Andrei Stoica

I also love how FLORA describes what kind of company it is towards the end of the manifesto.

Founded out of an art & technology graduate program called NYU ITP, FLORA is an applied HCI company with a mission to make it possible to speak your ideas into existence, with a high degree of creative control.

“...an applied HCI company...”

A year or two... See more

As Governance is downstream of Culture, I think it’s important (and obvious) to recognize the way we talk about politics is in fact a cultural issue. One that has been in semantic slide for quite some time. We not only need to increase the amount of ideas that we have today to fix our culture, but we have to be brave enough to challenge underlying... See more

I just don’t think it has done journalism much good to have a group of people specifically designated as misinformation experts or fact-checkers — that should be everyone’s job. And although I don’t really trust Zuckerberg’s motivations, it was fact-checkers who pressured Facebook for the partnership in the first place, not the other way around.... See more

As I’ve written before, when we expand a technology we expand it towards both the divine and the profane. But it is up to us to both define that which is divine/profane — instead of a broad acceptance of the profane as “just another use case that we can’t avoid”.

Dijkstra said: “Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

Interestingly, Hoffer also makes the repeated but less emphasized point that creative people— fulfilled creative people; Hitler was not alone among Nazi leadership in being a failed, frustrated artist—are less prone to subsume themselves in mass movements. Not because fulfilled creative people are smarter or more successful or wiser, but because... See more