually more beneficial than worry or caution – even if you have to force it. mattcasmith.net/2026/08/30/r…

Optimism isn't naive – pessimism is just the easy option | MattCASmith

As long as you've prepared for the challenge ahead, try to be relentlessly optimistic about your chances of success. There's no downside to absolute belief in yourself, and worry can become a...

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kache
@yacineMTBAug 28
the amount of compute left on the table by inefficient programming is shocking
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@s8mbAug 26
Just as products "on sale" should have to be sold at the non-sale price for some extended period of time, call centres claiming to be facing "a higher volume of calls than usual" should be able to point to the time when they were NOT facing this supposedly higher volume of calls.
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@MattCASmithAug 23
From the CEO who once drove a forklift to game developers taking 250,000 photos of New York, real experience beats abstraction every time, and can make the difference between good and groundbreaking. mattcasmith.net/2026/08/23/n…

There's no substitute for real-world experience | MattCASmith

From the CEO who once drove a forklift to game developers taking 250,000 photos of New York, real experience beats abstraction every time, and can make the difference between good and groundbreaking.

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Paul Graham
@paulgAug 21
The way to win at capitalism is to focus on what it actually does (make customers' lives better) rather than the socialist caricature of it (squeeze every penny out of them). The latter gets you 2x returns at best, whereas making new things for people can get you 10x.
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