Andrew McCluskey

Decentralization is the kind of thing that only matters when troubles arise. It's like an insurance: most of the time you don't need it, but for the few times you do need it, you REALLY need it. Since we can't have "intermittent decentralization", turn it on & off with a switch, this means we need it permanently

Filtering my search for chana masala recipes by “.edu” domains, for example, may not make much intuitive sense, but does have the accidental effect of returning recipes that were not optimized within an inch of their life.

Music has no purpose, it merely brings together people’s dreams, fragilities, licentiousness and weirdness. It can bring masses of people together through that. As much as those in the underground find each other, so do the Swifties and The ARMY. Scale, here, doesn’t stop the human capacity of bonding through music and the exchange of identity.

When we are in fear mode, our capacity to understand the perspectives of those different from us shuts down. Fear primes us for self-interest.