Matt Webb
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
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Fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment; it is also the accumulation of time expended.
fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment, it is also the accumulation of time.
interconnected.orgSaid 18 Sept 2026This on korrents
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A great actor is not merely pretending but shapeshifting into another self.
But the difference between great acting and school acting is not merely a matter of magnitude. It is something else entirely: the true actor is a shapeshifter.
interconnected.orgSaid 4 Sept 2026This on korrents
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From one piece Running my second marathon as a hollow man 2 beliefs · interconnected.org
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I am inclined to see myself as a loose jumble of barely intelligent parts and looping processes with the illusion of coherent subjectivity.
Running my second marathon as a hollow maninterconnected.org
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Fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment; it is also the accumulation of time expended.Their words
fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment, it is also the accumulation of time.
Running my second marathon as a hollow maninterconnected.org
4 September
From one piece Harry Potter again again 2 beliefs · interconnected.org
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A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new.Their words
To make the series is a bonfire of human creative effort, think of what could have been done instead.
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But the difference between great acting and school acting is not merely a matter of magnitude. It is something else entirely: the true actor is a shapeshifter.
28 August
From one piece New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weather 3 beliefs · interconnected.org
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cognitively it does seem more straightforward to take action by iterated adjustments based on a vector rather than deciphering an absolute value at every tick.
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The growing abundance of personal, vibe-coded apps needs a protocol for discovering and sharing them.Their words
There needs to be a protocol for discovering and sharing this new abundance of apps
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Software has changed forever. We need more APIs (like WeatherKit) and underlying reliable databases with high-level operators (like whatever powers Photos or Reminders) and identity/permissions/etc, and that's what an OS will have to include in the future.
21 August
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Offloading thinking to AI tools does not stop a person from learning; it can push them to learn more.Their words
So learning doesn't stop just because I outsource a bunch of thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more. I like that as an outcome.
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From one piece Filtered for some poetry in modern English 2 beliefs · interconnected.org
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I realise now that the original Odyssey is only kinda about the journey and is actually about a homecoming.
Filtered for some poetry in modern Englishinterconnected.org
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Rendering ancient poetry in the English style of centuries past adds nothing over translating it into modern English.Their words
I don't think it adds anything to ancient translated text to have to wade through how people wrote two centuries ago.
Filtered for some poetry in modern Englishinterconnected.org
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From one piece AI alignment is a red herring 2 beliefs · interconnected.org
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We don't need to align the coming AGI. We need a whole population of intelligent-as-possible AGIs with competing interests.
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My contention is that alignment is a red herring, and perhaps we shouldn't bother working on it so hard.
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Apple does an incredible job keeping people current, and you can see why they hold back emoji for major releases of iOS to nudge people over the line.
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Korrents What they believe 13 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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Fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment; it is also the accumulation of time expended.
fatigue does not always feel fatiguing in the moment, it is also the accumulation of time.
Running my second marathon as a hollow man Said 18 Sept 2026
A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity.
I am inclined to see myself as a loose jumble of barely intelligent parts and looping processes with the illusion of coherent subjectivity.
Running my second marathon as a hollow man Said 18 Sept 2026
A great actor is not merely pretending but shapeshifting into another self.
But the difference between great acting and school acting is not merely a matter of magnitude. It is something else entirely: the true actor is a shapeshifter.
Harry Potter again again Said 4 Sept 2026
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A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new.
To make the series is a bonfire of human creative effort, think of what could have been done instead.
Harry Potter again again Said 4 Sept 2026
Future operating systems will need to provide reliable APIs, high-level database operators, and identity/permissions infrastructure as core services.
Software has changed forever. We need more APIs (like WeatherKit) and underlying reliable databases with high-level operators (like whatever powers Photos or Reminders) and identity/permissions/etc, and that's what an OS will have to include in the future.
New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weather Said 28 Aug 2026
The growing abundance of personal, vibe-coded apps needs a protocol for discovering and sharing them.
