Chad Aaron Hall

This, if you think about it, is similar to the impact of automation work we’ve seen elsewhere. Assembly lines took away the fun parts of craftsmanship regarding building a beautiful finished product. Even before that, machine tools took that away more from the machinist. Algorithmic management of warehouses in Amazon does this.

The United States—which as of 2011 had the highest first-day infant death rate in the industrialized world124—might succumb to autism, becoming a cautionary example for other countries. The autism rate here has doubled an average of every five years since 1970. At this rate, the majority of American boys will be autistic by 2036, and by around 2045... See more

Thus, it has been proposed that evaluating high- and low-quality artwork is an emotional, intuitive process, which is often undertaken without deliberation by lay viewers (Dijkstra et al., 2012; Leder et al., 2004). Within the art evaluation paradigm described above (Dijkstra et al., 2012), greater discrimination in the evaluation of high- and... See more

I wanted Perfectly Imperfect to be an antidote to everything getting homogenized by Spotify playlists, Netflix suggestions, and social media, and help people discover new things outside of their bubble. I think there’s a real lack of pure and honest curation from regular human beings, not algorithms, referral-link-laced listicles, or “influencers.”