Brandon Marcus

Our distractions are shrinking the dimensions of our interiority.

The temptation of the age of data, again, is to believe that any coherent narrative path that can be charted through the data has a claim to truth.

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Flirting isn’t limited to romance. Flirting is an attitude that only playful and happy people can have and enjoy. It’s the virtue of being uncommitted—to people, to philosophies, to bets. Flirting turns uncertainty, something we usually fear, into pleasure.

It’s being able to take yourself less seriously. It’s being able to react to... See more

The fact and the book are inextricably linked. The printed word is a “mechanism ... to irreversibly capture accuracy.”

The modern fact is what you get when you put experience on trial. And the fact-making deed is the social process that converts an experience into a thing that can be ported from one place to another, put on a bookshelf, neatly aggregated or re-arranged with others.

Social media platforms didn’t just change where we get our information; they changed who does the work of evaluating it. The assessment labor that used to be performed by trained professionals at institutional scale has been pushed onto each of us as individuals, without the training or tools those professionals relied on.

Learning to live together in truth even when the fact has lost its power is perhaps the most serious moral challenge of the twenty-first century.

The AI industry is telling a story about the future of work that goes roughly like this: automate what can be automated, augment what remains, and trust that the productivity gains will compound into a wealthier, more efficient world.

The Social Edge Framework tells a different story. It says: the intelligence we are automating was never ours alone.... See more