There needs to be a protocol for discovering and sharing this new abundance of apps
New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weather Said 28 Aug 2026
Taking action through iterated adjustments based on a trend is cognitively easier than interpreting an absolute value at each moment.
cognitively it does seem more straightforward to take action by iterated adjustments based on a vector rather than deciphering an absolute value at every tick.
New app: Yesterday, an iPhone app for yesterday’s weather Said 28 Aug 2026
Offloading thinking to AI tools does not stop a person from learning; it can push them to learn more.
So learning doesn't stop just because I outsource a bunch of thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more. I like that as an outcome.
Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode Said 21 Aug 2026
Rendering ancient poetry in the English style of centuries past adds nothing over translating it into modern English.
I don't think it adds anything to ancient translated text to have to wade through how people wrote two centuries ago.
Filtered for some poetry in modern English Said 15 Aug 2026
The Odyssey is fundamentally a story about a homecoming rather than a journey.
I realise now that the original Odyssey is only kinda about the journey and is actually about a homecoming.
Filtered for some poetry in modern English Said 15 Aug 2026
AI alignment is a red herring not worth the effort currently devoted to it.
My contention is that alignment is a red herring, and perhaps we shouldn't bother working on it so hard.
AI alignment is a red herring Said 8 Aug 2026
Preventing a rogue AGI requires a population of competing AGIs with conflicting interests, not alignment of any single AGI.
We don't need to align the coming AGI. We need a whole population of intelligent-as-possible AGIs with competing interests.
AI alignment is a red herring Said 8 Aug 2026
Apple does an excellent job of keeping users on the latest iOS version, in part by holding back new emoji until major releases to nudge people into updating.
Apple does an incredible job keeping people current, and you can see why they hold back emoji for major releases of iOS to nudge people over the line.
If you have a Poem/1, pls run this firmware update Said 1 Aug 2026
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Disliked iPhone 5S
I was debating the 5S but seeing it in person I had a strong adverse reaction to its fussiness. It’s all edges and lines!
usesthis.com 27 Nov 2013
Liked Sony NEX-5N
My camera: Sony NEX-5N with the pancake kit lens so it fits in the front pocket of my bag. Plus: no zoom. Less to think about.
usesthis.com 27 Nov 2013
Loved iPhone 5C
The 5C? A gorgeous object, a great frame for iOS 7 – easier to hold too and less fragile.
usesthis.com 27 Nov 2013
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Uses Little Printer
Where they publish
Blog interconnected.org Interconnected, his blog since 2000.
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- forging an oracle 16 Oct 2026
- first time using decision models in anger in a moderate volume training pipeline: jev beats gpt-6-luna for quality in a head-to-head (both compared against an LLM benchmark using opus) 16 Oct 2026
- Any strong recommendations for a project tracking tool? Love Linear for product/eng. Projects, teams, issues and sub-issues (for named tasks) + GitHub integration But we have core team + many collaborators so the pricing model doesn’t make sense (we want to also coordination on manufacturing, content etc) Anything have that Linear quality + guests who can be named as issue owner? Looking at Clickup, Asana, Monday dev — don’t want anything too sprawling Ideas? 15 Oct 2026
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- Read the Narnia books dozens of times since I was a kid, and this was NOT what I was expecting… …but I am here for it V hard to adapt Narnia without it turning into an English period piece, and the cosmic/1970s resonance is so apt. Exciting 14 Oct 2026
- Building a proof of concept LLM worm was my back-up idea for @sarahdrinkwater’s AI hackathon in April 2023 Felt trivial with the then-new ReAct paper (precursor to today’s agents). Mapped out the approach Didn’t build it, decided not to write it up for safety reasons. Instead built a working “agents IRL” demo, won a couple awards, now have a startup doing it for real. Better outcome. 13 Oct 2026
- Blogged some thoughts about New Math 10 Oct 2026 interconnected.org
- Who are all these people on TV. Avg 5 people in a scene, people can work 8 hours a day, market for jobs is 15 people, say 21 if they need weekend breaks. Yet when I watch TV there are probably dozens of different people, woefully inefficient. 9 Oct 2026
