Indians optimize for control while Americans optimize for convenience
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Indians optimize for control while Americans optimize for convenience
Up to a point, swapping autonomy for ease is a pretty good trade: who wants to run the math on their accounting books or call the restaurant to place a delivery order? But if taken too far, convenience becomes a Trojan Horse. We cede too much control and become dependent on something we can no longer steer. Platforms that promised to bring convenie... See more
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
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Lastly, I realize that not every company is a technology company. Centralization is necessary for some hardline and service industries, and that won’t change because of better remote work tooling. However, the technology industry is subsuming many legacy industries (e.g. big box retail, movie theaters, financial services).
Alex Taussig • Firehose #168: 🏙 Urban flight. 🏙
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The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an uncertain future are in opposition to each other. Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory.
Mandy Brown • Against Optimization
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Allow me to pair this line of thought with an observation Chris Gilliard made a couple of months ago regarding an app that promises to “take care of your meals each week with increasing relevancy and minimal input from the user.” “Really weird,” Gilliard noted, “how tech companies are all promising to offload your decision making so you can ha
... See moretheconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
If you assume that the pace of change in consumer-facing Internet stays high, and that it gets more compelling over time, then in the long run the only options are a) be careful what you use, or b) accept that you're outsourcing a growing share of your decisions to product managers and growth hackers who do not necessarily have your interests at he... See more
Byrne Hobart • The Promise and Paradox of Decentralization
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- Have technology as the central pillar of their strategy and culture
Nikhil Krishnan • Things I’m Thinking About In Healthcare Part 2
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They decide to introduce a technology if they find that it strengthens their families and communities
David Perell • Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future
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