is this true?
nostalgia is the enemy of progress
A lot of advancements in tech have been due to the nostalgia for imagined futures. A bit of time hopping if you will… Is it really the enemy of progress? Do I not what nostalgia actually means?
Text is the most flexible communication technology. Pictures may be worth a thousand words, when there's a picture to match what you're trying to say. But let's hit the random button on wikipedia and pick a sentence, see if you can draw a picture to convey it, mm? Here:
"Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of
As a designer I'm conflicted, what the author says here is true to a degree but text is an image too no? Are symbols not images?
“People perform to the degree of inspection, not expectation."
This is why curation is underrated – not because it is actually better than algorithmic suggestions, but because it is perceived as being better.
Julian Lehr • What Shopify and Amazon can learn from Mimetic Theory
What relevance does knowledge of our perception making us believe curation is better than the algo have on our preferences? Knowing this doesn’t change my preference for curation over the algo.
Is it possible to change that perception? we already trust computers for certain information and data inputs, how close are we to computers overtaking human taste?
Is this the Matrix? Am I in it right now?
Kenny Shopsin "You're Not That Terrific"
youtube.comI’m not sure how I feel about this. I’m 90% there. What’s holding me back?
My pet theory around why business is gets done so much faster in China: because there is only one channel for everything — WeChat. No confusion about how to get in contact with someone. One scrollback to WeChat makes it easy to introduce friends to each other. Voice and video calls just work. And because the default is chat, not email, everyone... See more
Eric Migicovsky • The Universal Communication Bus
A universal communication bus in theory does sound like the answer to solving major productivity and workflow gaps. Is this true for WeChat’s influence in China?
Second, yes, trotting out national service as a solution to this or that social ailment has become a cliché. But a true national-service program would yield substantial benefits. Raj Chetty and his colleagues have found that cross-class friendships—relationships between people from different economic strata—powerfully boost social mobility. Making... See more
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
It’s the specificity and honesty of Wall-E’s life that makes him so appealing.