The Ungated Manifesto
Google changed the world with the realization that even though the crowd’s online content was uncontrolled, it wasn’t disorganized. It, in fact, had an extremely elaborate and fine-grained structure, but not one that was consciously decided on by any core group of humans. Instead, it was a structure that emerged from
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
But the gift of the Web wasn’t only informational: by its very existence it gave us new tools to identify and understand networks themselves.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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drive.google.comPut more directly, The Pattern is partly about the systems we live in, partly about our innate drive to fit in, compete, and seek status, and partly about wanting to feel secure in increasingly complex, chaotic world.
Ungated • The Ungated Manifesto
Building the Mind Monopoly
Nir Eyal • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
The algorithm is God,”