Adam Singer
@adamsinger.bsky.social
Tech VP, music composer, blogger since 2004 (join us: https://adamsinger.substack.com/welcome)
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Hard to believe that a few years ago there was genuine mainstream discourse about tech companies shifting to 4-day work weeks while today companies are bragging about “AI productivity gains” yet it’s all about 996.
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hard to believe that a few years ago there was genuine mainstream discourse about tech companies shifting to 4-day work weeks while today companies are bragging about “AI productivity gains” yet it’s all about 996.
Appreciate @profgalloway.com's ongoing effort to reach out to young men. If more of us don't do this there will just become more groypers and other extremists youtu.be/fcjmd_ClJJo?...
Scott Galloway - Empathy for Men Is Not a Zero-Sum Game in "Notes on Being a Man" | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Appreciate @profgalloway.com's ongoing effort to reach out to young men. If more of us don't do this there will just become more groypers and other extremists youtu.be/fcjmd_ClJJo?...
Good vlog www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
Why AI "Art" Feels So Wrong
YouTube video by Thomas Flight
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November 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Good vlog www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...
Someone asked my thoughts on where AI actually makes sense, so we're writing on that this week. Both the permabears and permabulls on AI are wrong, at least when it comes to creative work. More below. www.hottakes.space/p/where-does...
Where does AI actually make sense?
Someone asked me this question, so let's discuss it
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November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Someone asked my thoughts on where AI actually makes sense, so we're writing on that this week. Both the permabears and permabulls on AI are wrong, at least when it comes to creative work. More below. www.hottakes.space/p/where-does...
This week's longform idea, I'm asking you to resist slop world - save your soul before it's too late www.hottakes.space/p/resist-slo...
Resist slop world
If everything and everyone else is empty and nihilistic, it's a blue ocean to provide real heart, meaning and personality
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October 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This week's longform idea, I'm asking you to resist slop world - save your soul before it's too late www.hottakes.space/p/resist-slo...
Another attempt to try to and get everyone to talk to each other - why not? Discussion is good. Obviously with people who mean well, and I think that's most of us. www.hottakes.space/p/debate-and...
Debate and disagreement are good
Free thinkers who enjoy debate and discussion are what dogmatists fear most
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October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Another attempt to try to and get everyone to talk to each other - why not? Discussion is good. Obviously with people who mean well, and I think that's most of us. www.hottakes.space/p/debate-and...
New on the blog ...I'm tired of spammers and garden variety stock promoters gaslighting us about creativity www.hottakes.space/p/you-cant-c...
You can't call people "luddites" for having taste
And anyway, all the obsession with tools is silly: amateurs obsess over tools, pros over mastery
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October 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
New on the blog ...I'm tired of spammers and garden variety stock promoters gaslighting us about creativity www.hottakes.space/p/you-cant-c...
Very much enjoyed the conversation with @ezraklein.bsky.social and Brian Eno. Worth adding to your playlist if you didn't listen www.hottakes.space/p/conversati...
Conversation with Brian Eno & Ezra Klein
A thoughtful discussion on the importance of art
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October 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Very much enjoyed the conversation with @ezraklein.bsky.social and Brian Eno. Worth adding to your playlist if you didn't listen www.hottakes.space/p/conversati...
This is a compelling read pabulummill.substack.com/p/no-one-has...
No one has their thinking cap on
Democratising creativity is a luxury belief
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October 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is a compelling read pabulummill.substack.com/p/no-one-has...
Some vibes for your Sunday soundcloud.com/adamsinger/a...
Siberian Nights [downtempo / electronica mix: 2017]
If you enjoyed this and want more, there's a handy playlist of all my mixes at: http://soundcloud.com/adamsinger/sets/adams-downtempo-mixes
Downtempo / produced mix set including artists from a varie
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October 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some vibes for your Sunday soundcloud.com/adamsinger/a...
Relevant once again this week: you can't prompt your way to meaning. AI certainly isn't useless, but I find my personal fulfillment from creative work is equal to what was sacrificed to make it. More thoughts on this topic... www.hottakes.space/p/you-cant-p...
You can't prompt your way to meaning
AI isn't useless, but personal fulfillment from creative work is equal to what was sacrificed to make it
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October 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Relevant once again this week: you can't prompt your way to meaning. AI certainly isn't useless, but I find my personal fulfillment from creative work is equal to what was sacrificed to make it. More thoughts on this topic... www.hottakes.space/p/you-cant-p...
New on the blog, the inbound marketing era is ending (free traffic & attention was fun, but the party is over) www.hottakes.space/p/the-inboun...
The inbound marketing era is ending
Free traffic and attention was a generous and fun window of time, but the party is over
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September 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
New on the blog, the inbound marketing era is ending (free traffic & attention was fun, but the party is over) www.hottakes.space/p/the-inboun...
"The web has cultivated an impatience with that weight of the past. You might even say that it conveys a hatred of the past." www.honest-broker.com/p/is-mid-20t...
Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?
They call it the "Greatest Generation"—so why is its art disappearing?
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September 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
"The web has cultivated an impatience with that weight of the past. You might even say that it conveys a hatred of the past." www.honest-broker.com/p/is-mid-20t...
This week's longform idea is on the latent cultural function of technologies www.hottakes.space/p/the-latent...
The latent cultural function of technologies
We don’t abandon the old because it’s obsolete or inefficient, it only goes away when its cultural roots dry up
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September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This week's longform idea is on the latent cultural function of technologies www.hottakes.space/p/the-latent...
People are now openly bragging about blatant AI webspam operations. It's brazenly sociopathic, and incredibly dystopian. We've actually seen this movie before www.hottakes.space/p/people-are...
People are openly bragging about AI spam operations
What stage of the cycle is this?
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September 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
People are now openly bragging about blatant AI webspam operations. It's brazenly sociopathic, and incredibly dystopian. We've actually seen this movie before www.hottakes.space/p/people-are...
New longform idea for the week: your life is only bad if you can't commit to things, and we have a crisis of commitment in modernity www.hottakes.space/p/on-commitm...
On commitment
Your life is only bad if you can't commit to things, and we have a crisis of commitment in modernity
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September 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
New longform idea for the week: your life is only bad if you can't commit to things, and we have a crisis of commitment in modernity www.hottakes.space/p/on-commitm...
What's really going on in marketing (it's actually not political, it's visceral) www.hottakes.space/p/whats-real...
What's really going on in marketing
People hate feeling like the professional managerial class is destroying the world
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August 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What's really going on in marketing (it's actually not political, it's visceral) www.hottakes.space/p/whats-real...
Fully outsourcing your writing to AI is a slow erosion of personal agency and autonomy www.hottakes.space/p/writing-is...
Writing is thinking
Fully outsourcing your writing to AI is a slow erosion of personal agency and autonomy
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August 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Fully outsourcing your writing to AI is a slow erosion of personal agency and autonomy www.hottakes.space/p/writing-is...
“ChatGPT adoption did not reduce Google Search usage….people did not substitute their typical Googling with ChatGPT-ing.
In fact, there was a slight increase in average Google Search usage after ChatGPT adoption”
Turns out, people aren't morons and know to verify what the AI says
In fact, there was a slight increase in average Google Search usage after ChatGPT adoption”
Turns out, people aren't morons and know to verify what the AI says
August 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“ChatGPT adoption did not reduce Google Search usage….people did not substitute their typical Googling with ChatGPT-ing.
In fact, there was a slight increase in average Google Search usage after ChatGPT adoption”
Turns out, people aren't morons and know to verify what the AI says
In fact, there was a slight increase in average Google Search usage after ChatGPT adoption”
Turns out, people aren't morons and know to verify what the AI says
This week's longform idea, we're talking about rarity, and how this evolutionary quirk is used to sell you expensive bags people line up to buy www.hottakes.space/p/caring-abo...
Caring about rarity is an evolutionary quirk
I don't really care about material rarity and so don't collect things or buy expensive watches, but you might - if only because you evolved to
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August 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This week's longform idea, we're talking about rarity, and how this evolutionary quirk is used to sell you expensive bags people line up to buy www.hottakes.space/p/caring-abo...
This week's longform idea, we're talking about how domesticated humans will become. I'm not the first person to ask this question, but everyone should think more about it www.hottakes.space/p/how-domest...
How domesticated will we become?
Some is actually important for society to function, but diminishing returns are real, and we don't know the line
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August 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This week's longform idea, we're talking about how domesticated humans will become. I'm not the first person to ask this question, but everyone should think more about it www.hottakes.space/p/how-domest...
welp, they've ruined microwave popcorn for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2e...
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
YouTube video by Veritasium
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July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
welp, they've ruined microwave popcorn for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2e...
New story this week, writing on the inefficient and fake market of media and influencers www.hottakes.space/p/the-ineffi...
The inefficient and fake market of media and influencers
Legacy trades are overpriced, influencers are unserious, and AI bros are building fake prestige
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July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New story this week, writing on the inefficient and fake market of media and influencers www.hottakes.space/p/the-ineffi...
This week's longform idea, we're talking about how 250K is plenty of income, you should feel rich enough on that (this would be classified as being in the .1% of global earners!) www.hottakes.space/p/250k-per-y...
250K per year is plenty of income
If you don't feel rich here, you probably never will
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July 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This week's longform idea, we're talking about how 250K is plenty of income, you should feel rich enough on that (this would be classified as being in the .1% of global earners!) www.hottakes.space/p/250k-per-y...
No new story this week, but here's 10 you might have missed www.hottakes.space/p/recent-sto...
Recent stories you might have missed
Also happy July 4th week to all - congrats, you made it halfway through the year
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July 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
No new story this week, but here's 10 you might have missed www.hottakes.space/p/recent-sto...