Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
The Top Idea in Your Mind
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For Freire, education is fundamentally about freedom, which is “not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.” An educated person is in some sense liberated from the blinkers and boundaries imposed by their social position, freeing them to... See more
Just a moment...
Taste honors someone’s standards of quality, but also the distinctive way the world bounces off a person. It reflects what they know about how the world works, and also what they’re working with in their inner worlds. When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul. This is why it is so alluring.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
"...Assembly line approach in which humans are custodians of computation is also good for knowledge work firms themselves because it makes work more predictable workers themselves become more interchangeable it is a much more ordered world of valued knowledge production. So in this context we devalue good old-fashioned hard and original thinking we
... See moreWhat information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. (Herbert A. Simon)
LLMs and information post-scarcity
LLMs and hyper-orality
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At its core, compelling narrative writing is an exercise in building empathy and helping Americans in a fractured country understand one another.
Ashley Parker • The Murder of The Washington Post
We should be worried instead about the commodification of human expertise, since expertise is what gives labor its economic value. Without it, many workers may not be able to earn good wages