Remind me Often
“the idea that we need to overcome failings of humanness by becoming objective, every thing created fairly, equally... It’s getting rid of passion, of all the things we’re told are primitive and it scares me.”
Terry Gilliam
Are we focusing on the wrong thing?
It's just different flavors of how human values, such as dignity and decency, lose out once they are pulled down to the arena of the market—Marx's crippled monstrosity.
Is it just me?
“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
354 / Design’s reckoning: who really pays?
Did they have to turn into a panopticon, where each of us is prisoner and guard simultaneously?
Be more authentic
People underestimate how big crypto will be, but overestimate how fast we will get there.
Investing
Streaks, of course, have the wonderful quality of being unbounded. You can maintain as many streaks as you like. If you don't think social capital has value, you've never seen, as I have, a young person sobbing over having to go on vacation without their phone, or to somewhere without cell or wifi access, only to see all their streaks broken. Some... See more
Remains of the Day • Status as a Service
Facebook, with its explicit attachment to the real world graph and its enforcement of a single public identity, is just a poor structural fit for the more complex social capital requirements of the young.