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We have a moral responsibility to shape the world with specific, defensible ideas that we believe in. Call it definite optimism, reclaiming agency, or finding your life's work. Building a great business, rallying a network, fostering a community – they all require redirecting collective attention. The technologist's job is not to redirect worship t... See more
When confronted with systems of control which are incapable of generating within themselves the necessary conditions for meaningful change to occur, it is necessary to reach outside them in order to find a source of novelty and strangeness sufficiently powerful to spin the system into a new configuration. As we have seen, this novelty and strangene
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And now, perhaps for just a brief moment, there’s a chance to take back agency and go within.
The self-publishing revolution gave everyone a chance to write a blog, publish a book or record a song. A few took advantage of this to build ideas optimized to go across space or time. Most people, though, sank back into long-trained rhythms and simply bec
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