Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
And there's what I consider a magical equation. A group that has long-term commitment to it, has two things true about it. That every member feels like they're valuably contributing to the group, and that the group feels like it's valuably contributing to the member.” (Art of Gathering)
The underlying question has to do with our vision for human flourishing: What is the good that we are after? If our vision for human flourishing is to optimize the self as a node in the technologized market network and serve that system to become efficient consumers and producers, the tools that help you get there are of a certain sort. But if... See more
Substack • Achieving Independence for the Sake of Mutual Interdependence
a post-national ruling class that regards itself as the civilized minority and defines itself against a backward majority. The backwardness of the demos lies precisely in its susceptibility to “love of one’s own,” as against the humanitarian’s principled preference for what is Other.
Matthew B. Crawford • Love of one's own
Aristotle, and the Stoic thinkers as well, refer to civic friendship, and this offers a clue about how to think about the common good. The adage “friends have all things in common” may refer to a community of material property (as in “the commons”), but more fundamentally it refers to the experience of inhabiting a common lifeworld, and the mutual... See more
Love of one's own
Expertise isn’t just another word for education—it captures the specialized knowledge required for specific tasks within an occupation, regardless of formal credentials.
Beyond Job Displacement: How AI Could Reshape the Value of Human Expertise — Digitalist Papers
Popularity is not always a measure of merit, and, in any case, it is not static. What people click—and what they think they like—is largely a matter of what is available to them. Publics are made and maintained, not discovered preformed, like rock formations.
Becca Rothfeld • The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
A newspaper is—or ought to be—the opposite of an algorithm, a bastion of enlightened generalism in an era of hyperspecialization and personalized marketing. It assumes that there is a range of subjects an educated reader ought to know about, whether she knows that she ought to know about them or not. Maybe she would prefer to scroll through the... See more
Becca Rothfeld • The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post
Make America Great Again is nostalgia! It’s policy nostalgia for a world that no longer exists - manufacturing jobs, single-income households, pensions, and thriving local economics. The genius/horror of MAGA is it correctly diagnoses that material participation has been destroyed, but the “solution” is impossible because you can’t restore material... See more