Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
... See moreA POV tells employees how to act and guides their decisions. Everything a company does, day in and day out, should align with the point of view. If the POV is clear and employees buy into it, the company will practically manage itself. But that doesn't mean you can just post a POV on your website and expect it to work. Leadership has to evangelize
... See moreThe development of digital technology like this has made spectacle increasingly privatized and solitary. I think it's hard not to conclude that there is a relationship between the rise of solitude in modern life and this process of ever more specific individuation of our attention. The central source of our diversion in the attention age has grown
That digital flexibility is key to enshittification. The core mechanic of enshittification is a continuous series of adjustments to the “business logic” of a service—how much it charges, how much it pays, how it ranks search results, and so on. That’s how companies can start charging for things they once let you do for free, and how they can apply
... See moreCory Doctorow • Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
The first time we spoke, Ms. Gluesenkamp Perez brought up a term from motorcycling. Democrats, she said, had grown so obsessed with the threat of fascism that for them, it had become an “obstacle fixation” — an intense focus that causes you to end up running right into the thing you’re afraid of hitting. “You do not save democracy by running... See more
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What Hannah Arendt Proposed as an Alternative to Authenticity | Aeon Essays
Samantha Rose Hillaeon.coTaste requires experiencing the creation in its entirety and evaluating one’s own authentic emotional response to it, parsing its effect. (Taste is not passive; it requires effort.)
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Like content feed algorithms, the internet grants us the ability to segment our micro-personas into distinct identities that create and join communities with the micro-personas of others. On the internet our inner selves come alive to manifest parallel realities so powerful they’re overtaking the world that created them.