On Information
the past, present, and future of how we find, monetize, and relate to information.
by sari and · updated 6d ago
On Information
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The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
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the more energy you spend worrying about things outside of your control the less energy you have for creative output within your control.
to find value in a world overflowing with distractions, we have to ruthlessly ignore much of what we see.
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"Authorship"-in the sense we know it today, individual intellectual effort related to the book as an economic commodity-was practically unknown before the advent of print technology. Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the "books" they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own. They were a humble
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- it’s because we have generated a cult of experts that we have been subjected to the podcastization of all knowledge. If you “dialogue with the experts” in the right way, it’s as if the knowledge magically becomes yours.
We have begun treating knowledge in an acquisitive way , as if the more little tidbits one knows, the more intelligent one isfrom There Are No More Hedgehogs by Luke Burgis
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The information in your news feeds is curated for interest or surprise. As such, the news is not a record of the ordinary but the extraordinary—a reflection not of reality but of precisely that which is uncharacteristic of reality.
-Gurwinder
sari added 5mo ago
- But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isn’t even the biggest problem. It’s the digital ecosystem’s insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.
Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to comme... See morefrom Questions and Cancers by Joe Maceda
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