Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
It is actually a story we in the news media find dispiritingly familiar: the collapse of your business comes not when nobody is interested in your domain, but when interest is high yet you can't make the numbers work. As with the death of print media, the death of photography – not just analogue photography but also high-end digital, where profits... See more
Our 'Kodak moments' – and creativity – are gone | Jason Farago
That experiment failed. Humanity does not want to be a global hive mind. We are not rational Bayesian updaters who will eventually reach agreement; when we receive the same information, it tends to polarize us rather than unite us. Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn’t take you out of your filter bubble — it makes... See more
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
- Research as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts . It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now ? It’s fine, and maybe even better, if the topic isn’t explicitly intellectual or academic in nature. And if one topic leads you to another topic that seems totally unrelated, that’s something to get excited
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
DHS has grown into a monster that is massively expensive, incredibly ineffective, and reliably destructive of basic civil liberties. It's time to abolish it and replace it with fewer, smaller, and more accountable agencies.
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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