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Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
Think about how you use the web today: chances are, many of you spend the majority of your time on a handful of websites and apps owned by big companies like Meta and Condé Nast. Meta makes an absolute killing on advertising that can reach highly specific target markets, and they wouldn't be able to do that without using your personal data and browsing habits to label your user account with things they think you like. I’d like to point you towards Maggie Appleton’s excellent talk The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI which goes into this in a little more detail and offers some food for thought that may give you indigestion.
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