How to Be Invisible
summary
Sarah Tavel’s minutes versus dollars framing anchors a set of concrete experiments: an image app show and hide that analyzes pixels not filters, with a hand‑written algorithm optimized until sliders update full‑size images in real time; a B2B location product that pushes background updates and eventually reaches about 12 hours of battery on high accuracy; desktop laser cutter software that replaces manual calibration with image recognition; behavioral wins from chatbots and the risk of building digital crack instead of usefulness.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 5:45MAKE COMPLEX PROCESSES SIMPLE
- 14:27SHOW DECISIONS NOT DATA
- 15:39WHAT SHOULD I DO?
- 16:52ELIMINATE COMPROMISE
- 17:23slack
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