Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
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Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
But from the late 1970s to the late 1990s, the frequency of hosting friends for parties, games, dinners, and so on declined by 45 percent, according to data that Robert Putnam gathered.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
The middle ring is key to social cohesion, Dunkelman said. Families teach us love, and tribes teach us loyalty. The village teaches us tolerance. Imagine that a local parent disagrees with you about affirmative action at a PTA meeting.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
The middle ring are so-called “weak ties”
Beauty = Intent + Craft
Epley sees the exponential growth of AI companions as a real possibility. “You can set them up to never criticize you, never cheat on you, never have a bad day and insult you, and to always be interested in you.” Unlike the most patient spouses, they could tell us that we’re always right. Unlike the world’s best friend, they could instantly respond... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Frictionless everything is another manifestation of the tyranny of convenience.
Convenience becomes more appealing as the bigger stuff in life (career, health, etc) become harder. That’s why it is an inverted function…the more difficult the big things are, the more appealing convenience and frictionless in everything else becomes.
Duolingo Duel - My intense weekend of Duolingo competition with some random dude
“Friday comes and I decide that beating Harrow984306 in the Duolingo Silver League was going to become my life’s mission. Figuring out my future could wait. I had a league to win.
I proceeded to barrel through more lessons fast and furious. I learned colors, questions,
... See more“In design meetings with developers and architects, you have to assure everybody that there will be space for a wall-mounted flatscreen television in every room,” he said. “It used to be ‘Let’s make sure our rooms have great light.’ But now, when the question is ‘How do we give the most comfort to the most people?,’ the answer is to feed their... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
“I have no liking for the throne we have assigned ourselves by declaring that we are beloved children of God and lords of the universe.”
-Trembling, 21 April 2018
“Men have always been jealous of that experience which is ours alone, and often dreamed—in myths, in certain rites—of forms of male pregnancy. Not only that: they immediately appropriated conception and birth metaphorically. They conceive ideas, give birth to works. And they have convinced us that since we already have the animal prerogative of
... See moreBut he found that two of the most important factors were by then ubiquitous technologies: the automobile and the television set.