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What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
by Carlos A. Gomez-Uribe and Neil Hunt.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
The kind of culture that the algorithmic ecosystem ends up promoting is that widest possible average. It’s the stuff that avoids alienating people, keeps you engaged as much as possible, even if that engagement is very shallow. It’s fundamentally scalable, to use the horrible Silicon Valley word.
Whereas, I think, historically, the culture that we p
... See more‘The Ezra Klein Show’ • Opinion | How to Discover Your Own Taste - The New York Times
So, is Jacobs right to say that baseball was better when we knew less about it? And here we are at the crux of the issue from another angle: how is the goodness of the game measured and accounted for? Or, more to the point, can the goodness of the game be measured? If not, then in what would the goodness of the game consist? And, an equally interes... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
How can we reclaim data as a tool for clarity instead of submitting to its chaos?... See more
Just because we can measure everything doesn't mean we should. Digital media gave way to instant metrics which led to instant expectations on results but a CTR, a bounce rate, or even a conversion doesn’t always tell the whole story. The obsession with short-term, ea