Brandon Marcus
@brandonjmarc
Brandon Marcus
Archedelia | Matthew B. Crawford | Substack
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Organizations as Ecosystems — Behzod
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The story of modernity is the story of the development of social technologies that are alien to small scale community, but that can handle complexity far better. Like the individual cells of a slime mold, the myriads of pre-modern local markets congealed into a vast amorphous entity, the market system. State bureaucracies morphed into systems of ru... See more
Henry Farrell • Shoggoths Amongst Us
To the extent that writing creates a form of non-biological memory — an external system for storing symbolic information — to roughly the same extent, I think, many forms of AI constitute forms of non-biological attention, external systems for selecting, ranking, filtering, and reweaving fields of information around what's salient or important.
Jac Mullen • Attention Machines and Future Politics
We do good work for those who are doing good work in the world.
That sort of positioning feels good and it resonates with many prospective clients (and your team), but there are two problems with it:
There are a thousand firms claiming that space, and thus it has become a distinction without a difference.
It's a positioning built on an affinity (or so... See more
That sort of positioning feels good and it resonates with many prospective clients (and your team), but there are two problems with it:
There are a thousand firms claiming that space, and thus it has become a distinction without a difference.
It's a positioning built on an affinity (or so... See more
Just a moment...
B Lab Global Site
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We could understand a story as simply a series of such expectation/resolution moments.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Complication resolution. Only trouble is interesting. Why pay attention to somebody who’s content, who has no reason to act, no challenge to meet and nothing to teach us about coping with the world. Resolution is the ultimate aim of every story. The resolution releases, the dramatic tension created as the protagonist struggles with the complication
... See moreA sympathetic character who drives the story forward is the protagonist. The protagonist is an active player who takes action to achieve a desire, overcoming antagonist or solve a problem. The protagonist is the person who makes things happen. Storycraft.