- trying to figure out some consequential db architecture get the agent to explore UX implications by wire-framing user flows for the golden path and a half dozen other scenarios (using tldraw offline) make decision. this loop used to take >1 week. 9 Oct 2026
- I still dream of scalding egg fried rice in the dark and the rain 8 Oct 2026
- thanks for the convo here trying bb-app plus tailscale -- looking good so far 8 Oct 2026
- What’s everyone using as a Claude Code multiplexer these days? I ❤️ Conductor for the workspaces, UI layout, and clear left-hand nav But 50% of my dev has to be local because of tool chains and hardware-in-the-loop And I am badly missing remote control… Pointers? 7 Oct 2026
- life advice: have friends who send you a calendar invite to go to the pub when you're not responding on the chat 6 Oct 2026
- Mind blown that Titanic and Terminator are basically the same movie 6 Oct 2026
- Tavus is not a British company, right? It's in SF. What are the semiotics of this specific British accent for folks in the Bay Area? Like, I hear this voice every day... but what does it mean for you? 2 Oct 2026
- free product idea: AirPods that use their sensors to detect the ASMR response, then dial in to relentlessly trigger it 24/7. new alternative to noise cancelling mode 2 Oct 2026
- word on the street is that true rads is the new squircle 1 Oct 2026
- ooooookay, time to put some more resolution on what we're building at @inanimate_tech bringing up a new consumer electronics co is, uh, a ton of work so we're building a range of limited-edition WORKS to bring our ideas in the world. this isn't a launch. just another step along the way. but it's one close to my heart because we have pinned down the 5 product archetypes that we're building -- and we describe them here can't wait to share our new platform, interactions and industrial design with you in coming weeks and months... 29 Sept 2026
- New blog post: trying to figure out what makes me uneasy about the fruit fly demos, and perhaps inventing new prayers would help 28 Sept 2026
- My obsession with product form 25 Sept 2026
- And so to Brighton — and victory 25 Sept 2026
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- Blogged some thoughts about New Math 10 Oct 2026 interconnected.org
- I won’t spam all the vids here, but if you want to see what I’m building then here’s the latest on Insta — follow to see concepts turn into industrial design (warning you’ll get a lot of my face and a bunch of design rambling) www.instagram.com/reel/DeKYFw_...  6 Oct 2026
- I ran my second marathon last weekend but my write-up went a bit weird, sorry 18 Sept 2026 interconnected.org
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- Oh time thy pyramids. 4 Sept 2026
- This green arrow points directly at the central black hole of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away Galactic Compass 2, now available on the App Store 21 Aug 2026 apps.apple.com
- chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis 17 Aug 2026 gregegan.net
- blogged a few bits of poems I like over the weekend 17 Aug 2026 interconnected.org
- Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here 13 Aug 2026
- my hunch is that AI alignment is a red herring, and the way to protect against a crazy powerful AGI mulching the earth into infinite paperclips is to release ANOTHER crazy powerful AGI that will hopefully stop it blog post: 11 Aug 2026 interconnected.org
- Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how) 26 Jul 2026
- finally updated braggoscope.com with ways to listen to In Our Time outside the UK 26 Jul 2026
- I need a macroeconomist to explain this to me: I don't get why the govt council house building programme is a "cost" that needs to be budgeted for cash is converted into an asset: housing. it's moving numbers around on the balance sheet. the govt still has the asset, can still borrow against it 24 Jul 2026
- Remember when you could pay like $20 and a goat would join your zoom call? I don’t think we talk enough about how weird it all got in covid 23 Jul 2026
- Pleased that UK govt has scrapped the single digital ID scheme. IMO: illiberal and a single point of failure Instead: create a wallet of the various IDs we use — council tax per household, road tax per car, NHS per patient The only place they should connect is my private phone 21 Jul 2026
- went spelunking the sci-fi stacks for voice UI that is NOT general purpose and here's what I found (new blog post) 13 Jul 2026 interconnected.org
- Weirdly this is one of my top blog posts ever 13 Jul 2026
- I’m on the orange site 3 Jul 2026
- this is awesome ben brown used Resident to vibe code his new ESP32 watch best quote: > this thing starts off with nothing and you just wish your features into being one by one 30 Jun 2026 youtube.com
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