Ben Cuan
@bencuan
trying to understand the internet
Ben Cuan
bencuan.me
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.”
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
Back in the 2000s, a lot of blogs were about blogs , about blogging. If that sounds exhaustingly meta, well, yes — but it was also SUPER generative. When the thing can describe itself, when it becomes the natural place to discuss and debate itself, I am telling you: some flywheel gets spinning, and powerful things start to happen.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
What is research taste?
A particularly important and fuzzy type of skill is called research taste. I basically think of this as the bundle of intuitions you get with enough research experience that let you do things like come up with good ideas, predict if an idea is promising, have conviction in good research directions, etc. Check out my post on... See more
A particularly important and fuzzy type of skill is called research taste. I basically think of this as the bundle of intuitions you get with enough research experience that let you do things like come up with good ideas, predict if an idea is promising, have conviction in good research directions, etc. Check out my post on... See more
Vercel Security Checkpoint
Two steps! The first step is totally meaningless. You can have one good day and sink back into your old patterns like it’s nothing. You need 2 good days, 2 good days in a row. Then you have something to lose, something worth defending. You have a trend, you’re going somewhere, dim light peers through that great scrim.
Psychokinetics • Psychokinetics
I want a new internet, one that feels like ours.
Spencer • our internet [tiny internets 01]
