conor davidson is a tech lead at sanctuary computer and MC’d chinatownJS talk night i went to. super cool guy, his experience is aspirational :O
Our search for solutions should begin with the binary thinking that is at the heart of the problem. Psychologists suggest that we can mitigate binary thinking by developing cognitive flexibility — that is, engaging with the complexity and variability of real life by taking into account multiple points of view. This is part of what we call empathy.
Selfhood in humans is not the expression of any central unity. We are programmed to perceive identity in ourselves, when in truth there is only change, We are hardwired for the illusion of self.
- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die
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
Everyone knows that tech needs to figure out how to fix the city and fix America. Take, for example, the young entrepreneur in my story above. Or the next one three weeks later. Or the dozens of other friends who have compressed their political ambitions into the shape of business projects. All of them want to see the ecosystem of tech... See more
If you’ve been encouraged to define a healthy life as a frictionless one, I think it may be inevitable that a life devoid of contact starts to feel like healing.
When you read biographies of ppl who managed to be highly innovative for a long time, they seem to very radically not optimize in the short term—forgoing obviously lucrative and high status opportunities to do weird stuff that goes nowhere.