Tech and Society

"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP

I used to be much more of a technological determinist, where I believed that the course of history would play out according to what was technologically possible, and that technology shapes our world in a strong way. I've come to appreciate that culture actually plays such a large role in shaping our world. The ways in which people decide to use... See more

I felt like a sucker, not just for playing someone else's game, but for playing it under the guise of making the world a better place. Not only had we not conceivably accomplished much of any good, we'd arguably made things worse in granting legitimacy to a crypto trading protocol that abetted financial mania. It's actually laughable in hindsight –... See more